4x4 Magazine Australia

BEACH BREAK

AUSTRALIA is blessed with some of the best 4x4 driving destinations on the planet. Iconic locations such at the Cape York Peninsula, Kakadu National Park, The Kimberley, the Simpson Desert, the Flinders Ranges and the Victorian High Country make up the bucket lists of many a 4x4 adventurer.

One of the most accessible (depending on where you’re coming from) bucket-list destinations has to be Queensland’s Fraser Island. Lying just off South-East Queensland’s coast, some 3.5-hours north of Brisbane, Fraser Island, or K’gari, is a must-visit place for any four-wheel driver, particularly if you like fishing and beach driving.

Fraser is the largest sand island in the world and as such is a World Heritage-listed site, so we’re lucky we can still drive on its hundreds of kilometres of beach and inland tracks. The main track, if you like, runs up the eastern beach of the island and is inaccurately called 75-Mile Beach. Then there

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