Commando Walk at Kingfisher Bay, Fraser Island

After Cyclone Iris, at last it was almost sunny and great for a walk so Olaf, Peter, Toni and The Larry-kin walked up the beach to the old logging jetty, where the bush walk to the WWII Commando Base begins.  The size of the trees are amazing for a sand island and we saw and heard some cheerful bush birds along the track – honeyeaters, pardalotes, grey shrike-thrush and spangled drongos among them.  There are so many interesting ferns in the vine thickets and after all the rain many funghi were blooming again.

The Commando Base was a secret training camp from 1943 and even those soldiers who volunteered for the mission never knew where they were being deployed.  It could be Malaya, Singapore, New Guinea or the Phillipines and there were teams from many other countries involved.

From there the walk goes either to Lake Mackenzie or back to Kingfisher Resort, which we chose, based on the weather – whether we held our luck or it would rain again.  Before Annie collected us from the beach we had to don the sunnies, with a happy sunny end to the outing.