Fraser Island Vacations, Fraser Island Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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.

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 these crazy sandy paths, lots of bumps which made everyone in the back of the truck bounce right off their seats, load shouts of "Extreme" everytime. There were 7 of us doing it together (Me, Mat, B...

  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 120km. The only way to explore it, other than hiking, is by 4x4, so we picked the cheapest, and most popular, for backpackers, hiring a 4x4 self-drive, shared between 10 people. Our day-long trip...

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 ride from Hervey Bay we arrived on the western side of the island when our 4 wheel drive bus set off for the day. The ride was very slow and bumpy, but amazingly Reagan fell asleep.Our first stop wa...