The famous multicoloured sands

Fraser Island

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November 3rd 2005
We stayed one night in Hervey Bay before embarking on a two day guided trip to Fraser Island just off the coast there. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and has miles of beach ( not that you can swim in the sea on account of the currents and Tiger Sharks ), rainforest, lakes, marshland, sand blows etc. The trip mostly involved being bounced along sand tracks in the back of a b ... read more

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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