Frazer Island Advise

Pete can't help you, haven't been there for nearly 30 years, but try this site

Fraser Island

Cheers

Richard

heres a PDF map

Camping Map

Richard

If you are searching for advice, try Fraser Island!

I like Waddy point protected from the wind and Back Packers. Generally a few good safe swimming spots in the tidal channels which will be good in summer.You will be able to to most day trip from Waddy.Orchid beach shop is very close for fuel and basic supplies.
Try Waddy point top camping ground nice and leafy and room enough for your tent. a good shower block $1.00 for a hot shower. search places on this site waddy point/camp ground should be some pictures.


Rob

If you want a good beach camp site, go just a bit further up than Waddy to the Maloo area, or the Ocean Lake area. Waddy gets too busy for my liking but you can still use the facilities, even though you're camped on the beach. There's drop toilets only at Ocean Lake itself, but nothing on the beach.

Be warned, Xmas is VERY busy on Fraser so spots might be a bit limited.

Showers at Waddy campground are $2 for 3 minutes..

Hate to say this but the long range forecast for Christmas is Torrential rain. This is from the same guy who forecast last years big wet and he's about 80% right. He mentioned about the rain last Christmas and we went camping and bout did we get soaked and they evacuated Frazer Island !! But boy i hope he's wrong !

having camped on fraser for the period between xmas and newyears i can give you actual real advice as to what it's like.
yes it is busy there at that time, but no different to normal school holidays. we noticed alot of people camped more towards the southern half of the island, almost like the first vacant spot they saw they chose to set up in, they were like a refugee camp. once you started to get past say the maheno wreck, things got alittle better, was still busy but not refugee like. we arrived on the island 2 days after xmas that time and still found a fairly decent site away from all the masses.
we go to fraser every year for a 2 week period and always stay just north of the cathedral beach shops / resort. as we stay put in the one camp site for 2 weeks we find this area the most central to everything, not close to anything (other then the shop) but just central.

special equipment=
your snatch strap, but no good to you unless you have rated recovery points on your fourby.
obvious to say but i'll say it just incase, SAND PEGS , the other normal type won't be much use for pegging stuff down.