Lake Wabby Fraser Island

Yesterday we got to Rainbow Beach early in the morning, then had to wait a few hours before checking in. We were so tired so just slept on a sofa for a while. In the evening we had our Fraser Island briefing and got put in to A-Team.
On the way to the worlds largest sand island we were told there were big sharks and Dingo's (wild dogs …

Got up at 5:00 a.m today, made our way to the transit station for our 4WD tour of Fraser Island. Fraser Island is the largest sand Island in the world. There are only three sand Islands in the world, and they are all in Australia.

It is a two and a half hour drive to the Island, we took a barge to get on the Island and then the fun begins …

Danny hielt tatsaechlich sein Versprechen, besorgte aus Gympie eine neue Benzinpumpe, baute eine neue ein und machte damit das Auto wieder fahrtauglich. Am Dienstag morgen um 10 Uhr brachte er es uns vorbei und wir machten uns - nachdem wir in Rainbow Beach noch schnell mal ins Meer und die wirklich heftige Brandung gegangen waren, auf den Weg nach …

Fraser Island er stærsta sandeyja heims og er skráð í heimsminjasafn UNESCO. Helsta ástaæðan fyrir því er sú að upp úr sandinum vex regnskógur sem er mjög sjaldgæft en það sem sandurinn gerir er að hann virkar eins og svampur á sjóinn og vinnur úr honum drykkjarhæft ferskvatn. Á eyjunni finnast tugir ferskra stöðuvatna og fengum við að sjá nokkur …

Today we woke up at 5:45 AM because we had to catch our vehicle going to Fraser Island. We left the hotel to go the the Brisbane Transit Centre, to leave on our 2 day Fraser Island offroad tour. When we got to the transit station, we waited to leave in our 4X4 vehicle. When we left, we started making our way to Rainbow Beach, to catch the boat the …

Rainbow Beach was our first stop to take the ferry to Fraser Island. Rainbow Beach was lovely, we did a bush walk to the beach and the sand dunes, watching the sunset and chilled for a day before the Fraser Island experience - 3 days, 2 nights!

Fraser Island was AMAZZZIIINGG!!!! : ) When we arrived at our camp site, which was basically …

Get it? Laurence of Australia instead of Laurence of Arabia? Fraser Island = Sand = Arabia = Laurence = Martin. Well I liked it anyways. Sorry. Apologising at the start of a blog is never a good thing. An early start as promised. ...

... shower, and satisfied stomachs we returned to the Eastern Beach and drove southwards to Eurong, one of the few inhabited areas of Fraser Island. The village had a store which we utilised to stock up on a few essentials (water and ice lollies), it was at ...

... drive, and takes some getting used to, but by the time we reach the ferry, can reverse in with ease! - 40 minutes across to Fraser Island, switch to 4WD mode, and through the dirt/sand tracks, which are very rough and very rutted - there is no way you ...

... home to a large number of snakes, some of which are deadly. We didn't walk the unlit track to the beach. Expenses (A$2.5/pound): Fraser Island Trip $370.50, Beer $8.50. Friday October 8th - Day 164 With the sand being so soft we had a fairly ...

... stayed in a 10 bed dorm (Would you believe - our first dorm since we started travelling) All 10 people who were going to Fraser Island stayed together. Ourselves and 6 Germans. We all met up that evening to watch a safety video and sort out food and ...

... 120 in an 80 limit I kinda got the impression that he might be a bit of a twat. Barge trip was short and then we were on Fraser Island, took the inland road initially as the tide was too high to go on the beach. Started off as a smoothish sand track, ...

... water height we finally ploughed through but way behind schedule now as we pulled up at the start of the 2.5km walking track to Lake Wabby with only around 45 minutes to spare we reckoned. The other team arrived too with most deciding not to both expect ...

Hello from Fraser Island, The second must-do for any traveller to Australia is a 3 day, 2 night camping experience on Fraser Island. Fraser Island is the largest sand-spit and island in the world. The island has been left virtually untouched and ...

Everyone had bigged up Fraser island to me during my travels so I was hoping it would not disappoint me, believe me it did not and has turned out to be my highlight of Australia, So whats so good about the island???? Well firstly we had a cracking ...

... stops would be places and involve activities I'd actually thought about, rather than following the rest of the herd!!! So, Fraser Island.... the world's largest sand island, off the coast of Queensland, and unfortunately a tiger shark breeding ground ...