Frazer Island Travel Guide

  Lake McKenzie, my first experience
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  • Lake McKenzie, my first experience
      Lake McKenzie, my first experience
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  • 75 miles beach
      75 miles beach
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  • Lake Wabby, sand dune, lake, ocean, forest...
      Lake Wabby, sand dune, lake, ocean,...
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  • Beach drive
      Beach drive
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  •   Things to Do
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Explore Frazer Island

Things to Do  

Day 2- car rent guide

Day 2- car rent guide, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Depart Kingfisher Bay and drive 4km to make a right hand turn towards Central Station. Drive a further 7,5km to Pile Valley and see if some of your passengers would like to make the 50min walk along the Wanggoolba Creek and you can pick them up at your next stop, Central... 

Day 1- car rent guide

Day 1- car rent guide, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Depart Kingfisher Bay and drive 4km to make a right hand turn towards Central Station. Drive further 5km and make the right hand turn to Lake McKenzie. Lake McKenzie is by far Frazer Islands most well known lake. It has most beautifull white sand and extremely clear water.... 

Lake Wabby

Lake Wabby, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Lake Wabby was the most amazing lake we have seen. To get to this lake you must make 1km walk through forest, suddenly the forest ends and immidiately starts a huge sand dune. You need just to climb over it and you are by the lake. The scenery is great. You can make a... 

Lake Birrabeen

Lake Birrabeen, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Another of Frazer Island's most beautiful lakes is lake Birrabeen. It is a very popular tourist destination for visitors because of its lovely fresh water and dazzling white sand. The white sand is silica, formed by the purification of the sand due to the rise and fall of... 

Central Station

Central Station, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Central Station, located next to the beautiful Wangoolba Creek was the central Forestry Department Station from 1920-1959. It was a settlement for the loggers who worked on Frazer Island and supported 32 buildings including a school for the children in the area. All of the... 

Frazer's forests

Frazer's forests, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Frazer's forests are one of the island's most remarkable and controversial features. Though the island was heavilly logged, large stands of Satinay and brush box still remain. Pile Valley, between Central Station and Lake McKenzie, where much of the logging took place, has... 

Maheno Shipwreck

Maheno Shipwreck, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  At 5300 tons, the Maheno is a ship that lies, wrecked, on the eastern beach just south of the Pinnacles. It was buit in 1905 and operated as part of the Union Steamship Company's Trans-Tasman fleet. In 1907 it established a new record time between Auckland and Sydney, two... 

Pinnacles

Pinnacles, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Just north of Happy Valley, in amongst the glorious coloured sands stands a giant spectacle of sand towers and spires, representing the 72 different shades of sand in what they call The Pinnacles. The colouring of the sand is accounted for as oxides of iron and decayed... 

Indian Head

Indian Head, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Make the climb to Indian Head and you'll have a spectacular view of 75 mile beach. Beneath the headlands are large sharks, stingrays and a variety of other marine life which on a clear day can be seen looming beneath the cliff face. Rich in history Indian Head is believed to... 

Lake McKenzie

Lake McKenzie, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Lake McKenzie is one of the Islands perched lakes. This type of lake is very rare, it was formed by the wind chanelling out large hollows in amongst the dunes. Decaying vegetation was blown onto these depressions by the wind. The rain reacted with sand and over a huge period... 

75 miles phantasy

75 miles phantasy, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  Take a drive along the 75- miles- beach.It is just a dream about freedom and wilderness. On one side you see just forest and sand dunes, other side you see ocean. But it is not the ocean inviting you for a swim, it is the ocean, which just tries to tell you LET ME BE! it is... 

Hotels  

Kingfisher bay resort: Not again

Kingfisher bay resort: Not again, Frazer Island

 JustPerfect Says:  This place is wrong here. It doesn't fit at all. It is like in Canary Islands, huge resort full of fat tourists, who are not interested on this place at all.We rented here a villa and did not go to the hotel again. In our bedroom were desperate smelling beds and sheats.... 

Transportation  

Car rent
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Aussie Trax VITARA

There are just few cars admit on this island, because of nature, so make your reservations soon.
We made the reservation almost one month before our travel and did not get a car we wished to have.
If you wish to come with your car, it must be good 4 wheel drive.
We made a very good experience with Assie Trax, right here on Frazer island.

Written Feb 27, 2006

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Warnings and Dangers  

Low/ High Tide
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Before you make your drive on the beach, ask which time is low and high tide. During high tide you can not pass the beach, so it can happen that you would be cuted off the rest of the island.
Have all the time watch with you and care how long your drive takes.

Written Feb 27, 2006

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