Fraser Island in Australia. Where is the island of Fraser and his story? Australia. Freshwater lakes island

Already went on the second week of our travel in Australia. Surveying the western part of Australia and then, having acquainted with Sydney and its main attractions, we flew to the north - in the town of Hervey Bay, located almost in the center of the east coast. From there, they crossed the ferry to the famous Island of Fraser and for the first dating sheltered him on a helicopter.

The island is famous for being the biggest sandy island in the world. We will spend three days on it and see how Australians meet the New Year. Tourists arriving on the island are arranged there with overnight. Some of them, as a rule, rented on the mainland of jeeps, prefer to move on these machines and live in camping. For those who like comfort, there are several different hotels on the island. We stopped in one of the biggest and comfortable - Kingfisher Bay Resort. It had two pools and it was wonderful, since swimming in the ocean is unpleasant due to a bad orstand coast.

The hotel administration did everything so that tourists do not miss and offhold tourists a few excursions. The most nice - to see the "night" and "morning" animals. The cost of their 5 AUD, the duration of the hour and a half. Bought on the "night". The guide was like us after dinner in the wilderness of the hotel, even without going beyond its limits (the hotel is applied by a metal fence from wild dogs Dingo). Showed some bugs and spiders and everyone went to sleep.

I did not go to the morning excursion (we did not return money), since it was necessary to get up at 4 in the morning. And what to watch? Would you surprise us with some spiders? The singing of birds and so it was heard in a thick foliage from the room window. And in general - there are no special animals on the island. So, one little thing is different mice.

True, there is still on the island of the famous Dingo wild dogs, but we never managed to see them. True, I remember during my youth there was the same film Yulia Karasik about clean, but bitter first teenage love.

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Dingo looks like domestic dogs. Actually - they are secondary wild dogs. But they are not manual at all, and therefore, when you meet with them you need to be careful. We were recommended to comply with the basic rules of behavior - alone outside the hotel did not walk and do not feed anyone (for this a fine of 1500 AUD!), Do not run away and not turn back to them, but wait until you leave. In general, they advised outside the hotel alone not to go out in the afternoon or night.

After a helicopter flight, another most informational excursion was offered a trip on the all-wheel drive 4WD bus at the most interesting places of the island (70 AUD / person).

Outdoor excursion on the island Fraser

Early in the morning we are going from all-wheel drive buses and we are distributed through the machines. Two people drive each car - the driver and guide that change in turns. The guide continuously speaks, the fillets and facts from the history of the development of the island. It turns out that the European colonization of Australia, several thousand Aborigines of the Butchulla tribe lived on the island and he was named K`gari in their tongue. That translated to our meant "paradise place".

And its modern name is due to the name of Captain Fraser, whose ship "Stirling Castle" failed here in 1836. Captain, along with the crew, the aborigines were killed and eaten, and his wife Eliz was captured. After his liberation by the bright convicts, from which she also suffered, Eliza from everything experienced ended her life in a psychiatric hospital ...

This case gave rise to hostility and aggressiveness in the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal. Such a sad story was from this island.

On the issue of the formation of numerous lakes available on the sandy island, the guide noted that all lakes are replenished due to rainfall, which drops to 1,500 millimeters per year. Water, emerging from the lake or leaking through the sand, forms streams (here they call Creek), which, stained, disappear in the ocean.

The bus is presented on a broken sandy road, made many years ago by forest marks. Now this road went into the sand more than a meter. Once on the island, cut the forest and delivered wood to the continent. On both sides of the road of the dense cover of the forest. And if there are two cars on such a road, then drivers are watching who is more convenient to slip on specially made stakes or back even meters 100. Everyone is trapped politely and thank you who have lost their way. "Crudy" does not go to the wheelbarrow here.

After half an hour, such a ride, driving about 10 km, stop at the McKenzie lake. This is the most famous Islands Lake. A large turquoise stain on the background of green jungle. Crystal clear water! I saw the same transparent water only on the famous Szez lakes in Ukraine.

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And although it is big, the people hang out only on one beach. All lie in the coastal zone of water on the white sand and bald. Almost no one swims. It feels like a bath. The lake is deep - it can be seen on the dark blue water of meters of 20 from the coast, but there was no one there was visible.

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All women in bikini, and men are magnificently in long, knees and lower, pants pants. In melting, familiar in our countries, no one bathes. We had to pull the same pants, and they say, they can incorrectly perceive us by orientation. Honestly, it is an uncomfortable form of clothing for swimming (I completely forgot - they do not swim!). I'm not talking about the exit in such a form of water in cold or windy weather. Different inflammations are provided by 100%. Fortunately, it is hot here, and the water was +30.

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After a clock relax on a lake and tea-coffee with traditional Australians buns and cookies cooked by our accompanying, we go further deep into the island. A few kilometers went to the Central Station - the former database of lumberjacks. Now here is a scientific station for the study of flora and fauna of the island.

Short excursion with a story about these places. Usually the forest is not growing very well in the sand. But here, thanks to the abundance of moisture, a lot of greens. Fraser island is one of the few places on the ground, where lush forests rumbled among the sand.

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Indeed, once the forest was so thick that the loggers were commissioned here for 100 years. Some trees, such as Sinkarpia, were bought even for the construction of a Suez Channel.

We pass through a dense forest with its prehistoric ferns and huge silk trees along the clean river Wuangulba Creek.

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Here we were convinced how tourists love in Australia. And not only healthy, and with the so-called. "Limited features." In Australia, there are no disabled people - just there are people, whose physical possibilities are limited to something - someone does not see someone, someone does not hear or does not go. Think! All just glad to see such a person and help him!

Here, in the forest, there were pointers and descriptions of trees everywhere!, Performed on the braille alphabet for the blind! This is the concern for people from Australians!

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After a few kilometers a stop again. We crossed the island and arrived at his Pacific side - in Eurong Beach Resort. There is a hotel, shop, workshop for repairing machines and a small runway for communication with the mainland small aircraft. By the way, they can be sitting on the surf bar.

After Lunch, we again sit down in our cars and go to the lane of the ocean surf. There is a barrier on the road, and the lattice is laid on the ground with a wire stretched over it under el. Current is from wild Dingo dogs. The entire territory of this hotel, as well as ours, is acquired by a high mesh fence.

The ocean shore is impressive! Stunning spectacle! Strong wind raises the vortices of sand, and they are mixed with foam, drunk from the incoming waves. Water dust of the ocean surf hangs in the air. And then - thousands of kilometers of the Pacific Ocean! Along the rank of the surf is visible from the outgoing machines. This polygon for fans of sharp sensations! On both sides - to the left and right is the sand strip width of 70-80 meters and is hidden far beyond the horizon.

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However, lovers of high speeds to rejoice early - on the coast regularly, especially during the low tide, there are cops with radar pistols and catch everyone for the exceeding limit of 80 km / h. Yes, even measured with a ppm on alcohol. Fines as on the mainland - for the exceeding limit even 1 km - fine 133 dollars + 1 penalty! For exceeding 20 km - fine 333 dollars + 4 penalty points, for exceeding 40 km - 933 dollars + 8 penalty points. Each fine is entered into the computer and the policeman is perfectly seen how many times this driver violated the rules.

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Exceeding 40 km / h is considered to be "proceedible" and for it is given the rights (including foreign) directly in the middle of Bush. Moreover, it is unpleasant that if there is no satellite or he does not have rights - the car is arrested and delivered to the rolled office on the truck, which you are paid. Maybe therefore, driving hundreds of kilometers along the roads of Australia, we have not seen any, even the smallest, accident!

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We were lucky - there was great weather. Our route was towards the northern tip of the island. On the right, the ocean mercoly rolled long turquoise waves, but almost all the way, and we drove about 50 km, there was not a soul on his shore.

Only occasionally, in small streams arising from the forest, there were parking with tents and jeeps in the shade of trees. Single coughs wishing to plunge into the ocean, went into it not deeper than knee. Everywhere when driving on the shore, left-sided movement was observed.

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To meet us, right through the bar of the surf, leaving the incoming waves and, as if playing with them, the jeeps rushed. On the way back and our driver did the same. An hour later, driving about 50-60 km, we stopped at about the middle of the island of Coloured Sands - colored sands and turned back.

On the way in two places, the beach line crossed the stone ridges. These were rock formations-weathered Pinnacles such as we saw in Western Australia. Of course, they were not so interesting and similar to Pinakkle desert phallus. But - in its own way. We traveled them from above, and on the way back - when the ocean retreated - already calmly drove along the strip of the sandy surf.

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While they stood up above us, barely did not bore the roof of the bus, flew by a small airplane and deftly landed on a strip of a sandy surf.

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There was also a couple of the same aircraft and their handsome pilots in snow-white shorts and shirts with letiwood shoulders offered to everyone to fly over the island. Well, we flew yesterday and saw everything.

On the way back, they stopped for inspecting the remains of the Maheno ship in 1936. The elas of the ship is rusting to the limit. Sand sticks out of the sand, similar to the ribs thrown to the coast of China. Everyone want to be photographed on this background.

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Flora and fauna

The west coast of the island is taken by mangrove forests and swamps, and the eastern, facing the ocean - a white sandy beach with a length of about 100 km. In the northern part, the Fraser survived untouched wet equatorial forests. Interesting and animal world of the island. In small well-warmed lakes, freshwater turtles are found, wild dog dingo is found on land. And this is not all the flora and the fauna island Fraser.

Under the leadership of Forensch, tourists may watch predators and electric skates while walking on the canoe, and on the island itself - more than 354 species of birds. Such rare species of birds, like an earthen parrot, a big ricegiac owl, as well as 18 species of predatory birds live here. Having walked under the sail, you can see a digray, turtles, dolphins and sharks. While walking along the beaches and the cassava Indian-Head, from August to October it is possible to witness the migration of humpback whales. And going to the night journey, you will meet a bat, bat, sugar possession and frog. On the island also be sure to get acquainted with the life of Kangaroo, Wallaby, Opossums and Echidn.

Island name

This charming island has received its name thanks to the marriage couple James and Eliza Fraser. In 1836, the ship "Sterling Castle", the captain of which was James Fraser, failed off the coast of the island, and the surviving sailors landed. The relationship between the Aboriginal and Europeans was hostile and even aggressive. And today, travelers are listening to the worrying story about the strong woman of Eliz, who survived the death of her husband and a newborn baby and captured by the Aboriginal.

Tourists

On the island, the Fraser story literally twists in the air. On wild colors, you can trace 700 thousand years of evolution, and on huge sandy dunes - centuries-old climatic changes. Travelers will be interested in look at the hills formed by household waste of primitive people, fishing gear, notches on trees and sites, which are at least 5 thousand years.

Having visited the colored arched rocks, you will see a place where the men - the ancestors of the Aborigines played the Didgered Migrant Humpback Whale, as well as the Lunar Piglet - a sacred place for women, where they gave birth to children. These researchers in the happy valley are waiting for the wreckage of the "Mahino" wreckage, built in 1905 and served as a luxurious transstasman passenger ship, subsequently, during the First World War, - the floating hospital, and then was thrown ashore during the cyclone. Visit the abandoned marina McKenzi, which initially served to communicate loggers with the mainland, and during World War II used by the famous storming squad "Zed" (Z Force). So, step by step, the saturated story of the island will be revealed.

After all amazing discoveries, you can stay in an ecologically clean pension and pamper yourself with a health massage, exotic cocktails and exquisite dishes, or enjoy solitude in a house overlooking the coast. On the island there are many hotels and individual cottages with luxurious views of the ocean and surroundings. And for a complete reunion with nature, you can put a tent in one of the following seats: in a tourist camp at the central parking lot, in Lake Bumanin, Mackenzie, Dundubara, Vaddi Point, Vatumba, Dilly village, on the cathedral beach or on the eastern beach.

Having been on the island of Fraser at least a day, no one doubts why they are called "paradise". Hundreds of freshwater lakes with turquoise and transparent waters, ancient rainforests, snow-white quartz beaches - all this creates a unique magic landscape, looking at which you can forget about everything.

Rare raindrop drops are prayed on the roof of our rusty Roven Land, where I now night with a lantern shakeped the entire collapsed front panel and found a fully rotted cigarette lighter socket.
Well, of course, connecting the plug of the voltage converter from 12V to 220V gave a negative result: I can not recharge the camera's battery.

The lights of a public toilet will be shone in the affordable proximity (there is no electric sockets there), but I imagine a picture that opens in a respectable Australian tourist, coming there at 3 am to calm down (instead of doing it as a normal person - on the nearest tree - still rain ) - He will be confused to seeing the lonely Vine, sitting on the toilet with a laptop on his knees and enveloped by black snakes of wires of all electrical devices that need to be charged ...

Rent a jeep for a trip to Fraser

The firm in which we received our Land Rover is located in a pile of a few of the same sharks of imperialism, taking not small money: renting jeeps for a trip to the island of Fraser in search of adventures is a very profitable enterprise for them. And for us - consumers of tourists - expensive ...

Jeeps are equipped with equipment both for overnight in the equipped campsites and field, wild conditions.
During the day before the designated period, I came up with Borrocho to this office to see our car, which was ordered in advance via the Internet ...

Parked at the entrance, we went to the back courtyard of the office and saw a defenter hanging on the lift.
-Vidimically, our device, - said Borocho
Several people in overalls sparkled with welding from under the bottom of the car ...
-Good, if I am mistaken ...

But Valera was not mistaken.
In the morning of the day scheduled for a start on the island of Fraser of the day, we arrived for half an hour before the start of the briefing, where we promised to give very important and interesting information.
There was a lot of information.

I had to watch three videos:
- How not to spoil nature and caked in the dug in advance
- How to behave when meeting with wild dogs Dingo,
- How to behave at a meeting with whales and sharks
- How to behave in life ...

All this time, an employee of the office wrote something, somewhere called and just anxiously cleaned in his head.

Our time was limited, because before the ferry waste to the island, we needed
- to pass the passenger car that we took in Rentcar of the airport
- Buy ice for a refrigeration box
- somehow have time to have an eleven-hour ferry on the island of Fraser.

Finally, finished with the films, we came out on the fresh air of the excellent and sunny Australian morning and found a standing car before becoming ours:
- means of movement
- home native on the island

Two metal drawers were found in the trunk of this ruins. And everything ...
Looking into one we found a set with the nearest garbage: mint tin mug, a few different-caliber plates, rusty forks, packed in yellowed plastic Battery Made in China incomprehensible purpose with traces of leakage electrolyte, a canneding opener, frying pan with a broken handle and trails from the face ( Or heads) and a pair of a saucepan with the remnants of the firing fat.

In another box, there was a gas stove, which could be used in the Auschwitz concentration camp for the disposal of human corpses.
- Nichores yourself, - just were able to say ...
I forgot about a rusty sapper blade and an ax, the Raskolnikov, who was lying on the floor of the jeep with another time.
- And where is the promised table, folding chairs, sleeping bags and a tent for 3 people?
"I almost forgot," the employee said the office and threw two double tents in the body and two neoprene rugs ...
- Listen dear! We ordered 3 chairs, a table, a refrigerator ... a lot of things were listed ... and a gas cylinder for your miracle plate will not hurt ..

On the island, Fraser cannot be breeding outdoor fire and all cooking is carried out on gas tiles or BBQ: be it a kebab or a smoked tail of a kangaroo.

Australian muttered something, gave out a balloon and a small plastic box, where several bottles of wine and a package with grapes could fit ...
- For chairs, the table and sleeping bags will have to pay extra ...
- You will not get anything from me! Need to move - time in the edge ...

Borrocho sat down behind the wheel of the car, and I will shoot on the seat of the defineer immediately scratching the foot of some kind of rusty iron-sticking silence.

Drinking and released a black smoke club from the exhaust pipe into the atmosphere and trying not to crash in front of the sedan, I crawl out of the parking lot.
As a result, we still successfully manage to do everything: to pass the car, buy ice and catch on Barge ...

Cross to Island Fraser

Travel and adventure began.
The sun shines.
Life is getting better.
And it does not matter that she does not hold the handbrake and the car almost falls over the side of the ferry rushing into his fence, after he starts movement.
This is all garbage ...
Time to the island, about 40 minutes.

From Borocho on the top deck discussing the route, laying out the map on the bench. The map is pressed by a bottle of wine to which we are from time to time apply, catching the disapproving views of those present. Upon arrival on the island of Fraser I release almost all the air in the tires of our rusty monster (up to 1 atmosphere), so that there is no way in the sand: there are no roads with a firm coating on the island of Fraser.

All vehicles on the island are possible only on jeeps in directions (non-roads) made by forest marks in those days when they were engaged in logging on the island. As the main road on the island of Fraser uses a beach of 75 miles long. But it is possible to go on it only to the sampling, therefore the most important paper that you are given when renting a jeep - Schedule Single / Tide for the next 5 days.

The first day on the island we decided to give to forest lakes and movements inside the island, without departure to the beach, as the tide schedule was such that it did not make sense: the adhesive ocean cuts off open and solid to move the beach section of the beach and there is a chance to float on the jeep On Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.

What to look at the island Fraser

I described Fraser Lakes in more detail in my report on my first trip to Australia four years ago.

Lake Mackenzie Everything is as popular and crowded.
Not only the snow-white sand of the beach and blue water in this reason.

This is the most affordable lake, so there are so many one-day tourists.
The following was lake Wabby., I am a favorite lake with greenish water with the smell of the eucalyptus tincture of pressed with a huge sandy dune to the opposite wooded shore.

Posing Borrocho on one of the dunes, I rolled off with her and dropping a rarely risen to the hard sandstone ear. Tapping with the pads of the fingers, the crossed hands, I felt a clean ring, as if a huge crystal ball was hidden under the thick sand ...
Amazing this place. I highly recommend and put it in my top beaches

When tens of kilometers of internal directions were passed.
When it was jumping in hundreds of roots and pits ...
.... Made to try out ...

Housing on the island Fraser

It was necessary to determine overnight.
For some reason, I did not want to put the tents and we went to EURONG.where there were several civilized hotels like hotel-resort.

Puting and having received a number for $ 126 (Australian), we tied our iron hillock in the parking lot and moved the most expensive from Borrocho to our number that we had: a red box.

In the red box, under the layer of purchased ice was meat. Mutton…
The freshest Australian lamb.
I wanted to eat very much.

Not far from our house there was a barbecue area: a brick-made cube, the top is a metal cavity with a hole in the midst of melted fat, heated from below the flame of the gas burner launched into a triple action by pressing the button.

First dinner on the island Fraser

For dinner it was:
- Tomato Salad with onions, filled with Italian sauce based on balsamic, olive oil and fragile herbs
- Pickled in sweet-sweet sauce Kalmar rings
- Salad leaves Iceberg
- Marinated with onions and garlic slices of carrying pulp on the bone (pistol)

Dinner was held under the stars burning in the sky (the night sky of Australia, this black bedspread on the head, through which once was shot by the charge of small fractions) and conversations about parallel worlds and afterlife. With this and went to bed.

I dreamed of nightmares and, in my opinion, I furified in a dream.
The morning was no less joyful: the flares reflected with the water stroit of the pool, the taste of the sweet Australian yogurt was shouted on the balcony ceiling, the taste of the sweet Australian yogurt could spoil the fragrance of tea with lime.

The scrambled eggs made on the ambulsion with Bacon and the parsed onion cheered us for a whole day of adventure and they began as soon as we left for the beach.

For me, the trip on the Long Beach Islands Fraser was not new, but nevertheless I once again had a moving stone tongues.

At this moment it seems that the car is now or will turn over or at best, a part of the rocky breed of propers the bottom will be in the cabin of the car exactly between the legs ...

Photos, photos, ocean dust from the surf.
The tump just began, so part of the path passes through the spraying salted splashes, loose sand.

Rusty skeleton Mokhlen - Dry cargo ship, elevated by storm as shore of the island somewhere at the end of the thirties - has become even more ragling.

Since then, I was on Fraser for the first time (5 years ago) Soler Ocean Water, the wind, the sun - did their job.
Training bombings of the Australian Air Force completed the picture:

In the northern tip of the beach it cuts the big rock "The head of the Indian".
In this place it is quite difficult to drive - a detour for loose sand and many cars sit on the bottom.

Therefore, this place was chosen by those for whom this is a kind of finish line and just a playground for landscape shooting.
From here, beautiful views of the oceanic surf and the sandy path of cars are opened.

But those who have passed the test with honor and won the zybuchi sand - those get as a reward - Baths with champagne.
In the place where the rocks come close to the ocean, natural baths were formed - large recesses in the rocky rock with a smooth bottom. Size - you can bathe a truck.
And when the ocean wave hits the bath in the wall, it turns into a foam that overflows through the edge - in the bath.

Feeling. When you bathe in it - as if you swim in champagne: water with bubbles ...
I fell there in slag and swelling to the border where the oceanic surf beat and rolled the strongest waves, creating a foamy, hype effect, took on foam streams and shouted:
- More champagne! More champagne!

Robinsons on the island Fraser

After three hours, the question arose: where will we spend the night?
We decided to put tents on the shore of the ocean and porobininzon.
Along the entire 75 mile beach there are places where you can stay on the wild stay.
It is impossible to stop in places that fills the tide, where there are natural attractions: Red Canyon, Creek Eli.
We drove back, from the head of the Indian and peered into the coastal strip.

I wanted to find a place overlooking the ocean and with fresh water to wash off after bathing in baths with champagne.
After 4-5 attempts, such a place was found: When there is a choice, there is always a place for doubts and make a fear of an ugly bush or dry grass ...

In the pine groves on the ocean, surrounded by strange palm trees with pineapple growing on them - we got to parking. I put the car so that she protects us from the side winds to one side and did not blocked the view of the faceless ocean - the tide began. At this time, frowning cluttered for a couple of hours. What to do? Do not sit in the car ...

For non-professional camping, everything was done correctly: one end to the targets of the car was tied awning, with the other side we attached it to the trees.
It turned out as if the visor stretching from the roof of the car to the side. This created temporary protection with an area of \u200b\u200b3 square meters from the water whipped from heaven.
In the face of the head, the streams of water flowed, the shorts were watching the wet as if only from the pool.

Not at all thought about comfort at that moment. Rather I thought about him as a goal as a perspective. Therefore, not paying attention to the shower, on the periodic waterfalls of water from our temporary canopy, and Valera and I continued to harmonively fix various options for our protection against water and wind:

- We used as a frontal protection of the awning one tent, tieding it to a canopy visor from above, and reducing the stakes.
- put one tent with difficulty sobraying with her design and spending some time on disputes where to fix.

They carried it out in order not to prevent the main process: the process of cooking dinner.
From the trunk got everything: boxing with wine, boxing with meal. And finally, the queen fields is a gas stove.
A gas cylinder began to join her and found that we did not give an adapter ... Hello Ass New Year!

Everything, because of what was stamped, this night - this romance was a wild parking lot and spending the night - everything was all the pump. The fire on the island can not be divided, and even if it could have been: where to take dry firewood during a tropical shower? There is something in except for raw lamb. What to do?

The answer was obvious - to dump in the nearby civilized camping and it was nearby, a few kilometers on the beach. The visual memory reproduces its name - Dundubara.

Tide on the island Fraser

Everything washing: a pity of the time spent on the installation of protection against rain, storage of things ... Yes, and configured to admire the ocean at night and fight with wild dogs Dingo ...

But the main thing was that the adhesive ocean with each minute burned the solid space of beach sand serving here an expensive life.
A few more minutes and we can stay sliced \u200b\u200bfrom the civilized world. Without electricity, cellular and gas ...

The fees occupied 5-10 minutes. Silently worked, coordinated and without unnecessary conversations - the specificity of the situation affected.

By turning everything into the luggage compartment, we left on the downward transfer to the beach, where the ocean waves have already hung up, swaying to the sand dunes for which we stood. There was no roadway. We were clamped on one side by the roaring ocean ocean, and with the other with a cloudy shore ... The road back caused me a multiple hassle on my head and not only.

When the waves beat in the side of the car, and the reverse stream of the water washed the wheels of our conqueror of the vera - he lasted and it seemed that he would now fall on the side with us.

Just in case, we folded money and passports in a waterproof bag. The rest ... Well, if it happens, the kids on the Islands of Micronesia will take themselves to souvenirs ....

And then the engine of our Land Romeh stalls ... p..tz, - we said in chorus. But we were probably lucky. Would still be a few seconds and we would wash out into the open ocean ....

The car started and drowned the gas pedal to the floor I went toward the outgoing water. By typing the speed began to turn the wheels to the shore.
The water fled down and made it possible to gain an extra rate, which allowed to call in the stream of the stream, by chance and on the happiness of the way it turned out on our way ...

Having drove on the solid bottom of the stream of several tens of meters I stopped.
The waves finished and here, but at least we were not stood sideways and were quite far from the line of the watershed.
Behind the hill was visiting the fluttering flag - it was the camping where we were driving.

Carefully turned around - it's good that the bottom of the stream was slightly stony. And he began to wait for the parish of a big wave. As soon as she hit the front bumper, I turned on the second speed and on
reduced transmission with all locks rushed towards the sea. Already having left for the beach, turned left and after 50 meters saw the desired goal: the path among two dunes leading
Up to Campground ...

Daaaa ... .. You could translate the spirit ...
We drove here illegally, but we were to see it. We experienced the element ... Although rather, she tested us ...

Campgrounds on the island Fraser

Camping gates were covered, but not closed on the castle.
We stopped before the booth, on which the sign hung, explaining that we are in the campsite illegally, since we are not booked.

And so that everything becomes by law - you need to call and book. The prehistoric telephone apparatus was hung, which erupted 50 centle coins.

We had one such (mostly money was 20 and 50 dollar bills.
So, it was worth it to wait for the answer at that end of the wire and the person asked to dictate him a credit card number to withdraw $ 15 for our legal stay here - a taxonophone ate the coin and turned off.

We did not grieve and leave here. Put the car to parking. Put a wet tent and went fry meat on a public barbecue.

Maranina was as always magical. After testing the elements, wine and tasty dinner, we fell to sleep in wet sleeping bags as killed.

The next morning, when we were already going to leave - the ocean began to retreat and we could go to the beach - Reinger was held by us (I just sat and inspected the 11th series of LOST, which I downloaded on the big earth) and hanged the hand.

I also salted him a bottle of shiraza. He showed a thumb - type everything is good and left, without even looking at our PermT in the campsite of the Fraser, which was tied to the tent ...

The whole day the day we chase in the pits, chops and the roots of trees in the depths of the island, getting back to the lakes.
Well, in the afternoon I stopped in the town of Eurong Village where they stopped in advance, without waiting for the smummer.
By overlook, there were already installed tents on the Master of Army, in which landfill beds with normal bed lodges were available, table chairs.
There was also a toilet and a hot shower, which was very by the way. All pleasure cost 25 dollars per person.

In the morning of the next day, bacon and cheese were breakfast, all this was on a public cuisine (kitchen, refrigerators, cutlery and other public utensils and included in the price).

All other products (sausages, chicken, etc.) had an unapproving look in a mixture with melting ice in a large Coulbox and were thrown back in the evening.
We took out all our junk from the trunk. Wash out of the hose and stuffed again to the previous place.

Garbage on the island Fraser

The bag with garbage was taken into a specially designated place. About this place is worth telling more:

The garbage on the island of Fraser, is a big glade fenced by a fence from wild dogs Dingo.

In order for the dogs not to penetrate the territory of the garbage and God forbid something did not eat, the only gates are equipped with a system of conductive plates on the ground for which a small, but tangible for dogs current (the car is not done, and Dingo has a current, so They do not climb there).

There are many garbage containers and everything, literally all come and neatly lay out: metal in one group, glass to another, organic in the third group of containers.
It remains only to clutch people who do not enhance the place where they are resting. I respect the local tourists for this, remembering his cottage in Zhostovo, where savages arrive on the weekend for cars and us, local residents, then you have to collect trash in the forest.

Dingo dogs

After that, since it began to peck around the sun, we went to sunbathe to the lake McCenzi.
And here I watched a curious picture: Dingo's dogs have free access to the beach - it is not fenced.
And here is one of the young dogs busily ran on the beach past us. All of course began to grab the cameras, Momashi building children next to them ...
But Dingo is not paying attention to the movement of tourists, she began to sniff the bags standing on the sand.

In one pile, she bunks something and climbed the muzzle to Torubu. A woman who was sitting on Plalt jumped on his feet and began to wave a towel on a dog, but Dingo did not pay attention to her pulled out breakfast from the ride and swallowed him. Then grabbing a nearby leather lady's handbag, rushed with her in the teeth on the rock. The woman ran over her on the beach and disappeared from the view. After 10 minutes, she came upset and without a handbag. What I concluded that everything was gone (as I understood money and documents) with the ends.

Fraser is a sandy island at the East Coast of Australia, separated from the mainland by extensive swampy territories. The aborigines who inhabited this island before the arrival of Europeans called him KGARI, which means "paradise". And they can be understood - the place is really paradise: snow-white sands, mangrove thickets, lakes and exotic flora and fauna.

The modern name is the island received by the last name Captain Fraser, who failed to crash from these shores and, together with his wife, was forced to settle there.

Fraser is the world's largest sandy island. It is a UNESCO World Heritage List as a unique natural object.

How to get

The international airport closest to Fraser island is located in Brisbane. There are no direct flights from Russia, flight to both ends with one transplant costs from 1017 USD per person. Next, from Brisbane - in the small town of Harvey Bay on the coast. There are many ways: plane, several trains, buses or rented cars.

The fastest way is the plane. The road will take just over 2 hours, ticket price - from 110 USD per person in one direction. Approximately the same you spend a ticket for a train, which goes 4.5 hours. A slower train (6.5 hours in one direction) will be twice as cheaper. The most fiscal option is a bus, one end ticket costs from 30 USD per person.

In Harvi Bay, there are pier, from which barges are sent several times a day (approximately from 6:00 to 18:45). The ticket costs about 60 USD per person, you can buy them on the pier.

Only one point on the barge is not enough to get to the island of Fraser. A special resolution is also necessary - "PermT". It is drawn up by default, if you rent a jeep at the Harvey Bay resort, or if there is armor in any of the hotels on the island.

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Hotels

There are several hotels and guest houses on the island for tourists. The average cost of the night in Gusotinice is about 100 USD per day per room for two. Hotels are usually located in a picturesque location, there is a swimming pool, garden, gazebos and other amenities. Guest houses are slightly cheaper: from 70 USD per day for the room for two, the location is also beautiful, but the pool and territory with the garden may not be.

Beaches of Islands Fraser.

The coast of the Fraser is more than 100 km of sandy beaches. Most of them are wild, but even there are practically no tourist infrastructure on popular beaches. It is not recommended to swim in completely deserted places, since the deserted they are not by chance: there may be sand dunes, dangerous trends, jellyfish, Dingo dogs and another not very pleasant neighborhood. The most popular beaches among tourists are Orchidoy, the head of the Indian (it is so called for the bizarrely rugged coastline), the cathedral, the beach with quartz sand and the beaches of a happy valley.

It is much safer to relax on the shores of freshwater lakes. They are on the island more than 40, the most famous of them is the bright blue lake McKenzie. Nobody lives in it - water in Lake distilled. There are always a lot of people here (a lot on local standards - on any European beach resort the beaches are not a crowded example), and if you want to enjoy the absolute silence, it is worth come to 16:00, when buses with tourists are already sent back.

Entertainment and excursions

Fraser is moving primarily for rest on snow-white beaches and observation of wildlife. In the West - Mangrove thickets and swamps, in the east - sand, and in the north - unreserved equatorial forests (there is also a Great Sandy National Park National Park).

Not only vegetation is different, but also an animal world. Sea turtles live in local freshwater lakes, and the wild dog dingo dog lives in large quantities. Wild it is not in the full sense of the word: once it was already domesticated, but after that she was wild again. Dingo can be found almost anywhere on the island, they live peacefully with their flocks and are never the first to attack people. But it is better not to disturb them: they will certainly defend their territory. In local forests there are about 350 species of birds, many of which are under protection, for example, an earthen parrot and a challenium owl.

Right and nightly excursions can be ordered directly at the hotel to get acquainted with the nature of the island. Another option is to go on a sea walk and see close to Shark, Dolphins, humpback whales and other marine inhabitants. At night, you can see volatile mice, foxes and many multi-colored frogs.

From August to October on the island of Fraser you can see the migration of humpback whales.

There are no cultural and historical attractions on the island, but tourists usually impressive huge pyramids of household waste, which are mainly from fishing gear and boat fragments. In a happy valley, you can still see the fragments of the ship "Mahino", sunken off the island from the coast during the First World War, and visit the abandoned Pier McKenzi, where the storm detachment "Zed" was based during the Second World War. A sacred place has been preserved on the lunar cape where women tribal Aboriginal gave birth to children.

Most of the entertainment offered on the island are active. You can ride on the jeeps along the sandy cathedral rocks or fly over them on the mini-plane, to melt along the River Alh-Creek and go into an open ocean, ride a yacht and go fishing. The worms are likely to have to dig yourself, but it is very easy: after the bet they lie directly on the shore.

Travel on the island Fraser

Fraser Island

Fraser Island (Eng. Fraser Island or Great Sandy Island) itself is one of Australia's attractions. This is a major island, fully consisting of sand, not having analogues in the world. In 1992, he was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The island area is 1840 kilometers of square, it refers to the state of Queensland. Island Fraser stretched along the coast of the sea coast. Scientists argue that the island formed huge sand dunes that have developed more than four hundred years ago.

Local Aborigines had the name of the island initially sounded as Kagry, which means "paradise". He was renamed in the last century, today's name is consonant with the name of Captain Fraser, who crashed on his ship near the island.

Fraser photo

For several years, Captain Fraser and his wife lived in the territory of the island with the rest of the surviving team members. In 1840, European-colonizers came to the island and formed a new settlement. A war began between the Aboriginal and Europeans, during which almost all the local population was exterminated. Today, only 400 people live on the island, eleven of them are the surviving descendants of the Aborigines.

The whole nature of the island Fraser is unusual and attractive. For example, here you can see high sand dunes, towering almost 150 meters. One of the main natural attractions of the island is its sandy lakes, they are more than forty. Basically, these are small lakes from which the streams flowing into the coral sea flow.

There are some large lakes, for example, Lake Boeemingen. By area, this lake takes more than 200 hectares. The island also flows a small river, bearing the name of Eli Creek. Tourists visiting the island always wonder why lakes and rivers do not absorb in the sand? The fact is that at the bottom of these lakes there is a dense "litter" from the peat, which makes them remain on the surface. This is a truly unique phenomenon.

Tourists attract Fraser to Island, first of all, his magnificent sandy beaches. They are surrounded by exotic vegetation, which can also be considered a local attraction.

Next to the beach has small palm trees and eucalyptus, and if you go deep into the island, you can find an intact rainforest with thickets of Lian and Eucalyptus. The eucalyptte recordsman grows in this forest, its height is 70 meters. This eucalyptus gave reason to declare the forest on the island of the security zone. In this reserve, you can observe more than eighth types of tropical plants, as well as animals inhabiting these places.

Wild dogs dingo live on the island, however, the number of them decreases year after year. It happens from the fact that they are crossing up with homemade dogs, and the purity of the species disappears. In this regard, on the island of local residents banned dogs.

As for other representatives of the animal world, here you can meet such exotic animals, like opossums, echidnes, krylovnov, or volatile foxes. The horses were left on the territory of the island, which Europeans were once brought here, however, they are all the wicking.

Of the reptiles on the territory of the island, graze crocodiles are found, many different lizards and snakes. One of the rare animals here is the Summer Beast Wallaby. This is a kind of kangaroo, which is characterized by smaller sizes.

In the coastal waters of the island, tiger sharks, humpback whales, dugoni, dolphins and many rare types of jellyfish and fish are found. Of the rare species of birds, it is worth noting an earthen parrot, honeycomb, winterwinds, gulls, kakada.