Right from the beginning Fraser Island was part of our to-do list on the east coast of Australia. It is the largest sand island in the world. If you want to visit everything on Fraser Island, you probably need several days. We decided on a day trip and were very happy with it. We visited the Lake McKenzie, the famous colorful, band-shaped sandstone formation "The Cathedrals", the SS Maheno shipwreck of 1935 and part of the National Park with scrubland and eucalyptus forests.
Lake McKenzie is a shallow groundwater lake on Fraser Island. It is part of the Great Sandy National Park. This clear water and white beach we had seen so far only on the Whitsundays and Whitehaven Beach. The clear distinction from light to dark water reminded us very much of Whitehaven Beach. The Aboriginal people of the Butchulla tribe, the indigenous people of the island, gathered at the lake to make decisions. They called it water of wisdom.
Fraser Island and especially Lake McKenzie are known for the Dings. Dingos are wild dogs. We did not see a dingo that day. However, we did not think that was very bad, because there are always incidents with dingoes that end up partly deadly for them. Most of the time people do not behave properly.
On the second picture you can see the SS Maheno shipwreck of 1935. It was bigger than we had imagined. We were not allowed to touch it, which we thought was alright. SS Maheno was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935.
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We also visited a part of the Nationalpark with its scrubland and eucalyptus forests.
Here you can see the beautiful sanstone formation "The Cathedrals". The Cathedrals on Fraser Island are coloured sand cliffs that have been sculpted by the wind and rain blowing in off the Pacific Ocean.
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