This is another top get away destination off the coast of Queensland.

4WD Enthusiasts come here from everywhere to have a ball with their Machines.A Barge takes all the vehicles from the Mainland across to Frazer Island.Not only 4WDers but anybody who wants to get away from the Hum Drum of normal Suburbia.The mainBeach is 70 Miles long,hence the attraction for these Vehicles.Some more info.

FRASER ISLAND AUSTRALIA -
Fraser Island, Australia is the largest sand island in the world being 124Km long and covering an area of 163,000 hectares. The island offers many styles of accommodation including Kingfisher Bay Resort, Eurong Beach Resort, Fraser Island Beach Houses and Fraser Island Hideaway.

This Australian island encompasses an amazing variety of landscapes, long surf beaches, cliffs and gorges in shades of orange, red, yellow and pure white sand, dense rainforests, vast, desert-like sandblows, freshwater lakes perched high up in its dunes, winding streams, great basalt headlands and salt pans with eerie mangrove forests.

Scientists believe Fraser Island has developed over a period of approximately 800,000 years. Its sand comes from the tablelands of northern New South Wales, washed into the sea by the big rivers of that area, and strong sea currents carry it north to Queensland, Australia.

Sand is the Fraser Island's foundation, but water is its life force, giving rise to the island's vast tracts of forest. Fraser Island has an abundance of freshwater in its many lakes and crystal clear creeks and streams. Pristine clear mirror lakes and the peat- coloured perched lakes, are some of the largest of their kind in the world. Across the broad stretches of the ocean beach and running through the cool shady havens of the rainforest, comes the flow of the island's many creeks and streams.

Water has allowed the creation of exceptional rainforests, growing in sand and surviving on nutrients from the breakdown of other plants. Towering satinay and brush box are among the forest giants, some over a thousand years old. The variety of vegetation on Fraser Island is exceptional, ranging from mangroves to kauri forests and wallum heathlands that fill with wildflowers in the early Spring.

The beaches and forests are the habitat of more than 230 species of birds - one of the largest and most varied bird communities in Australia. Isolation from the mainland has also ensured the purity of the Fraser Island's dingo population.

Now listed as an Australian World Heritage site, Fraser Island joins the ranks of the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Kakadu National Parks as being of universal significance as the largest coastal dune system and sand island in the world and for its special environments. As a precious part of Australia's natural and cultural heritage, it is protected for all to appreciate, enjoy and respect.

What a beautiful place. I think I've got to get there.

that photo's just amazing! Hopefully this year I can include that in our travel plans, or at least make it to our top ten wish list!

Aaah. That truly gives new meaning to the word 'paradise', DSTM - beautiful!!

Glad you liked the pic. I found my visit most enjoyable. Here are a few more of Frazer Island.On the right of the page,click on Frazer,then click Search at the bottom of page.Some aren't, but just mouse over and it tells you which ones are.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=...9AU249%26sa%3DN

Of course I have to ask: Did you jettison that floatsam I see mucking up the beach on your return trip?

Besides it needs another three years in the ocean to become an Objects De Art.

(Nice Pics - thanks!)

I wanna go!

that is a really nice picture. i'd love to visit australia someday. my aunt stays there and she been bugging me to visit her for the past few months.maybe i will very soon.

Matthew - do it!! Listen to your aunt......

It looks like a wonderful place to be DSTM and I sure could use a trip to a place as beautiful as this. I have a problem with it though, I checked air fare to Australia, YIKES!!! When I win the lottery I'll be over to visit but don't get the guest room ready quite yet.