Kingfisher Bay Resort

Fraser Island - Kingfisher Bay Resort - 29th May until 2nd June 2008   Here we are, having travelled back to the coast and down another 500kms or so, to the Hervey Bay area just under the Tropic of Capricorn.  Our home for just one night was ...

... The main reason we came to Hervey was to get to Fraser Island and after much research we opted to stay at the Kingfisher Bay Resort for 2 nights. This is the most luxourious place to stay on Fraser and the only place which you can get to without ...

... it was time to get the car into secure parking, check in our bags and queue up for the ferry crossing to The Kingfisher Bay Resort. 45 minutes of catamaran travel with a bracing wind throughout the cabins...  Fingers crossed it's a bit warmer on this ...

... quite attached to 'the Rolla' (a Toyota Corolla) !!!! A talkative taxi driver drove us to the land based check in for the Kingfisher Bay resort. You check in to the hotel here leave your bags with them and then wait for a coach to take you to the ferry. ...

... , Noosa and Hervey Bay and thousands of leaflets. But I finally settled on the Cool Dingo tour run by the Kingfisher Bay resort people. Departing from Hervey Bay we spent 2 days seeing Fraser Island and returned late last night (see previous entry). ...

... far topped our best-of-Australia list, we flew to Hervey Bay further south on the Sunshine Coast. We were headed to the Kingfisher Bay Resort out on Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island with a 75 mile long beach. This was where we were going to ...

... got a refund!  Luckily Wayne and Sharon, who we stayed with in Brisbane, had a friend who owned a beautiful house in Kingfisher Bay resort.  We had the worst nights sleep ever at Pippies, it was freezing cold!! The next day we headed upto Hervey ...

...  Cathedral Cliffs due to their multi-coloured, layered sand shape. We finally bounced back across the island to the Kingfisher Bay resort to catch the 5 PM boat back to the mainland.  We immediately hit the road again, facing a five-hour ...

... am crossing to Fraser Island. Phil, our guide and driver for the day, met us at the pier and walked us up to the Kingfisher Bay resort where we would get our transport for the day. Because the island is made out of sand, there are no metalled roads so ...

... side, without quite realising how big it is, and how unfit I have become! We enjoy a lunch and the kingfisher bay resort hotel, pretty nice and me and Katelyn sneak off to use the jacuzzi, even though it is for residents only, but ...

... has since been disproved but the dingo's reputation has already been damaged. the first day i took the ferry from Hervey Bay over to the Kingfisher Resort, the place that would be my home base for the next 48 hours. upon docking, the other Cool Dingo ...

Left Urangan Harbour and worked our way back down the Straits and anchored off Kingfisher Resort, and spent the night there. It was a windy night, and the anchorage was a bit ...

Took the 12.30pm ferry to Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island. A relaxing and very beautiful resort which we will enjoy for the next three days. ...

... early start, this time to pick up our 4WD Jimny before catching the barge over to Fraser Island. The barge landed at Kingfisher Bay and that's where we began our off-road adventure. We crossed the very steep sandy in-land tracks and first stop ...

... with a lot of rest and relaxation in a nice resort on this beautiful World Heritage listed island. We chose the Kingfisher Bay Resort because it looks like a nice resort from the pictures on its official website and the majority of reviews about it on ...

... finally start our adventuorous day trip and it really started with a baptism of fire as the first road segment leaving the Kingfisher Bay Resort was the most tricky part to drive due to the soft sand conditions. I was the designated driver for the day ...

... at the Hervey Bay Marina. We boarded a huge passenger boat and took it from the Marina to Fraser Island. We arrived at Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island about 45 minutes later. It was still raining too. Once we were off the boat we took a bus to the ...