Tree and Dune, Badjala Sandblow

This is the definitive photograph of the 25 sandblows on Fraser Island. Sandblows bury the forests in their path as they are blown across the island by the prevailing South-Easterly winds. Only hundreds of years after being buried do the trees' skeletons become exposed again. Although these forests die under tonnes of sand, every hill on Fraser Island is there through the action of a sandblow. If you were to return to this place in 1000 years it would all be covered by plants again.