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Hopping to Fraser Island

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May 7th 2007
From Rainbow beach we made another bus journey to Hervey Bay, the jump point to Fraser Island. Hervey Bay itself isn't a very interesting town and on arrival I thought it seemed quite American as when you enter your just on a massive road lined with big shops and takeaways. The hostel we stayed in was luckily away from this area and right next to the beach!! it was really quite nice and we discov ... 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