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Explore the transcendent World Heritage-listed Fraser Island
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Travel Essentials
- the largest sand island in the world. Stand next to the colossal, furrowed trunk of an ancient tree more than 1200 years old as you explore one of the most awe-inspiring islands on earth with its beautiful blue-hued, freshwater lakes and coloured sand dunes.
VEHICLE & CAMPING PERMITS All vehicles require an access permit and National Park campers must have a prepurchased camping permit attached to their tent. Permits can be obtained: online nprsr.qld.gov.au/fraser, by phoning 137468, or at Visitor Information Centres. For a full list of locations: recreation.npsr. qld.gov.au/booking-offices .
DINGOES Particular caution should be taken with the island’s dingoes. Do not feed, provoke or encourage the dingoes and stay close to children. If approached, face the dingo and retreat calmly. Heavy fines apply for interacting with dingoes.
ACCOMMODATION National Park campgrounds are located at Waddy Point, Dundubara, Wathumba, Central Station and Lake Boomanjin. Beach camping is allowed where signed. Fraser Island also offers excellent private accommodation options from holiday
houses and units at Orchid Beach, Happy Valley and Eurong to the awardwinning Kingfisher Bay Resort.
ACCESS Self-drive: A four-wheel-drive vehicle is essential on Fraser Island as almost all roads are sand tracks. Reasonable undervehicle clearance is necessary. 4WD hire vehicles are available from Hervey Bay, Eurong and Kingfisher Bay Resort. Offroad camper trailers are allowed, however caravans are discouraged. Air: Air charters and transfers depart from Hervey Bay Airport. All air charters and transfers should be pre-booked. Barges: Barges take vehicles and passengers each day from River Heads to Kingfisher Bay and Wanggoolba Creek. Bookings are essential for barges departing from River Heads. Private boats can moor off the island with jetty facilities dotted around the shores.
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Fraser Island K’gari Fraser Island marked the 25th anniversary of its World Heritage Listing in December, 2017. This ancient place, the largest sand island in the world, offers incredible experiences. DID YOU KNOW? You’ll never forget the wonder you feel when you let your eyes drink in the beauty of the blue hues of Fraser Island’s Lake McKenzie, or gaze for the first time at the tops of the towering ancient trees in the Valley of the Giants or experience the thrill of zooming along 75 Mile Beach - which doubles as a fourwheel-drive highway and a landing strip for light aircraft. Hosting modern resorts and attractions, carefully managed to preserve the pristine beauty, the island is home to relics from 200 million years ago, including the magnificent giant King Fern which reputedly has the largest fronds of any fern on earth. Crystal-clear, freshwater streams fed by the water table and rainforest trees literally growing out of the sand are matched with an, at times, alien landscape created by huge sand blows from winds belting across the Pacific.
The clean air and smell of the ocean belie its strength, with the corroding wreck of the hospital ship Maheno a silent and constant reminder. Even the most experienced traveller will be inspired by this place, lying just south of the Great Barrier Reef and off the coast of Hervey Bay. It stretches for 123km and is 22km wide at its widest point. The island has been built up over 800,000 years of tidal action. It is the world’s largest and oldest dune-building sequence. The traditional owners, the Butchulla people, named the island K’gari which means paradise. Birds are the most abundant form of animal life seen on the island with more than 350 migratory and coastal species recorded but visitors may also spot the famous Fraser Island dingoes, humpback whales off its coast, swamp wallabies, possums, flying foxes, soldier crabs, turtles, dolphins, manta rays and dugongs.
There are many ways to experience the island’s exceptional landscapes • take a self-drive getaway • join a guided tour • go on a camping safari • book a room at a resort • explore the island on foot through part or all of the 90km Fraser Island Great Walk.
Much of the water from the annual average rainfall of 1600mm is absorbed into an enormous domeshaped water table below the dunes. Some of this water may be stored 30m or more below sea level and for up to 100 years before resurfacing.
Daily barge services run to the island from Hervey Bay with a trip to the main resort taking about 50 minutes while the journey for four-wheel-drive enthusiasts to Wanggoolba Creek is about 30 minutes.
DID YOU KNOW? Fraser Island was the secret training ground of Z Special Unit, the forerunner to Australia’s Special Air Service commandos, which carried out one of the most audacious raids behind enemy lines in Singapore Harbour during World War II. Remnants can still be seen near McKenzie’s Jetty on the western side of the island.
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