Rather a lot about Fraser Island, but it is rather a special place. Unusually for eastern Australia it has a nice range of pretty flowers in addition to several types of forest including pockets of rainforest, all growing on sand. Here are a few of the flowers:

 

Native Iris Patersonia sericea

 

Hairt Guinea Flower Hibbertia vestita. This gorgeous large flower lasts only a single day.

 

Unknown – the Vulcan Spirit is sinking under the weight of books, but sadly our floating library does not include anything on flowers.

 

Another unknown.

 

Probably Wallum Wedge Pea Gompholobium virgatum

 

And lastly, while photographing flowers, a real surprise:

 

 

This is a damselfly, obviously. But it caught my eye because it looks nearly identical to a British one that I know, Ischnura elegans. Amazingly (it’s that word again) it turns out that it is in fact a species of the very same genus - Ischnura heterosticta.  How on earth have two very closely related damselflies come to live 10 000 miles apart?