The House is fully self contained and beautifully fitted out. It was carefully designed to take advantage of the island's mild sub-tropical climate and to maximise your privacy and comfort.

Orchid Beach is on Marloo Bay in the north east of the island and is the peaceful alternative to the busier southern resort settlements of Kingfisher Bay, Eurong and Happy Valley. We don't have a resort hotel, heavy beach traffic, tour buses or day-trippers. The nearby vehicle-free beach between Waddy Point and Champagne Pools is popular with families.

Children can swim in the saltwater Champagne Pools, the freshwater Ocean Lake, and in the many shallow lagoons and low tide gutters along the beach in the sheltered bay or climb and slide down the many high sand hills.

A 35 kilometre drive north will take you up the beautiful wilderness area beach to Sandy Cape and around the tip of the island to the historic lighthouse and wartime bunkers.

Please drive carefully and don't disturb the nesting turtles or sea birds.

You are only 30 minutes from the island's western beach at Wathumba Creek and Platypus Bay where whales rest with their calves on their annual migration south. The Wathumba Creek estuary is renowned as a bream spawning ground and for the abundance for flathead, whiting and mud crabs. The Orchid Beach to Wathumba track crosses 16 kilometers of varied landscape containing unique flora such as the Orchid Beach native orchid, palms, ancient cycads, grass trees and beautiful seasonal wildflowers on the wallum heathlands.

When strong winds blow onto the exposed main eastern beach south from Indian Head you can always find a sheltered area to fish or relax near Orchid Beach. The coast from Indian Head past Orchid Beach to Sandy Cape is famous for it's beauty and the variety, number and size of fish caught all year round.

The annual tailor fishing season is from June to December when massive schools of tailor migrate to spawn between the island's only rock headlands, Indian Head and Waddy Point. The largest tailor, around 5kg, are caught here later in the season. Tailor get into a feeding frenzy with personal catches of 100 or more not uncommon, but a bag limit means you can only keep 30. Although fishing on and between the headlands is closed for all August and September, to leave spawning fish undisturbed and to protect this unique resource, all other beaches are open to fishing and crowded with schools of fish.

Get away and experience all the magic of the world's largest sand island.

Explore, 4wd, fish and be as active as you want or just put your feet up with a book from our library, a plunger coffee or a favourite drink and enjoy the sunsets from the beach or verandah.

For more information on Fraser Island see our comprehensive "Fraser Coast Links".

Waddy Point

Orchid Beach, Marloo Bay

Champagne Pools

Wathumba Creek,
Platypus Bay

Waddy Sunset Fishing

Cape Lighthouse