Lake Wabby

We visited here on the third day, its whats called a Barrage Lake as the huge sand blow you can see beside it is encroaching on the land and what used to be a river is now Lake Wabby. We later walked over this sandblow to the ocean beach to meet our bus -that was fun in the midday sun!The sand is being moved by 16km + winds and moves about 1metre a year or something

Fraser Island

January 22nd 2006
Fraser island is lovely and as our tour guide (Ranger Rob) pointed out often is a natural phenomenon. We went on a 3 day guided tour here with the cool dingo tour company and had a great time. Fraser island is the largest sand island in the world, approximately 124km by 15 km and required 4 x 4 buses to get us around. It is comprised entirely of sand apart from three rock formations(Indian head 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

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