Fraser Island 21st-23rd

World heritage listed Fraser island is a travel "must" for the East coast but sadly, would be more fun if it was more remote and had fewer tourists- like a lot of places. It's believed to be the largest sand islands in the world. (Wilkipedia says "believed", you'd think they'd know wouldn't you?) It's 120x 28km and famous for the beautiful fresh water lakes, the beaches, creeks, rainforest, mangroves and eucalypt woodland- a surprising amount of variation for a patch of sand!

It's not far from Rainbow beach to the ferry. The ferry leaves straight off a beach with absolutely nothing in the way of docking, you simply drive on from the sand, off in the same way...which is why it's 4WD only.


The beaches make the best road- they're reasonably flat but vary, the rules of the mainland highways apply although you can drive anywhere you want- just looking out for children playing and people fishing. Inland the roads are rough sandy tracks within the forest, single lane and we had many hold ups when people had got bogged in the sand and had to be towed out.

Lake McKenzie was first stop, a beautiful place to swim and sunbathe; later into the rainforest for a walk.