Blogs from Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Having arrived at our hostel in the middle of the night it wasn't long before we were waking up again to go to the safety briefing of our tag along tour of Fraser Island. After a couple of quick instructions one of our fellow travellers asked about driving on the Island and we were informed that the previous tour group had blown up the engine on the 2nd vehicle, and unfortunately all seven of us would consequently have to do the tour in the single lead vehicle. This wasn't the ideal start to the tour, but having only been awake a short while we just went with the flow and loaded up the 4x4 before heading to catch the first ferry of the day from Hervey Bay. Once we were sitting in the passenger area of ... read more

All of the Fraser Island tours depart from Hervey Bay so we spent a night there at Flashpackers Hostel before going to Fraser Island. Flashpackers was an amazing hostel it was run by a man called bill and he really couldn't do enough for us. If we asked him a question and he didn't know the answer he would google it and then tell us straight away. We spent our first night there just talking to him and another couple that were in our room. All of the rooms had just been recently refurbished and all had amazing showers. The next day we had to get up really early to get our boat to Fraser Island. We had the most fun on Fraser it was such an amazing place and we met some of the nicest ... read more

Also nach mehreren Internet- und Handylosen Tagen (hier funktioniert noch nicht einmal der Handyempfang), konnte ich mich jetzt endlich an einen Computer durchkaempfen. Am Montag bin ich von Rainbow Beach aus nach Fraser Island gefahren. Es war eine gecoachte 4-Wheel-Drive-Adventure-Tour, das bedeutet wir sind mit je einem Van (Vehicle oder von uns auch Bus genannt) mit Vierradantrieb in zwei Achtergruppen auf die Insel gefahren. Das tolle daran war, dass einer der zwei Vans von uns selbst gefahren werden durfte :) Und das bedeutet jede Menge Spass, dass kann ich garantieren!! :D Angefangen hat alles mit der Begegnung meiner Gruppe in einem Vorbereitungsseminar von einer Stunde DVD gucken. Ich habe gefragt wo wer herkommt und wie alt wer ist. Drei Jungs aus England, einer aus Holland, ein Maedchen aus der Schweiz und ich. Als jedoch rauskam, dass ... read more

Australia – Fraser Island – 4x4’s, camping and seven girls in my car! Let the fun and games begin. After spending the night at Rainbow beach I would be heading off the following morning on a tour of Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island. There would be fifty four of us in total forming a convey of eight jeeps. I was put in a group with seven other girls, which for some of you might sound like a dream come true but I soon realised it was going to be challenging when we got in the car and the I-pod’s were plugged into the stereo and the first request was “have you got any Britney!.” Anyway more on this later, back to the tour. After a short drive we got onto the ferry and headed ... read more

G'day my little suks hows it going? :) So we stayed in Rainbow beach the day before we went to the infamous Fraser Island. We woke up fairly early that morning and loaded our plates with pancakes to fill us up before packing up the tents and food crates with our guide and 8 germans and a lonely crazy excited french bloke who we were to spend the next 3 days in very close quaters ! chlo and i looked at each other with slightly worried faces as they were speaking all in german and thought this will be interesting to sy the least! but they turned out to be fine at english and dabbled between the languages to tell us what they were laughing at so all was ok. Day 1 we headed out in ... read more

On the 10th we flew to Brisbane and spent some time at the outlet mall near the airport. We headed into town and checked in, bought some groceries and had a small dinner, walked around a bit then hit the hay. It was 8pm by that point so we didn't do too much exploring; we were also pretty tired and had an early bus the next day. 7:15am and we're climbing on a 5.5h bus to Rainbow Beach: our connection to Fraser Island which is the largest sand island in the world. When we got there we checked in, went to the beach and attended the mandatory Fraser Island 4WD tag along tour briefing at 4:30 (it's a tag along our because the front vehicle has a guide but the three or four other cars are ... read more

12.2.2012 Fraser Island Some facts about Fraser Island - it is an island off Queensland, the largest sand island in the world and is a world heritage site. Up at 05.30 to leave for Fraser Island in our safari 4x4's. Once off the ferry we put the 4x4 into 4wd for driving on the sand dunes. All the roads were made out of sand and were really steep in places. There was a convoy of 7 4x4's, with two driver guides in two of the cars. We had only been driving for 5 minutes and one of the 4x4's broke down! So we were waiting around for ages, the exhaust had fallen off, but they managed to secure it with some tape. Our 4x4 'Frank the Tank' was probably the oldest out of the lot and ... read more

Sam & Eva arrived in Oz 22ndJan staying with us for first week then off to Tasmania. I was meeting up with them in Brisbane for trip to Fraser Island- a very beautiful world heritage area with access only by beach and very rough inland tracks by Four wheel drives. Famed for Dingos. No swimming in the sea due to the sharks so the crystal clear freshwater lakes a pretty good alternative (and if the size of the fish we were to see jumping were anything to go by, we had no problem keeping out of the sea). Pretty impressed with myself for fitting everything for the trip into a rucksack as hand luggage and doing public transport (combo of bus & train) to Sydney airport. Lucky me got to sit next to very chatty drunk ... read more