Blogs from Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Fraser Island has long been known as one of Australia’s biggest highlights. I went there with friends who are new in Australia though I have been here for a while. So when we finally made it to Hervey Bay, the jump-off point for Fraser Island, we were SUPER excited! Fraser Island is 120km long and 15km wide and is also known as the largest sand island in the world. It's around 3.5 hrs drive from Brisbane as per visit Brisbane . There are no sealed roads and given it’s a sand island all the roads basically consist of loose sand. It’s like driving on the beach inside a rainforest, how cool is that?! Even with a small 4X4 (which we were initially considering), it would be very hard not to get stuck in some of the ... read more

Fraser Island Wednesday 4th Today started normally with Cohen and I getting up at 6 am to have breakfast. Yes you read right, we get up at 6 am every morning. I know we are on holidays but we can't help ourselves. Once the sun is up we are up. Today we are going to spend the day at the rocks at Waddy Point. We were delayed a little as we had a flash thunderstorm. It started pouring at 10 am or so and it was over in 30 mins. We were on the road or bush track by 11.30 am and we headed to the Indian Head beach and started looking for pippies. Man these pippies are harder to find than dingoes. We were supposed to look for small round heaps in the sand as ... read more

Fraser Island Monday 2nd May 2016 Today Paul, Cohen and I got up early, before the sun did, and got ready to go and do some serious fishing (I am joking off course) We had jigs, bait and anything else you needed. We had to walk as our cars had so many awnings and ropes attached to them that we could not move them. Also we did not want to wake the girls out of their beds. Now that would have been a bad idea. The walk was about one and a half kilometres. Easy walk first thing in the morning. On the way we found the first sign that there were dingoes on the island. There were dog tracks leading to the tent camping area (not our area as we have a protective fence around ... read more

Fraser Island Friday 29th April 2016 Today we woke up to rain. It was not cold, probably about 22/23 degrees. Today is the last full day at Dundaburra. Nothing planned today. Paul, Steve and I took the kids by walk to the beach after having set up our fishing rods. Taking them to this beach is like putting your life in the hand of nature and humans. Nature wants to get you through a rising tide and humans are trying to run you over with their big cars. I think I put in my expensive lure ( one that my brother in law Xavier had helped me buy. I nearly needed to mortgage my car to buy it Hahaha) into the ocean about four times and then both Paul and I gave up. No fish. We ... read more

Woke up at 6 am and went for a walk to the Wungul Sandblow which was a 2 km round trip with Cohen. It was incredible. We walked through a kilometre of bush and then all of a sudden we see this expanse of sand. Unbelievable. And what is worst I didn't have my camera. We will go back in the next few days with the others.After breakfast Paul set up his fishing rod and we went to the beach to fish. Paul went into the surf and had to keep an eye on the cars going past. It was quite dangerous with the kids playing on a sandbank in the middle of the sand with cars driving around us. It was like we were playing on the median strip. We didn't stay there long and ... read more