After the Whitsundays, I spent two days, one night on Fraser Island. As many of you probably know, Fraser Island is a huge sandy island. All the vegetation and sights are dominated by the sand. But it is not all one big dessert - there is of course the beach, but also forests and fresh water lakes formed within the sand dunes. This all creates wonderful landscapes - and all very different from each other!
Transportation on the island is by 4x4 cars - all driving happens on the beach or on sandy tracks - no paved roads here. Unfortunately this has become an attraction by itself - loads of people come for the "self drive tours on Fraser" - and some of them get pretty stuck in the sand... (but maybe that is just a comment from somebody who went for the boring, guided option!) Traffic happens in the middle of activity: there are people fishing, then people driving and then people camping - all on the same beach, next to each other, with the cars slaloming around the fisher and the people. It works, but it also looks scary at times!
In the two days we had time to go for walks in the forest, watch the views and go for lovely swims in the fresh water lakes. I especially enjoyed lake Mc Kennzie: crystal clear water (you could see the sandy bottom even several meters down), surrounded by trees and the beach was white, white, white!
As usual, I believe the pictures tell more than what I could ever do:
The end of the trip was a bit sad and scary: there were uncontrolled bush fires in the south of the island. To get back to the ferry we had to drive along the burning area - in the end we all came out safe, but smelling of smoke and coughing... and the pictures of the sunset are a bit unusual as well....
All Fraser pictures are located here.
Transportation on the island is by 4x4 cars - all driving happens on the beach or on sandy tracks - no paved roads here. Unfortunately this has become an attraction by itself - loads of people come for the "self drive tours on Fraser" - and some of them get pretty stuck in the sand... (but maybe that is just a comment from somebody who went for the boring, guided option!) Traffic happens in the middle of activity: there are people fishing, then people driving and then people camping - all on the same beach, next to each other, with the cars slaloming around the fisher and the people. It works, but it also looks scary at times!
In the two days we had time to go for walks in the forest, watch the views and go for lovely swims in the fresh water lakes. I especially enjoyed lake Mc Kennzie: crystal clear water (you could see the sandy bottom even several meters down), surrounded by trees and the beach was white, white, white!
As usual, I believe the pictures tell more than what I could ever do:
The end of the trip was a bit sad and scary: there were uncontrolled bush fires in the south of the island. To get back to the ferry we had to drive along the burning area - in the end we all came out safe, but smelling of smoke and coughing... and the pictures of the sunset are a bit unusual as well....
All Fraser pictures are located here.
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