2008-09-19

Fraser Island, the island Australian record  

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Australia is a continent that feels on the outskirts of the world. It suffers the inferiority complex of being away from everything and also to be so big and yet so little count at geopolitics. There is a population of 20 million inhabitants over a large territory once and half Europe, which needs to be important. That is why here every 100 km find the announcement of a record: the longest beach from the southern hemisphere, the largest aquarium from the southern hemisphere, the most poisonous spider from the southern hemisphere.

In short, in the southern hemisphere not beat anyone. But Australia also has some primates worldwide. One of these consists of Fraser Island, the island of sand largest in the world, partimonio universal UNESCO since 1992, which is located opposite the coast of Harvey Bay in Queensland. The salient feature of the place is that there are no roads. That they call highway, Highway, is actually a long beach, in order to travel should keep an eye on tides. The island can turn only in 4X4, better if organized on tour with expert guides you tell all of the place and they know how to avoid bogged down among the dunes.


Fraser Island, as indeed most of Australia, is full of animals poisonous or dangerous, against which the guides never fail to get in guard. We must not give anything to eat the dingo, wild dogs that can attack humans, and if it encounters one (on the island, there is all about one hundred) is good not to give him their backs to flee because you inseguirebbe: Keep calm. Take care not to trample on the snakes (there are six types) and not sognarti even to bathe in the beautiful sea on the island is infested by sharks. Just take a walk on the promontory of Indian Head for realizing it, watching the sea from the silhouette of sharks are and the desire to dive passes now.

But why then one should take the trouble to go there since? Why is an unusual and wonderful, with a luxuriant vegetation, full of beautiful lakes, like Mc Kenzie and Lake Wabby, where you can swim in crystal clear waters, and many creek, torrentelli freshwater that addentrano in the vegetation of the Interior. Lake Wabby is being slowly engulfed by sand dunes, and then rushed, in a few years could be no more.

Vale la pena absolutely do a tour by plane on the island is the only way to appreciate the contrasts and beauty often hidden among the dunes. Between August and September, the stretch of sea separating the island from the mainland is full of whales, making this place, yes, the world capital of whale whatching.

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