After a great day's sailing we drop anchor at Garry's Anchorage, Fraser Island. It's a clear winter's night under a full moon.

Fraser Island is the worlds’ largest sand island and became a World Heritage area in 1992.

The waterway between Fraser Island and the mainland of Australia is quite narrow at the southern end but broadens into a huge partly sheltered waterway to the north known as Hervey Bay.

The Great Sandy Straits provide excellent navigational challenges, magnificent flat water for sailing and beautiful sheltered anchorages.

Fraser Island World Heritage Area is an outstanding example of ongoing ecological and biological processes and contains superlative natural phenomena.

Sand deposited over thousands of years during sea level changes has formed and still is creating Fraser Island. The island’s sands provide an excellent record of the ageing processes of sand dunes and are an outstanding example of geological and biological processes working together.

With its freshwater lakes, coloured sand cliffs, rainforests growing in sand, crystal-clear creeks and long white beaches, Fraser Island is a truly beautiful place.

Fraser Island has at least 40 lakes including half of the world’s perched dune lakes. Lake Boomanjin, the largest perched lake in the world, is one of the island’s most picturesque.

Fraser Island's pure native dingoes can often be seen from Garry's Anchorage during the day.