Saturday, May 14, 2005

Australia | Fraser Island

SYDNEY - BLUE MOUNTAINS - BRISBANE - FRASER ISLAND

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FRASER ISLAND -My cousin Savo and I drove up north 300 kilometers to a small township of Hervey Bay. Just before we entered the town we stopped by the Go-Cart place to have some fun and shorty after we checked in our backpackers hostel next to the port. We looked into many different options how to get to the FRASER island. Hervey Bay is the gateway to Fraser and many travelers start their journey here. We chose to fly-4wd-fly package.

Fraser Island is the largest sand-formed island on the planet with a 75 mile long sand beach, many creeks and fresh water lakes, rain forest and the purest strain of DINGO in Australia. The Fraser Island is on the World Heritage list as well.

Anyway, 15 minutes later Savo and I were flying over the most beautiful beaches and lakes I've ever seen. Savo was a co-pilot for the duration of the flight. We landed our little airplane right on the beach and our 4WD was waiting to take us to our first destination, Lake McKenzie.


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Lake McKenzie is about 15km inland from the coast but it took us about 35 minutes to get there. While other travelers were sunbathing on the fresh-water sandy beach, my cousin and I decided to take a hike and walk around the entire lake. Following the Dingo tracks, it took us over two hours and this adventure included some bush-walking, survival message writings in the sand and swimming in the fresh water. It was amazing.

After lunch we drove up to the Indian Head point, about 70km north from out base camp. On the way up we stopped by the rusty old shipwreck and climbed a moon landscape alike dunes. This is for real. I am not kidding. The dingo's were everywhere. Well, I guess I am exaggerating but we did see few dingos hunting for a snack:). Next thing you know it was getting dark so we had to get back to our resort since night driving is not allowed on the island.

The weather was not on our side the following day. It was very cold and raining. Savo and I took our fair well drive and almost got stuck on the island due to a 4WD battery failure. Thanks to a local fisherman we managed to start-up our vehicle and made the flight back to Hervey Bay...

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SYDNEY - BLUE MOUNTAINS - BRISBANE - FRASER ISLAND

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