Fraser Coast

... back down the east coast causing mayhem diving in the barrier reef, sailing in the whitsunday islands and 4x4 off roading it on fraser island. this was my most memorable time in australia to date. i am writing this travel log from brisbane where i have ...

My emails from me goin up the East coast from Sydney up to Cairns in a month and a half. Concentrating more about the stuff that's happened than descriptions of the places themselves.

Tilly's first visit of Australia took us to the north eastern coast line of Australia.

After a hectic year of work and graduate school, I'm looking forward to going off the grid for 3 weeks. With Australia lacking the culture and history that European cities offer, I'm hoping to relax on beaches by day and party at night. The trip starts ...

Hello! Currently staying in Hervey Bay, on the Fraser Coast in Oz (about 3 hrs drive north of Brisbane). Our penthouse apartment (did I let that slip?) is right on the beach, overlooking the Great Sandy Strait. We got up this morning at 6am to watch the ...

Bab's and I headed up to the Fraser Coast to explore the Island with Jo, Elaine and the rest of the travelling posse for the weekend - after all you can't come to Australia and not do some camping in the wilds with the Dinogs wandering the campsite!  ...

... relaxing and swimming in the lake. After Lake Wabby we took the 4WD on the beach for the first time, the Eastern coast on Fraser island is a registered highway with speed limits and everything! It was great to drive on the beach, the waves are huge ...

... much to see there. It's very clean though, and it probably never gets below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The other side trip was to Fraser Island. It was actually just my mom and I again. The rest of our group stayed and shopped some more around Surfer's ...

... to be in Hervey Bay for our Fraser Island Tour Briefing at 6pm. Little did we know what we were in for!!! Fraser Island is a sand island off the coast of central queensland which has lots of nice lakes and scenery and things like that.  It is a must ...

... Adventure with the Fraser Island company (http://www.fraserislandco.com.au/tours/2day/adventure.html). Fraser Island - stretching over 123 kilometres along the southern coast of Queensland with an area of 184 000 hectares is the largest sand island in ...

... and when but we don’t really care as we chomp our way through another bit of research! The local aboriginal people call Fraser Island K Gari, which  roughly translates into paradise and this name is so apt. Fraser Island is 150 kms long- the ...

17 – 18 June 2009: We took a flight from Hervey Bay to Brisbane after our 2 nights' stay in Fraser Island. From Brisbane, we took the very convenient and efficient Airtrain to Nerang, which is the nearest stop to our hotel in Surfer’s ...

Fraser Island was a real paradise stop off along the Queensland coast.  The biggest sand island in the world and pretty impressive with it, supporting its own sub-tropical rainforests and beautiful freshwater lakes.  We set off, warned about the ...

... for about 45 mins. This looked amazing a fresh pool in the middle of sand dunes it looked like a mirage !!!!!!! We headed back for the coast and as the tide was in we were not allowed to drive in the salt water we made up camp on the beach where others ...

... this would go down… Fraser is one of the biggest attractions in Australia though and you can't really say you've seen the East coast without Fraser. So it was on the list. The funniest bit of the day for me, ended up being at the very end, for our ...

... . I will be posting a number of pics on Facebook so look out for them.  Just some interesting information about Fraser Island, it was nominated for World Heritage Status by the Queensland Government, in 1992 it actually received the honour, ...

... in the area which were once harvested for wharf piles to build the Suez Canal and the London Docks. Satinay or Fraser Island Turpentine is easily recognised by its deeply furrowed bark and tall straight trunk. Indiana Jones meets Jurassic Park! ...

... to our hostel - Dingo's. I was very excited about Dingo's as a lot of people I'd met coming up the coast had stayed at Dingo's and done their Fraser Island tours from there - I hadn't heard a bad word and I wasn't to be disappointed. With our ...

... get you through anything and they must have been older than me. We got to see some really spectacular sights and I can imagine Fraser Island, just like camping, could be really fun in nice weather. But when you are constantly soaking, and the only respite ...