Saturday 28th July –Coloured Sands and Fraser Island
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Linda's Travels, Queensland, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »We drove along the beach past the Coloured Sands North of Noosa. Accessible only by 4x4, this is the most direct route to Inskip Point and Fraser Island from Noosa Heads. The sandstone formations of Coloured Sands display several layers ...
Sunday 29th July –Central Station, Basin Lake, Lake McKenzie and the Maheno Wreck
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Linda's Travels, Queensland, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia, Video, Wompoo, YouTube | No Comments »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 ...
Monday 30th July –Indian Heads, Eli Creek and Lake Wabby
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Linda's Travels, Queensland, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »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 ...
Tuesday 31st July –Kingfisher Bay Resort, Dingoes and Hervey Bay
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, General, Linda's Travels, Queensland, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia, Video, YouTube | 1 Comment »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 ...
Fraser Island - Car Extraction
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, General, Linda's Travels, Queensland, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | 2 Comments »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 ...
The Wompoo
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Queensland, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia, Wildlife, Wompoo | 1 Comment »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 ...
Fraser Island – In Summary
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Queensland, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »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 ...
Fraser Island – Day 4
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Queensland, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »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 ...
Fraser Island – Day 3
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Queensland, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »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 ...
Fraser Island - Day 1
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Fraser Island, Queensland, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia, Travelling Australia | No Comments »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 ...