IT’S 4PM ON A FRIDAY afternoon and I’m standing in torrential rain on 75 Mile Beach on K’gari (Fraser Island), with the wind whipping sand and rain into my face. After southern Queensland’s recent deluge of rain, the water is choppy and the brown, foaming crests of the waves are tumbling along the beach. It’s like the staging of The Tempest.
In the distance, I can hear the melancholy caw of a crow as I bend, lunge, stoop and plough my way along the sand, racing against a ferocious incoming tide that threatens to swallow the rubbish that it so recently spat onto the shoreline. For all the bleakness of the moment, the fact that I’m walking alongside 25 like-minded individuals as part of an epic Eco Warrior Experience designed by K’gari Adventures and Zero Co makes us all rise to the challenge.
“Our strength
