Fraser Island

Basil Faulty · Guru

Fraser Island

dave06 · Guru

hmmm! Fraser, wasnt really high on my to do list and probably wont get there after the impending retirement with the motorhome, so may take a tour for the old and feeble, sounds like a plan Basil, thanks for the heads up

Wombat 280 · Guru

Basil Faulty wrote:

All the discussion re KI I thought I'd air my knowledge on FI.
Cheaper to get there, fuel extortionatley priced, lots to see, 4X4 essential.... In fact if I ever went again I'd leave mine behind and either take a tour or hire one. I'm still getting sand out of my Jackeroo years later, despite regulations about removing sand....NO PETS ALLOWED..... Heaps of HUBRIS re swimming in the surf, no more sharks off Fraser than any other place. Dingos can be a PITA, sure cute and photogenic but believe me if you leave so much as a shadow behind they will steal it....
Roads are all just tracks in the sand except for about 100meters of tar outside a resort. The scenery is spectacular and generally well worth a visit. Unless you are going to bushwalk (nude bushwalking not reccomended) OR FISH then 3 days is more than enough to see everything, as I said take a tour....
Watch the idiots on the beach, very high idiot factor here. Hoons hooning along the beach while other idiots lay in the middle of the beach sunbathing. Akin to laying down your towel on any major surburban street and sunbathing thereon....

Every off shore location is as dear as poision, once they have you there the old cash register plays a merry tune , Have mates who live on the islands in Morten Bay , Karra and Russel , Karra has bugger all in the way of shops or fuel outlets so every time they go to the mainland they take 4 jerry cans for both car and boat fuel . Russel has a full set of shops and fuel but Ned kellys offspring own the leases I'm sure , Same deal when the Russel islanders go to the mainland they take jerry cans as fuel on the mainland is hell of a lot cheaper, the island price represents a transport cost equal to using the space shuttle to deliver it .

PITA living on and island unless you want to hide from something or someone .

I have found one place dearer than them all , the NSW Snow Fields. Don't go without the Gold Amex card