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Fraser Island Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fraser Island, Australia
(Martin) Laurence of Australia (& Kate)
This is a top pick! 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. Alarm ...
Canada Day Long Weekend
This is a top pick! ... us but we still had room for a little red wine. We rose to the sounds of the birds the next morning and joined a Fraser Island 4x4 tour. Fritz was our driver. His thick German-Austrian accent and vibrant sense of humour warmed the chilly ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! ... day. Staying at A1 Fraser Roving which is a pretty nice hostel. Raining again the next day and we get a storm that night - off to Fraser Island in the morning, if it hasn't been rained away! We catch our bus the next day and then a ferry over to the ...
D-I-N-G-O and Dingo was his Name-O
This is a top pick! ... Island is a beautiful Island , about 70 km long and 20 km wide which contains mostly ... sand. I read in the Lonely Planet that Fraser Island has more sand than the Sahara desert! I don't believe it either but seeing as the Lonely is my new bible , I ...
Fraser Island - Day 225-226
This is a top pick! Day 225 - 03/10/08 Caught the passenger ferry to Fraser island this morning after being picked up at the hostel. Fraser is the biggest sand island in the world at 123km long with a total area of 1840 square kilometres. It's one of the highlights on ...
Australia - Hervey Bay / Fraser Island
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! We did the two day tour of Fraser Island. Michael didn't want to do the self drive (you can hire a jeep and self tour the island with a load of other backpackers) which was fair enough, so we did a bus tour which has a driver. Warning: ...
Miracle Drug
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! ... 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 early ...
Let's Off Road!!
This is a top pick! ... into the bush alone. So sorry, because the weekend just gone we decided to hire a 4X4 jeep, jump on a ferry & drive around Fraser Island - the largest sand island in the world & also the largest populated island with the least number of bitumen roads - ...
The Land of Sand
This is a top pick! ... I had a more supportive bra on. To better understand the roads let me explain Fraser a little better. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in australia, and maybe the world. There are only major rocks in three places, everything else is sand. And ...
The biggest Sand Island in the world
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Day 288-294: Fraser Island to Brisbane
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Norwegian Nightmare
This is a top pick! ... their drivers' license with them, but there was no way I was going to do all the driving - although in hindsight I wished I had. Fraser Island, which is another World Heritage site, is the largest sand island in the world, covering an area of over ...
Air Fraser
This is a top pick! ... the price! We had been used to cheap Asian tours at about £20 a pop, over here each bloody trip is about 100 quid. Fraser Island Some interesting trivia for you all - Fraser Island is the worlds largest sand island, is over 123 kilometres long, and was ...
A Pair of Wallys
This is a top pick! A little rain in the night saw my tent turning into a sieve as I woke up in a small puddle too tried in the night to care about it then. Corolla took the driver's seat this morning as we drove back down the beach with a high tide forcing up into the ...
Fraser Island 4WD Tours
This is a top pick! *********************************** Tuesday 3rd February Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and home to the purest strain of Australian dingoes. Most of the backpackers do a self-drive option which actually means you hire a 4wd ...
Its Gripped, were sorted, lets OFFROAD...!
This is a top pick! ... Island. Located just off the coast from Hervey Bay (a 12 hour overnight bus ride south from Airlie Beach), World Heritage Listed Fraser Island is over 120kms long and over 30kms across at its widest point. It is a unique natural environment - the ...
Sand and Dingoes
This is a top pick! Bronwyn's glowing tales of Fraser Island convince us to detour there for a night, so we ambitiously take off at five-thirty in the morning to make the 8:00 a.m. ferry from Hervey Bay. We retrace our route beside ant hills and flame trees, across the ...
Goon Squad
This is a top pick! An early rise and a quick round of bacon sarnies later saw us packed and traveling back south down 75 mile beach only to hit Eli Creek at high tide (nobody would listen to me) meaning a 2 hour wait before we could continue. After testing the ...
2 Brits and 8 Germans in a van.
This is a top pick! ... on it, 2 canadians and 2 germans. We arrived at Rainbow beach and checked in ready for our 4pm meeting about our trip to Fraser Island. At the meeting we got grouped together and shown a few videos about what to expect. Dingo's and their man eating ...
Land of the Sand
This is a top pick! 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 ...
K'Gari
This is a top pick! ... we even got to the island. Spotting my first dolphins on the boat crossing we were soon bumping over the sandy tracks of Fraser Island making our way to our first stop at Lake Mackenzie. The fresh water lake in which you are not allowed to wear sun ...
The largest sand island in the world...
This is a top pick! The next stage of our trip, was to go to Fraser island. This is an Island madeof sand. Apart from walking long distances, the only way of getting around on the island, is by four wheel drive tracks. Luckily James' car is a Jeep Cherokee, so we managed to ...
Amazing Fraser
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Fraser Island Tour - Day 2
This is a top pick! ... 6-1. We slept outside the hostel tonight since they close their gates until 7am and we had to be up early to get to Tin Can Bay to feed the dolphins. Costs Fraser Island 2 day 1 night tour - a whopping £200 each !!! Pint of beer - £4 ...
Sand - absolutely everywhere....!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Fraser Island 4X4 Pink Party Truck
This is a top pick! ... I was looking for cars coming from the wrong direction. I didn't even get us stuck in the sand once the whole weekend. Fraser Island is beautiful. I expected to see many more tourists, but it was laid back and didn't seem over run with tour groups. ...
Our 4WD adventure on Fraser Island
This is a top pick! ... 10am and still no sign of the ferry but eventually 30mins later we were loaded on the barge and making our way across to Fraser Island. We were lucky enough to see some dolphins playing in the water near the boat on the 40 min crossing. Fraser ...
Fraser Island -- Wild 4WD and Dingo hunt
This is a top pick! Had a day chilling in Hervey bay (and sleeping) and then met the Fraser Island crew the next day. Fraser Island is the biggest sand island in the world. It has around 40 freshwater lakes, extensive sand dunes, forest and even some pockets of rain forest. ...