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Fraser Island is a freak of nature. It’s just about the only place on earth that has rainforest growing out of sand, which is a neat trick when you think about it, especially given my own success in keeping cacti alive in optimally arid conditions. It’s also the world’s biggest sand island, though with all the vegetation growing out of it, you’d be hard pressed to figure that out just by looking.

It’s home to some of the purest bred dingos on the planet, and, incidentally, the optimum attack weight for a pure bred dingo is about 15 kilos. This is a fact that comes to mind when you accidentally bump into one on the beach. What also springs to mind at about the same time is the question, “what does a 15 kilo dingo actually look like?” I kept on thinking of bags of sugar, because that’s what I was told a kilo looked like when I was young. I’m pretty sure that the beast that was looking at us in a mildly curious manner was bigger than 15 bags of sugar, but then it’s always hard to tell. I mean, a humpback whale doesn’t necessarily look like it weighs the same as 4 elephants when it’s leaping out of the water like some sort of overgrown dolphin supping on too much sugar and too many e-numbers, but, you know what, it does.

Also, when a ranger helpfully tells you that the water in Lake McKenzie (which is beautiful, and is very blue indeed) is “25 degrees, like you have a bath”, he’s either talking in Kelvin or just likes really cold baths. He's probably over-excited by the lasses in bikinis, if you ask me. No wonder he needs a nice cold bath.

Finally, Kodak use more silver than anyone else in the world. You learn something new every day.