| is the
largest sand island in the world, and has been given the ultimate
accolade as a very special environment by being inscribed on the
World Heritage List.
Its 163,000 hectares encompass an
amazing variety of landscape: long surf pounded beaches; vast,
desert like sandblows; freshwater lakes; heathlands brilliant with
spring wildflowers; winding streams; great basalt headlands and
forest clad dunes rising to 240 metres, among the highest in the
world.
Eurong Beach Resort is 32 km from
the southern tip of Fraser Island. In its immediate hinterland is
the most magnificent rainforest on the island, Central Station
Forest Park and Wanggoolba Creek with its crystal clear waters
overhung by palms and ferns, including the ancient Angiopteris
fern, a specie more than 4 million years old.
There too is the famous circle of
the island's unique perched lakes; McKenzie, Jennings, Birrabeen,
Benaroon and Boomanjin, the largest perched lake in the
world. Each of them has its own special atmosphere, dazzling white
sandy beaches and warm, clear waters.
North along the surf beach from
Eurong, With very easy walking, is Lake Wabby, the deepest lake on
Fraser with a huge sandblow dropping sheer into one side of it.
A little farther north are the
scenic highlights of Eli Creek, which pours a million gallons an
hour of freshwater into the ocean. The swimming is incredible.
Then the Maheno, the wreck of a
luxury liner beached in 1935; and The Cathedrals, magnificent
cliffs of coloured sands, hewn by wind into turrets and spires.
Tracks inland all along the beach lead to huge sanblows, with Aboriginal
springs and streams.
The surf beach, the island's
north-south highway, leads then to three rock headlands; Indian
Head, Middle Rock and Waddy Point, around which the sand has
collected over 800,000 years to form this natural wonderland.
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