FRASER ISLAND MEMORIES

Dear Wild,

Fraser island story (March-April 2018) triggered wonderful memories of a once-in-a-lifetime event in January 1951 when about 800 Senior Scouts from most mainland states spent two weeks exploring what was then a wilderness paradise and nature-lover’s el Dorado. A handful of forestry workers, timber-getters and the odd lighthouse keeper were the island’s sole custodians – and there was not a tourist or 4WD to be seen from Sandy Cape in the north to Hook Point in the south. Today, the tracks carved by pleasure vehicles on the beautiful 200m wide swathe of beach