Fraser Island a top ten experience

" The World's largest sand island is a World Heritage icon that packages all the best that Australia has to offer" said the brochure. From bitter experience ( Luxembourg eclipse 1999 comes to mind) we have learnt not to carried away by the hype but this one actually lived up to expectations.


Here is our Fraser Explorer bus. It was incredible that we drove about 200km along sand during the day. Judging by Jessica and Alex here this was after about 180 km worth when we stopped to look at the coloured sands (not as good as Alum Bay IOW and no chance to fill up a cat/ guitar or lighthouse shaped piece of glass either)



Having spent half a term looking at pictures of rainforests in books with 8C at Marchwood it was great to walk through the real thing. You can see it inspired Tina so be prepared for some predominantly green pieces of abstract art.



Lake Mackenzie! Apparently voted 7th best place in the World to Swim. Not sure that I've been to the top six, unless Cleethorpes is included so this will have to be our number one. Here is our attempt to emulate the front of the brochure. We failed.

Not sure about blogging this one. That ain't no six pack down there but the smile is genuine. The sand is white. The water is freshwater and blue and the surroundings idyllic. We managed to shoot in the opposite direction to the 200 other people enjoying the solitude and tranquility and I drowned out the sounds by plugging in my MP3 player. My desert Island discs? Coldplay "Clocks" and Smokebelch "Sabres of paradise" (You'd know it if you heard it. They play it on the holiday programme about six times a series)