Why you should visit K’gari-Fraser Island in 2021
AS MY SMALL PLANE approaches the world’s largest sand island and one of the very few places in Australia you can land an aircraft on the beach, I watch white waves race toward a wide stretch of sand. A 4WD cruises beneath us, along a 120-kilometre-long beach officially designated as a highway. I spot campers wandering out of tents they’ve pitched in the dunes. Behind them, swathes of rainforest are interrupted by more than 100 freshwater lakes. This is K’gari, 166,000 hectares of sand off the Fraser Coast in Queensland. Unseen from my window are the myriad walking, the last of Australia’s pure-bred dingo population, or the tracks from green turtles, returning home every nesting season.
