#251
Amanda Bryant
2009-01-13
Fraser Island is a fantastic place! It's just beautiful. Would love to go back and visit again. Is a great place to relax and get away from the everyday stress.
Take a trip to Fraser Island
Wind down your window and throw away your normal city roads and suburban worries. Fraser Island will teach you all about wide open pristine spaces, unspoilt beauty, lush rainforests, stunning freshwater lakes and the exhilaration of driving on sand, not monotonous bitumen.
The world’s largest sand island is a haven for adventure. Explore in your own 4WD or take a tour bus or even a H3 Hummer. Tackle the inland bumps and humps through towering satinay trees, abundant forest and picturesque sand dunes. Enjoy an invigorating swim in the emerald waters of Lake Wabby where Hammerstone Sandblow forms a wall of sand at its base. Lake Mackenzie shines sapphire blue, blessed with shores of snow-white sand.
On the quiet side of the island, blend seamlessly with nature at the award winning eco resort, Kingfisher Bay Resort and village. They offer a range of accommodation, restaurants, tours and activities. On the eastern side of the island, 4WD enthusiasts, fishermen and families enjoy campsites with rolling surf views and endless kilometres of sand highway.
Shipwrecks and sheltered bays flash by your window but be sure to stop and enjoy the view. Climb Indian Head and gaze down upon schools of fish, sharks, dolphins, rays and turtles, enjoying their own sea safari. They are probably having just as much fun as you.
Getting there:
Access to Fraser Island is from Hervey Bay or Rainbow Beach.
Hervey Bay is located 290km north of Brisbane and accessed by road, rail and air. TravelTrain has regular Tilt Train services into Maryborough with direct connections to Hervey Bay on the TrainLink coach.
By train:
To book your Tilt Train rail adventure call Traveltrain Holidays on 1800 627 655.
Further information:
Kingfisher Bay run vehicle barges from River Heads, about 15mins north of Maryborough on the road to Hervey Bay. The barge crossing from River Heads to Kingfisher Bay, Fraser Island, takes approximately 45minutes.
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Voters Comments
Amanda Bryant
#252
Nancy Hamilton
2009-01-13
Fraser Island is the most beautiful place with the lakes, the rainforests, and the animals (especially the dingoes)all together in this amazing place and who can forget the fishing.
#253
Donna Walters
2009-01-13
We took the kids then 5y & 3y and our own 4wd. We stayed at King Fisher Resort and had a ball. The accomodation was excellent with young kids. The tracks were great for 4wdriving. We had somewhere to go everyday and somewhere to come back to and relax in comfort. We were self contained and could buy supplies from the shop at the resort or go out to dinner. It was our son's 5th birthday while we were there, so we went out for a birthday dinner and the staff really made a fuss. We took a video diary of the holiday and the kids love watching it as they are 14 and 12 now!
#254
sam gibson
2009-01-13
Has been year since we have been camping up at Fraser but still is one the best trip we ever did!
#255
ray becker
2009-01-13
the initials F I - flamin' incredible.
#256
Terry Baker
2009-01-13
Nature at it's best.
#257
Aune Larikka
2009-01-13
It's realy worth to go there
#258
jason thorburn
2009-01-13
if you like camping and fishing with plenty of other interesting things to see along the way Fraser island is agreat place to visit.
#259
Lara Tabua
2009-01-13
This is a definite must for every Queenslander, there are so many varied and beautiful environments in one island.
#260
Rachael Mauger
2009-01-13
This is God's country.....beautiful.