2 Best Sights in Fraser Island, Queensland

This park covers the top third of K'gari. Beaches around Indian Head are known for their shell middens—shell heaps that were left behind after Buchamba feasting. The head's name is another kind of relic: Captain James Cook saw some Buchamba people standing on the headland as he sailed past, and he therefore named the area after inhabitants he believed to be "Indians." Farther north, past Waddy Point, is one of K'gari's most magnificent variations on sand: wind and time have created enormous dunes. Nearby at Orchid Beach are a series of bubbling craters known as the Champagne Pools.

A boardwalk heads south from Central Station to Wanggoolba Creek, a favorite spot for photographers. The little stream snakes through a green palm forest, trickling over a bed of white sand between clumps of rare angiopteris fern. The 1 km (½-mile) circuit takes 30 minutes to an hour.