Shipwreck - Fraser Island

Australia - Hervey Bay & Fraser Island

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June 19th 2007
We arrived in Hervey Bay at 4pm on Wednesday 6 June and checked into Kookaburra's Backpackers. It was still raining heavily so we just hung around the hostel and watched Traffic in the TV room that evening. We sat outside the front of the hostel with two Irish girls who worked there and had a couple of drinks before going to bed. We woke up on Thursday to the sound of rain so we spent some time on ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay » 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