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Fraser Island Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fraser Island, Australia
Castles (and tents) in the sand...
... park to get our permits and then run back again as I reversed the truck onto the ferry. I was a bit nervous about driving on Fraser Island as there are virtually no tarmac roads, they are all sand. I'd also been on the island once before in 2000 and ...
Sand, dingos and rainforests
Went on an amazing 2 day trip to Fraser Island, which was totally stunning. The island is the worlds largest sand island, which also hosts lots of wildlife, rainforests and fresh water lakes. So it was me and Fiona, an aussie bloke, an Irish couple, a ...
Fraser Island - Largest Sand island in the world
... the ocean, basically keep the vehicle away from salt". The first thing we did was walk through the rainforest. Fraser Island is extremely famous for its fresh water lakes. I had heard many stories about how nice ...
Fraser Island - Tag 1
... einem kurzen Frühstück sind wir nach Hervey Bay (River Heads) gefahren von wo wir um 06:45 mit der Fähre nach Fraser Island gefahren sind. Dort fuhren wir mit einem 4WD Truck quer durch die Insel, ein richtiges Abenteuer. Die ganze Insel besteht nur ...
Fraser Island Day 2
... minute walk through the bush along the Wanggolba creek, where the bush took us onto Lake Birrabeen. The most popular lake on the island is lake Mackenzie, however, as it's so busy there the driver took us to the alternative lake Birrabeen which is almost ...
Dingos
For the past three days and two nights I've been camping out on Fraser Island. All the local hostels set up similar self drive trips, and Beaches Backpackers put me with a group of ten other explorers. Fraser is the world's largest sand island and only ...
Self Drive Safari
What an awsome place. 1 huge sand island....... full of sand ! Another huge highlight from me adventures so far. 18 of us headed of in two toyota 4x4 trucks. with no guides, just a map and an itinary! i got first shot at driving when we arrived on the ...
Here's some Fraser Island photos
Ok, hopefully you've all heard about Fraser Island and some the lakes and stuff, so I'm going to try to get some photos uploaded, but I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, so bear with ...
Day 78 - Hervey Bay to Fraser Island
... dingoes killed and partially ate a toddler, so they are still very much a problem here) They say that Fraser Island has the 'purest' dingos in Australia because there has been no cross-breeding with domestic dogs, but unfortunately we didn't see any on ...
Best Trip Ever
... next hill and there is a beautiful lake! We swam there too, which was fantastic. We also visited the famous shipwreck on Fraser Island (Maheno Shipwreck) which was really cool and we spent time on the beach and walking through random streams. I drove ...
Falling down hatches and toilet holes
... deeply incoherent wandering along the high street with that ' collapsing knee' gait that is reserved for the truly pissed. FRASER ISLAND - SAND, SAND, MORE SAND, BOOZE AND PASSING OUT IN THE DUNES It was with a great deal of effort that ...
Playin' in the sand...big boy stylee
... as the only music to listen to its kinda stuck...and yes, that is slightly annoying! I have just returned from Fraser Island, where I have been driving around the world's biggest sand island. Its certainly an interesting social experiment. Stick 10 ...
having a blast with the dingoes
... on the beach. we put our tents up and watched the dingoes walking across the huge sandblow at dusk. (there are dingoes everywhere - Fraser Island wouldn't be the same without them. they are wild animals and by the sound of it, pretty savage if you get on ...
4x4 Self Drive Fraser Island Adventure
Hervey Bay is the main jumping off point for trips to Fraser Island - the Worlds largest sand bank island!! There are a few different options, but we wanted to do the self drive safari as you have a bit more freedom, but best of all you get to drive ...
World's largest sand island
... the water which was fantastic! Really sore calf after though which wasn't good. That afternoon we had our Fraser Island briefing - safety info regarding wild dingos (dogs), rules and regulations, camping info etc. Saturday we woke ...
Fraser Island
Fraser Island.... Well do we need to say much more? Three days on the off roading sand island, & it REALLY is as beautiful as ledgend has it! You have to go ...
Fraser Island
Our first roadtrip took us north to Fraser Island. We parked our car, swapped against the 4wd we had rented for the massive sand island and made our way to the ferry. Unfortunately the weather still was overcast and we had some rain every now and then, ...
Rainbow beach and Fraser Island
Stayed in Rainbow Beach and did a two day tour of the island. Fraser Island is the biggest sand island in the world. It's a massive aquifer, rainwater constantly filtering down through the sand and streaming out 60-100 years later. It makes ...
4wd bus tour on Fraser
After killing the previous day in Hervey Bay, I woke up early for my two day, one night Fraser Island tour. First up was a hike through a bit of forest and then over sand dunes to Lake Wabby. Met Aileen, an Irish schoolteacher, and ...
dingos
Rainbow beach and Fraser Island An island completely made of sand. Booked in advance you have to go with 4x4 jeeps, it's a world mystery this place because no body can explain the huge rainforest that has grown from sand. Camping on sand is hilarious, ...
It rained on the Sunshine Coast (have a word)
... and upon walking back to our lodge we came across our first snake....crikey! Day 3 was a different story with excellent proper fraser island weather. It lifted everyone's mood and we had a super day at lake wabby, running around the vanilla ice cream ...
Fraser Is. 4WD Safari - complete with Borat clone!
To view all the photos from the whole Fraser Island trip click here Well time for the four wheel drive safari on Fraser Island - apparently voted the 5th sexiest Island in the world!! First up the group assembled at the hostel at 7.00am to be ...
Hervey Bay, Rainbow Beach, Fraser Island
... a brief stint in Hervey Bay to catch my breath I headed onto Rainbow Beach, one of the main points for doing trips to Fraser Island, which is the largest sand island in the world. Its about 120 kilometers long and between 5 and 25 kilometers wide with ...
And You Thought we Hated Sand!
We hastily packed our day packs for our three day adventure on Fraser Island whilst eating a breakfast of chilled rock melon. It was rather a rush to check out, store our luggage and get a taxi booked and we were beginning to think we should have made the ...
Fraser Island
... that the sea breaks over, check out the photos of it. Set up camp further down the beach late in the afternoon. 10th December Fraser Island/Hervey Bay Set off on a 40 minute walk to Lake Wabby, we didn't think much of the bush walk, especially ...
Island of dingoes
... to Indian Head but we were all determined to climb to the top and see if we could spot any mantas or sharks. The sea around Fraser Island is famous for sharks and also for its turbulent waves so swimming in the sea is prohibited. When we got to the top ...
Fraser Island
... Fraser Island and looking for good weather. Sunshine it is at River Heads where we are takiing the ferry over to Wanggoolba Creek on Fraser Island. The clouds are moving in and the trees are dancing freely, it's windy. Fraser is an all sand island with ...
Fraser Island / Hervey Bay
... to maintain chronological order, so have set a different date. The last 3 days and 2 nights have been spent on the largest sand island in the world, which I have toured with my fellow group of intrepid explorers in a Toyota Land Cruiser 4 x 4, which I ...