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Queensland Day Trips

• QLD-D1 Geology of Brisbane
• QLD-D2 The Glasshouse Mountains
• QLD-D3B Stradbroke Island and Moreton Bay
• QLD-D4B The Tweed Shield
• QLD-D5 The Scenic Rim of Queensland
• QLD-D6 Engineering Geology in SE QLD
• QLD-D7A Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
• QLD-D7B Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
• QLD-D8A Sunshine Coast Construction Materials
• QLD-D8B Sunshine Coast Construction Materials

Queensland Field Trips

• Q-1A Geology of Heron Island
• Q-1B Geology of Heron Island
• Q-2 Mineralisation of the Mount Isa Region
• Q-3 Mount Isa Crustal Evolution
• Q-4 The Queensland Energy Province
• Q-5 Whitsunday Volcanics & Tectonism
• Q-6 Cretaceous Northern Great Artesian Basin
• Q-7 (No Longer Available)
• Q-8A Fraser Island Natural and Geological Beauty
• Q-8B Fraser Island Natural and Geological Beauty
• Q-9A (No Longer Available)
• Q-9B (No Longer Available)
• Q-10 Cracow-Gympie Gold
• Q-11 Nth Qld: 1700 million years of Earth History

New South Wales Field Trips

• NSW-1 (No Longer Available)
• NSW-5 Bega - Murrumbidgee Batholiths
• NSW-6 (No Longer Available)
• NSW-7 Oroclinal Bending in the Sthn New England

Victoria Field Trips

• V-2 (No Longer Available)
• V-3 Otway Basin Carbon Capture and Storage

Tasmania Field Trips

• T-1 (No Longer Available)
• T-2 Ore Deposits of Tasmania

South Australia Field Trips

• S-2 (No Longer Available)
• S-4 Ediacaran-Cambrian of South Australia

Northern Territory Field Trips

• NT-1 Geology of Uluru - Alice Springs Region
• NT-2 (No Longer Available)

Western Australia Field Trips

• WA-1 Yilgarn Craton
• WA-2 A billion years of Earth history
• WA-3 (No Longer Available)
• WA-4 Shark Bay: Stromatolites and World Heritage

New Zealand Field Trips

• NZ-1 North Island: Active Volcanism
• NZ-2 North Island - Auckland Volcanic Field
• NZ-3 Pliocene to Miocene Wanganui & Taranaki
• NZ-4 South Island: Plate Boundary Structure

New Caledonia Field Trip

• NCAL-1 New Caledonia Subduction/Obduction

Malaysia Field Trip

• MY-1 Langkawi Geopark

Papua New Guinea Field Trips

• PNG-1 (No Longer Available)
• PNG-2 Port Moresby-Popondetta-Kokoda-Madang

Q-8B Fraser Island – Natural and geological beauty
on the world's largest sand Island

 

Post Trip	Saturday 11 August to Wednesday 15 August 2012 (5 days and 4 nights)
Start/Finish	Starts in Brisbane - Finishes in Brisbane (Numbers limited to 30)
Cost	Land:$2130 per person share twin/double Single Supplement:$615
Description	Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island and is a fantastic modern analogue for the formation of sand dominated sedimentary deposits - both onshore and offshore, including at abyssal depths. See parabolic dunes up to 5-km long, economic concentrations of ilmenite, rutile, and zircon, perched lakes, and coloured sands.
Highlights	World Heritage listed Fraser Island, "coloured sands" lakes, rainforests, surf beaches, land and marine life.
Leader	Mr Mal Jones, Geological Survey of Queensland
Notes	Accommodation at the Kingfisher Bay Resort
Booking This field trip does not include an option for the booking of an additional flight or does not involve air travel.
Itinerary
Day 1	Brisbane to Fraser Island	Saturday 11th August
	Depart Brisbane and travel by coach via the Glasshouse Mountains, Gympie and Maryborough to River Heads where you will catch the ferry across to Fraser Island. On arrival you will have an information session about the interaction between fluvial (Mary River) and tidal influences in Great Sandy Strait before meeting for dinner.
	Meals: L /D	Overnight: Kingfisher Bay Resort
Day 2	Fraser Island	Sunday 12th August
	After breakfast spend the day visiting Eurong, Lake Waby, Happy Valley (Yidney Rocks), Indian Head and Middle Rocks, before returning to Kingfisher Bay for an information session on the termination of largest littoral drift system on east coast of Australia, wave and wind activity and sea level change as landscape controls. Afterwards there's time to freshen up before dinner.
	Meals: B /L/ D	Overnight: Kingfisher Bay Resort
Day 3	Fraser Island	Monday 13th August
	After breakfast spend the morning whale watching on the western side of Fraser Island followed by visits to Lake Mackenzie, Eurong and Inskip Point before returning to Kingfisher Bay for an information session on the Hervey Bay shoreline of Fraser Island showing reasons for the contrast in coastal types north and south of Fraser Island, as well as "what is" and "what is not" the Great Barrier Reef. You will also learn about the fringing reefs of Hervey Bay,Holocene beach ridge accretion at Inskip Point where there are heavy mineral concentrations, the dynamic nature tidal delta at the southern entrance to Great Sandy Strait and the dispersive environment for heavy minerals.
	Meals: B /L/ D	Overnight: Kingfisher Bay Resort
Day 4	Fraser Island	Tuesday 14th August
	Free day at Kingfisher Bay to take a nature walk, canoe, relax around the pool or walk along the beach.
	Meals: B /L/ D	Overnight: Kingfisher Bay Resort
Day 5	Fraser Island to Brisbane	Wednesday 15th August
	After breakfast depart Fraser Island on the ferry and return to Brisbane via River Heads, Rainbow Beach and the resort town of Noosa, with an information session along the way about the wave dominated coast, southward continuation of landform features – dunes, coloured sand, humicrete – with some differences such as calcareous aeolianite at Double Island Point. Arrival into Brisbane with own arrangements for onward travel.
	Meals: B/L
Equipment Required:
	Participants should be prepared for warm weather. Swimsuit recommended and sun hat, sneakers or beach sandals and strong walking shoes are essential.