Fraser Island Travel Blogs

On this day we had a 4WD safari on Fraser Island, so it was an early rise, 6:00am. At 7:45am, the 4WD bus left the hotel, in full sunshine and clear skies, housing all but 4 of our group, as they were taking the tour in a separate 4WD jeep. The jeep first had to drive to the ferry and then we …

We, my travelmate Wilma and I, made plans together to see a lot of Australia. The country is so big that we decided to see only a few parts of it. We started in Hong Kong (stop-over), Saw Darwin, Uluru, Cape york to Cairns, Great barrier reef and drove along the coast to Brisbane.

Next morning, we all got up pretty early to check out and meet up in the TV room for the tour introductions.  I chose to use Palace Adventures mainly because they were cheap and I could book online.  There are plenty more to choose from, in fact all backpackers have their own 4x4 self dri…

This past weekend was the ANZAC day long weekend so naturally I had to take a trip somewhere. Made impulse decision to meet up with another traveller in Hervey Bay, Queensland on Thursday. From there you book into trips to Fraser Island, a World Heritage site. We booked a 3 day, 2 night camping tri…

Just got back from 3 days, 2 nights camping, 4wd adventure on Fraser Island. It was absolutely stunning! The whole island is made from sand, lots of bush land too. Saw lots of beautiful lakes, creeks etc... I drove part of the way, it was awesome! Drove along the beach which was beautiful and down …

This morning we boarded the 4WD 40 seater bus for a day of touring around the island. Since the island is a giant mound of sand and it's a world heritage sight, there are no real "roads". There are pathways made of sand. We hadn't been driving for 5 minutes when we came across some tourists th…

Hi everyone, from Noosa we headed for Rainbow Beach (Gateway to Fraser Island). Once we arrived, we checked into Dingo's Hostel, our Tour Meeting wasn't until 4.30pm so we had a few games of pool to kill a bit of time.Later on we had to sit through a boring video and learn all of the safety pre…

  Fraser Island was always going to be one of the highlights of our trip up the east coast, but I hadn't foreseen it being such a rollercoaster and a fight against the elements...and the sand. This, I suppose, is hardly surprising, seen as it's the world's biggest sand island, at 15km by …

Easter Holiday we traveled to Byron Bay for the Blues Festival, Surfers Paradise, and Frasier Island! Great fun!

The largest sand Island in the world lies off the coast of Hervey Bay, named Fraser Island it is over 100 kilometres long and made purely of sand. I had been on a camping holiday when I was younger but Trish wanted to see it also, therefore we arranged a day trip to the island. Sfter a short ferry …

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After those of us (under 20s) who weren't allowed to drive stopped sulking (joking!) we set off from the Fraser Escape Hostel in convoy with the other two groups that were going at the same time as us, to the barge to take us cross the Great Sandy Straits, a 30 minute boat trip that landed us on Fr…

Nous avons fait un départ tardif en raison de la marée haute qui réduit l'autoroute à néant à certains endroits. Aujourd'hui, nous ferons de l'autoroute toute la journée (c'est-à-dire la plage ferme côté mer). Nous faisons quelques courts arrêts en route vers notre lieu de visite princip…

Spent the weekend in Fraser island.... Monica and I started off pretty early with a bus ride up to Brisbane where we joined up with another bus (a huge 4 wheel drive) to head up further on the coast to Rainbow beach.  Around the area of rainbow beach, we caught a very short 10 minute ferry ri…

Got to the 4x4 place and had to spend ages going through all the gear and checking everything was working and marking off problems with the car etc etc. Hit the road and headed for the barge to take us to the island. The barge was nice and gave good views of the island en route. Disembarked and hit…