Lake Wabby

Fraser Island

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December 8th 2007
We caught the overnight greyhound to Rainbow Beach (13 hours!!) where we booked into our hostel and met the people we would be going to Fraser Island with. It was a self-drive 4x4 unguided group tour, so we had to watch an instructional video on how to drive the car without getting bogged in the sand and how to be Dingo safe!! We went and stocked up on food and drink before packing up the car and ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more