Life on Fraser Island: Fraser Island’s Cool Dingo Named ‘Best Tour in Queensland’

Independent backpackers and travellers have voted Fraser Island’s World Heritage Cool Dingo Tour as the ‘Best Tour Activity in Queensland’ for the second year running.

The 2008 TNT Golden Backpack awards are the only awards program for the independent travel sector and, according to TNT Magazine, were designed to reward those operators who work hardest to make backpacking around Australia and New Zealand that extra bit special.

Cool Dingo Tours scooped top honours in its State category, after a national campaign saw backpackers and independent travellers cast more than 11,000 votes, in more than 30 categories, for their favourite hostel, tour and backpacker night in every State and Territory in Australia and across the Tasman.

Fraser Island

Fraser Island stretches over 123 kilometres in length and 22 kilometres at its widest point. With an area of 184 000 hectares it is the largest sand island in the world.

Fraser Island's World Heritage listing ranks it with Australia's Uluru, Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef. Fraser Island is a precious part of Australia's natural and cultural heritage, it is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy.

Fraser island is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly coloured sand cliffs, and over 100 freshwater lakes, some tea-coloured and others clear and blue all ringed by white sandy beaches. Ancient rainforests grow in sand along the banks of fast-flowing, crystal-clear creeks.