Blogs from Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 51

We got dropped off at Hervey Bay as our base for the Fraser Isalnd experience. Our Hervey Bay accomadation was called The Woolshed and was really nice. We had a tv in our room which was a missed luxuary we were very grateful of, especially as we had the worst weather for the first day so stayed in our room and watched some commonwealth games. We booked a 2 day and 1 night tour of the island fearing that cyclone Larry would create bad weather and we wouldn't be able to do much. We got to the island and started the tour straight away visiting the rainforest and then the beautiful Lake McKenzie. The rain forest lived upto its name and it started to tip it down as soon as we started walking through it. Thanks ... read more

Woke to a glorious morning on Fraser Island. Sun was shining and the hangover was mild. We packed up camp and headed to a campsite to clean all the dishes and for Tommy to have a shower!!!! shock horror!!! we took a light stroll to a large Sandblow...like a mini desert. Attempts at boardless sandboarding were made but it would have been much easier with something resembling a tea tray but as it was we just kind of jumped and hoped for the best. We headed then to Eli creek, which is a beautiful fresh water creek...cold and clear(drinkable by all accounts). Having splashed around there for a while we continued our jorney and made a stop for lunch. The road to Lake Garawongera was fun...the lake itself was a nice place for a dip...not as ... read more

Up at 7am today, half the tent flat on my face and boiling hot. I was still dying for the toilet as i had waited all night! Once we finally got to the showers there was a huge queue, and later on we had to have one of the bossy Canadian girls come in and tell us to hurry up! wasn't our fault!! The hot water was a dollar for every 3mins, so I decided just to have a cold one instead. It was a trek to Lake Wabby. We had to walk a LONG way down hill to the Lake and dreaded the walk back(about 1.2km). The Lake itself was very green, and the sand dunes were so big it looked like desert. Nothing like Lake McKenzie, so we didnt stay there long and went ... read more

Andy was up at 6.30am for a walk along the beach feeling a little ruff for too much goon! We had breakfast around 8am and set off for the day at 9am. This morning we were taking a walk into the rainforest. The amazing thing about this rain forest is that it is all growing in sand! You wouldn't think there is enough nutrients, but there is enough nutrients in the top couple of inches, so they spread their roots along rather than down. We had a few stop offs on the way to the walking track through the forest where Mark told us about various trees, plants and logging on the island. We had a nice steady walk through the Yiddy rainforest and along the Wanggoolba Creek. We saw a few lizards and an eel. ... read more

Saa hedder det verdens stoerste sandoe - Fraser Island. Svoemme i ferskvandssoe - smukke McKenzie med sit turkusblaa "vand", sand saa hvidt og fint, at man skulle tro det var mel, groenne frodige traer, der omkrandser dette cirkulaere vidunder. 60 km's koersel langs Eastern Beach med smukke sandklitter i alle taenkelige farver, som km tilbagelaegges, til den ene side og hav m. hajer til den anden side. 4W - koersel gn. regnskoven langs smalle ujaevne sand- (ikke grus)stier med groenne grene og store tykke traestammer taet, taet paa. Indkvarteret paa Wilderness Lodge under ganske fine forhold med 40 andre guys. Jeg deler vaerelse med Charlotte (DK), Dianna (UK) og Tina (N0). Ganske hyggeligt. I skrivende stund er vi netop vendt hjem fra ovennaevnte strandkoersel i kilometervis og er smuttet paa besoeg for en kort svoemmetur paa ... read more