Fraser Island Transportation Tips by Myndo Top 5 Page for this destination

The place to start an excursion onto Fraser

For a day-trip or also for a several day trip unto Fraser Island you will have to start somewhere. And that somewhere almost certainly is Hervey Bay.

A very nice village by itself with excellent restaurants and beaches. A very friendly info center.
Leave your rented car here for the trip.

Just if you come by a jetty that looks like the one iin the picture: there is a restaurant closeby with the best mussels in coconut - citron gras sauce I ever, ever had. I would go back just for that!

Mode: TO

Type: Other

4 WD Cars

There is no other way around the island but by Feet or 4WD Car.
There are some roads, but they consist -like everything else here - of sand.

So this is the only way. There are tours taking you around, or you can hire a car and drive yourself.

It?s not as hard as it sounds.
There are just a few things to remember that are special here.
- You can drive on the beach and almost everywhere on the island (where there is a route), but don?t drive over the vegetation.
- Don?t drive through salt water (yes, this means the sea, so stay away from the beach if the tide is high) - the sweet water creeks that you have to cross from time to time are ok, though.
- Beware of Eli Creek: its the biggest of these Creeks on the Eastern beach and it is often deeper than expected.
- If you cross someone on the beach, indicate the side on which you are driving (doesn?t always have to be the same one, you can cross on the right or the left).
- There are planes landing on some strech of the beach: so also look up.

Mode: AROUND

Type: Car/Motor Home

Fly in

There are different ways to get on the island.

Most go by ship, but there is a faster and more interesting version: fly in.
In a Chesna they take you from Hervey Bay and they land right on the Beach of the island.
This only works if it is low tide.
And thats also the reason you should be there at the time they said when you want to fly back....

Air Fraser Island is one of the companies.
They also hire Cars (4WD) on the island, so you can combine it.

1999 the prices were as folow:

1 Day Trip 35 AUS (australian Dollars) per person (flight)

Fly-Drive-Fly: 85 AUS pp
(includes 4WD hire on the island and flight)

Fly-Drive-Camp 150 AUS
(2days, one night, incl 4WD hire and camping gear)
(we made this: it was just great!)

Mode: TO

Type: Airplane