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Fraser Island Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fraser Island, Australia
It's just lovely here
... and had a pleasant drive down to Hervey Bay and from there to River Heads where we left our car and took the ferry barge to Fraser Island. The resort is very well designed and has low eco-impact. What that means is that our room is within a ...
Fraser Island - K'gari (Paradise)
Fraser Island or K'gari which is the aboriginal name for the place which translates into 'Paradise' which is quite right really. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and is a world heritage site! the place is amazing, we swam in fresh ...
Fraser Island!
... shades of red-yellow....) a place called the champaigne pools and the indian head (a massive outlook point over the sea and fraser island), it was good - although everythings spread well apart so its a lot of bumpy driving! We saw some people from the ...
4x4 adventure
Definitely one of the highlights of our whole trip so far - sent to a totally sand island with 9 other people, a van, food, tents, a map and beer. And a little lesson on driving 4x4's on ...
Sand, sand and more sand
... group. Another traveller had recommended going with "Dingoes" from Rainbow Beach which worked well as it's much closer to Fraser Island (just a 7 minute ferry crossing) than the more popular Hervey Bay, and Dingoes backpackers hostel was nice too. ...
The Largest Sand Island in the world
... of the trip across. It took approximately 15 minutes to cross the pacific ocean to Fraser Island. Fraser Island is a precious part of Australia's natural and cultural heritage, it is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy. The ...
Hervey Bay and Fraser Island
... Thai noodle bar near the hostel in Pialba at night and then walked along the beach front - not much happening in Hervey Bay apart from Fraser Island! Wed 30/11 - Thurs 01/12/05: Fraser Island:- Picked up by car hire firm and got our 4WD: a land rover ...
D-I-NGO
Fraser Island is one of Australia's natural beauties, and it is a place that almost all backpackers flock to when travelling the east coast. It is a world heritage island made entirely out of sand, containing a bevy of amazing lakes and creeks. For many ...
A whole lot of sand.........
... around. Knowing that one day we will return to Noosa, we reluctantly packed our bags and headed north to Hervey Bay and Fraser Island....... Is that a Dingo???? After a one night stop in Hervey Bay, we jumped on the Fraser Experience bus that we ...
Great lakes of Fraser
Hiked into a spectacular freshwater lake today and got to enjoy it on our own for a while before the tour groups showed up. Spectacularly clear water right up against the sand dune. ...
Bombing it with the Dingo's
... instead of the expected relaxing camp kind of night - all of a sudden we were the hottest (and possibly first/only) club on fraser island - blaring out the beats and pumping a full scale dance party. lots of people from other trucks came over and it was ...
Not cool guys!
... , avec, dans mon cas, encore une petite pression sur la poitrine mais rien d'assez sérieux pour que je perde mon trip sur Fraser island. Je vais me chercher mes crêpes gratuite (définitivement, j'adore cet hostel) Et je me prépare, lentement, à check ...
Return to Rainbow and Fraser Island.
... alive than before. I had my day trip to Fraser island yesterday but I wasn't as impressed as everyone else was. Everyone loves Fraser Island and lots of friends have recommended it but I think it's been over hyped a bit for me. My expectations were ...
Fraser Island
... view of the lake is just amazing just look at the picture and judge for yourself. We then headed for the Boat and made our way back to the hostel after a very nice three days on the island. ...
Noosa to Fraser Island
... , but the rest were from Ireland. They are all currently living in Brisbane and had chosen to spend their long easter weekend on Fraser Island getting absolutely hammered! So out of 24 people, there were 15 irish people on a mission to booze! Luke and I ...
Rain, more Rain, T Cubed and finally some sun!!
... diesel everyday in the UK! After a relatively painless ferry crossing (apart from it being over an hour late to depart) we arrived on Fraser Island as the magnificent 7 of Me, Luc, Chin, Loz, Lard, Strap and Julie, plus 2 new recruits who had been grouped ...
Exploring Fraser Island...
... - a 3 hour hike through the rainforest. Again, found out some really interesting facts about different trees, the history of Fraser Island, animals and all sorts of random information (our tour guide, Cam, was so knowledgeable) and got completely eaten ...
Out on the Sand
... the Whitsunday Islands and eating more than a single banana for my daytime meal. I'd also ruled out the prospect of visiting Fraser Island but as we moved further South, I had a change of heart. It's the world's biggest sand island and ...
Driving on the Sand
Largest sand island in the world. You can essentially drive anywhere you want and the beach is a highway. Super cool. We did some serious 4x4 ing to Lake Garawongara. It was only after we got there that we read the map, which ...
Fraser Island self-drive!
Photos of the world's largest sand island which we drove around in a 4x4 and also got a puncture and were stranded for a couple of hours! ...
4 Tage Campen
Fraser Island
... had a limited amount of time and wanted to have enough time to surf on the Gold Coast before getting to Sydney. My pictures of Fraser island are not great because of the crappy weather we had that day so I suggest you check someone else's pictures if you ...
Fraser Island
We rolled into Hervey Bay in our Telstar about 2 hours from the Sunshine Coast. Hervey Bay is the launch pad for Fraser Island which sits just off the coast. Fraser is the biggest sand island in the world and is a world heritage site. Because of its ...
Fraser Island Day 1
... , dann geht’s endlich mit der Fähre auf Fraser Islad ;) Stop 1) Lake McKenzie Ein wunderschöner See auf Fraser Island Stop 2) Rainforest Walk bei Central Station Durch den Regenwald um die Central Station machen wir einen kleinen Spaziergang. ...
Fraser Island Day 2
Nach einem frühen Frühstück geht’s edlich los weiter die Insel erkunden: Stop 1) Eli Creek Ein superschöner Wasserlauf. Und nicht so kalt wie befürchtet :) Stop 2) Maheno Shipwreck Das liegt hier schon ein Weilchen. In ein paar ...
Fraser Island Day 3
Letzter Tag auf Fraser Island. Unser Stop heute ist Lake Wabby ein weiterer wunderschöner See auf Fraser Island. Mir ist es am Morgen noch zu kalt zu baden, machen nicht :) Vom Parkplatz aus sind es ca. 45 Minuten zum See, ein schöner ...
Fraser Island
... wrong turn of the steering wheel would of ended up with us in the water! It was quite hairraising stuff. When we got to Fraser Island we had to let down the tyre pressure, another challenge, in order for us to have more control whilst driving on the ...
Fraser Island
... ocean on one side and Rainbow Beach on the other side. Next morning we had our alarm set for 6.50am ready to head over to Fraser Island, although one girl in our dorm decided to set her alarm for 4am so ended up getting hardly any sleep at all! We got ...