Holiday and Travel information for Fraser Island

Fraser Island lies of the south east coast of Queensland in Australia’s north. It is the world’s largest sand island and is world heritage listed to protect the unique scenery and wildlife that exists here. Fraser Island is a photographers dream with miles of ocean beaches, rocky headlands, dense rainforest and pristine freshwater lakes. This is the only place in the world where rainforest grows in sand and the white silica sands filter the rain water for two hundred years before it flows out to sea in crystal clear streams or forms ulra blue lakes of sensational clarity. There are no made roads on Fraser Island. In the past it has been a timber logging center and a sand mining resource and the tracks left by these industries are now the highways travelled by the four wheel drive tours buses that are the industries of today.

Fraser Island is accessed from either Hervey Bay or Rainbow Beach. If you want to access the area by air then you will fly into the Fraser Coast airport in Hervey Bay and from here your transfers to the island will be either by fast cat from the Urangan boat harbour to Kingfisher Bay resort or by vehicular ferry from River Heads. Camping is allowed on Fraser Island so you have lots of choices. Many tourists choose to hire their own four wheel drive vehicle and camping equipment from Hervey Bay or join an organized camping tour. Other visitors may choose to stay in one of the several resorts on the island or even rent a holiday house on the island for the duration of their stay.

The wild life on Fraser Island is unique. This is the home of the purest breed of dingo’s left in Australia. Most of Australia’s other unique wildlife also calls the island home. The ocean beaches are a fisherman’s paradise and there are always people out fishing for Dart, Flathead and Tailor in the many gutters along the beachfront. Pipi shells are also plentiful. The ocean beach is also the islands major arterial road and there is a constant stream of traffic from Inskip Point in the south past Eurong Beach resort, Cathederal Beach resort, Happy Valley and on to Indian Head and Orchid Beach in the north. Fraser Island is one of Australia’s premier beauty spots and a popular local holiday destination with many families returning here year after year. Accommodation is limited so if you want to enjoy the majesty of Fraser Island then you should book as early as possible.