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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island April 27th 2016

Fraser Island Tuesday 26th April Today we spent the first few hours at Central Station having breakfast and packing up. We are leaving central station today and heading to Eli beach camping after a lunch and laundry stop at Eurong . Spent a few hours there gorging ourselves on cake and bread product and then chips and other awful bits of lunch. Very tasty though but certainly not good for you. Paul and I took the kids for a walk to the beach. We talked to an old lady sitting in an old landcruiser. She was 79 years old and had been coming to Fraser for a very long time. She told us to be very careful with the tides and to not leave too early to Eli camping ground. We took her advice and left ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island April 26th 2016

Hi all, today was pretty much the same as yesterday. We stayed right away from the beach as the wind was gale force at 25 to 30 knots. We went and had a look at two lakes. Lake Birrabeen and Lake Boomanjin and both were very different lakes. Lake Birrabeen was the nicest to swim at. It was very similar to Lake McKenzie. Clear water and white sand. Lake McKenzie was nicer though. After lunch at Lake Birrabeen (tomatoes,cheese, vege mite and Nutella) we headed off to a place called Dilli Village. There was nothing there but a private fenced campground. We went directly onto Eastern beach from there and drove about 10km or so to Eurong. Eurong is Lisa and Tonina's favourite spot. It has a hot bread , grocery and COFFEE. The sea was ... read more
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Central station campsite
Central Station camping

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island April 24th 2016

Hi all. Today is Sunday, our second day on Friday Island. It started off with some rain in the middle of the night. Went for about an hour or so. By the morning the skies had cleared up. Was going to be a beautiful day. We started the day by driving for 20 mins to a resort complex called Eurong. I could not believe what we found. A bakery, supermarket, residential resort and fuel. Could not help having a coffee and chocolate eclair. My god this is what I called rough camping. We headed back to camp and at about 11.30 we headed off to Lake McKenzie. Well we thought it was just a lake. We were so wrong. We found this beautiful clear freshwater lake surround by white sand beaches with plenty of swimming. We ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island April 23rd 2016

Today is the day,we will finally get to go to Fraser Island. We started the day at the caravan park at rainbow beach. We had no hurry to leave as the low tide was at 2 pm and as such we could not go to the island until ts hours before low tide. This meant it was ideal to get on the barge no earlier than 12 noon. Well, do you think we could wait. We were on the boat at 11.30am. We just could not wait any longer. We released air out of our tyres to ensure we do not get stuck in the sand. They were a few people stuck in the sand. It was so busy. It was like Bourke street. Anyhow we got on the barge with no incident and we jumped ... read more
Iskip point
Iskip point
On the barge

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island January 6th 2016

The alarm goes at 6am and Martin complains that we are meant to be on holiday. I too am tired but we have sights to see! Good morning the group echo as we board the tour bus, how was your evening? What was the hotel like? How was the lodge? What was your food like? We are all starting to share our common experiences which have the effect of bonded you to strangers and opening up new friendships. What time did you go to bed they ask us. I confess that we were in bed by 10pm expecting to hear tales of drinking late into the night. Well that was later ... read more
Beach at Indian Heads
Champagne Pools
Maheno Wreck

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island January 5th 2016

It's an early start and we check out of our apartment at Noosaville and take our luggage to be left at the Sheraton Hotel at Noosa Heads where will check in again in a couple of days. In the meantime we throw our small back pack on and make our way to meet our tour group for Fraser Island. There they are five youngsters, none of them older than 33. Instantly I feel old but young at heart. They too have clearly clocked our age and gallantly offer us the front seats instead of the bench like seats in the back. There are some advantages of being the mature ones I think ... read more
Fraser Island 75 mile beach
Warnings are every where
Wabby Beach viewing point

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island December 15th 2015

So this morning I woke up with a very hungry tummy after Last nights fabulous dinner of samurai selection - kind of like a Chinese selection prawn toast etc then I had king prawns in a white wine sauce whilst the hubs had lasagne chips and salad (not very exotic - but a change from a burger haha!) and apparently wasn't a patch on his mums!! So today we went to Fraser Island thinking of breakfast, to which there was none for me as I don't eat cheese!! So I had a snickers!! Healthy! Anyway! Off we went to Fraser Island, please excuse my mass of jumble to follow - I tried to remember all the things the guide told us so it may be a bit random as my brain remembers stuff! ..... Fraser Island ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island November 25th 2015

Us again, Following on from feedback our previous blog, Derek here again to keep the fans happy! (Emma supervising). New Zealand finished with a bang as our last night in Queenstown a new roomie (middle aged Brazilian man) decided to climb in the top bunk with Emma! I was in the other top bunk watching and laughing uncontrollably. He had been on the booze for a solid 12 hours so the fact he found the room was an achievement in my eyes, just got the bed wrong! Emma swiftly informed him "NO mate, this is not your bed." Next stop was Sydney and a visit to the ever welcoming Penrith Posse. It was BBQ with the Posse and Ron cooked a magic steak & we met Nalah for first time as well as catching up with ... read more
Halse Lodge Noosa
Crocs Rule
Australia Zoo

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island November 19th 2015

Waking at six o'clock in the morning for the start of our three-day guided tour to Fraser Island (Monday 16thNovember), we had just enough time to pack our bags and eat a quick breakfast before we were picked up and taken to the ferry terminal at River Heads (just outside Hervey Bay), from where the car ferry took us over to Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island. With my only previous Fraser Island experience having been a three-day self-drive 4WD camping trip run by Dingo's Backpackers Hostel in Rainbow Beach nine years ago, I had originally thought this would be the way to go again. That was until a little online research in Melbourne uncovered the fact that the rules for visiting Fraser Island had changed, meaning that it was no longer possible to do a ... read more
The Beautiful Blue
Crystal Clear Creek
Twin Towers

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island October 4th 2015

Spent the last 2 days on Fraser Island. It's the largest sand island in the world (160 miles by 10 miles). I was amazed at how much vegetation grows on this island - it is completely covered with rainforest, springs, lakes, swimming holes, etc. The tour I went on was a group of 4 giant 4x4s. On the main beaches of the island you can drive on all of them like highways. They even have speed limits posted on the beaches. The island is called Fraser Island because a lady named Fraser told a story about how her husband got really sick, the crew abandoned ship and she crashed the ship into Fraser Island. Her husband got eaten by cannibals and she got rescued by a park ranger. That was her story. In reality, her ... read more
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