Hello everyone. On February 13, we spent 4 days and 3 nights on Fraser Island. It is about 4 hrs north of the Gold Coast. Here is a little info about the island. We will hopefully update later, explaining some of the pictures that are not so clear.

The thing to keep in mind about Fraser Island is that it's all sand. There's no soil, no clay and only two or three small rocky outcrops. It's one gigantic, 120km by 15km foliated sand bar-the world's largest, and it was inscribed as such on the World's Heritage List in 1993.

Fraser Island is a delight for those who love fishing, walking, exploring by 4WD or for those who simply enjoy nature. Some of the sandblows (large drifting dunes) are magnificent, while much of the island is densely forested with an amazing variety of tree and plant types, many of which are only to be found on Fraser Island. There are also about 200 lakes, some of them superb for swimming, which is just as well since the sea is a definite no-go; there are lethal undertows as well as man-eating sharks. Other wildlife is abundant, including 40 different mammal species and more insects and reptiles than you want to know about.

To the Butchulla Aborigines, the island was known as K'gari (which translates as "Paradise") after the spirit who helped the great god Beeral create the earth and other worlds. K'gari loved earth so much she asked Beeral to let her live there and so he changed her into a beautiful island with trees and animals for company and limpid lakes for eyes through which she could gaze up at the heavens, her former home.

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