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Fraser Island: the must-stop destination for all gap year students and four wheel drive enthusiasts.

We drove along the beach past the Coloured Sands North of Noosa. Accessible only by 4×4, this is the most direct route to Inskip Point and Fraser Island from Noosa Heads. The sandstone formations of Coloured Sands display several layers of red, white and yellow rock. The local aboriginal legend is that a young woman, [...]

The boardwalk from central station to Basin Lake is well frequented but the lake itself is extremely secluded and still. There is no watercourse running to or from the lake which makes it something like an amphitheatre. Rob spotted a freshwater turtle whilst we were there and a large sea eagle kept watch as we [...]

Shortly after high tide in the morning, we drove to Indian Heads to take in the fantastic vista. Much to my disappointment, we were still unable to spot any of the migrating humpback whales. We then thought that we might continue on to Wabby Point. A minor description on the QLD Parks map said something [...]

The drive to Kingfisher Bay was bumpy and long but nothing could prepare us for the state of the road on entry to the resort. The wooden boards had fallen to pieces and we crashed down the steep road at various extreme angles shaking the car violently from side to side.
We booked our ferry [...]

Digging your car out of the sand
On Fraser Island, unless you are driving a moon buggy, you will get stuck from time to time. Your first option is to befriend a much better prepared fisherman who will take the time out from gutting fish and skulling beer to tow you out of the deep soft [...]

As I mentioned in my article about the first day we spent on Fraser Island, while we were walking back through the rainforest to Central Station, we saw a bird which my bird book suggests is a Wompoo.
This bird was good enough to hang around while we took some photographic evidence to help identification too [...]

Our visit to Fraser Island was enjoyable and we spent a coupe of extra days there as there is so much to see and do, this is a brief itemisation of our trip
Fraser Island Day One
Ferry from Inskip Point
Drive to Central Station – where we camped

Fraser Island Day Two
Rainforest walk from Central Station to Basin [...]

Our fourth and final day on Fraser Island comprised us driving back down the beach – again past the Maheno Shipwreck et al – to the main route across Fraser Island which we would traverse to Kingfisher Bay where the return leg of our ferry journey would be booked and caught.
The first thing we saw, [...]

The third day of our stay on Fraser Island could have been extremely frustrating. Indeed, we ended up on about Plan F by the time we managed to get anywhere, but despite all this, we were feeling relaxed, and really could not fail to find something to see or do.
Due to a late low tide, [...]

After our second night in Noosa, we wanted to get to Fraser Island, to take in the world heritage listed sandiness for ourselves. We found a great route to do this.
The lady at the useful tourist information centre in Noosa told us that Inskip Point was the nearest place at which we could cross to [...]