Thread: 90 in trouble on Fraser Island

Ditto.

Originally Posted by D90 orkney

I'm going there with my girlfriend over Xmas. I expect it to be packed 😞

Busy is Boxing Day until a few days after New Years. Pretty quiet outside of that.

Pretty much exactly when we will be there. Only time my girlfriend could get off.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I've been there heaps of times, you would love it JC. These guys are just making hard work of things that need not be. One of my favorite destinations.

My last trip was '99....in the first D2 we had.

The trip before was '74 during the Christmas school holidays and the floods and cyclone.

I did numerous trips and spent months at a time there with my parents as my father did a lot of environmental work for the sand miners,Qld museum,etc,from '69 to '76.

No maps In those days,we worked off Ariel photographs and with a compass.

No help from anyone if you got bogged or had a vehicle break down.At times we didn't see a tourist for three weeks.

IMHO the place is wrecked,but My opinion only.

The only way to stop the place getting more damaged is to reduce the number of tourists(which will probably never happen),and stop public access to more areas.

Maybe that is because I can remember what the place was originally like.Those trips were some of the best times we ever had

Moreton isn't to bad.Going mid week is the best,the cost of the barge seems to keep many of the undesirables away.

North of Champagne Pools is quieter. I think that's the limit of hire cars.

JC I'd take the L322. I was very impressed with mine on Moreton. Your td6 with the remap sounds similar to the tdv8. The extra power and torque is no comparison to the mighty 4BD1T. The L322 floor is flat. I kept a plastic scrubbing brush in the door and gave the sand a brush out at the end of the day. I also have mats. Sand wasn't a problem even with kids.

That 90 owner made a very costly error. It was clearly deep. The 90 would be more prone to floating and losing traction with no tank in the back.

Up in the nth of Fraser are lots of shallow puddles of brackish freshwater. For some reason every now and then I found one that looked shallow like the others but was about 4ft deep. You need to be careful of those. I was glad to be in the 110 then. Although the L322 probably would have been ok. It was only a brief dunking.

Originally Posted by rar110

That 90 owner made a very costly error. It was clearly deep.

Yes

Originally Posted by rar110

The 90 would be more prone to floating and losing traction with no tank in the back.

I know mine doesn't run off compliments and the occasional car-wash. It drinks diesel. Out of a tank. In the back.

Originally Posted by scarry

My last trip was '99....in the first D2 we had.

The trip before was '74 during the Christmas school holidays and the floods and cyclone.

I did numerous trips and spent months at a time there with my parents as my father did a lot of environmental work for the sand miners,Qld museum,etc,from '69 to '76.

No maps In those days,we worked off Ariel photographs and with a compass.

No help from anyone if you got bogged or had a vehicle break down.At times we didn't see a tourist for three weeks.

IMHO the place is wrecked,but My opinion only.

The only way to stop the place getting more damaged is to reduce the number of tourists(which will probably never happen),and stop public access to more areas.

Maybe that is because I can remember what the place was originally like.Those trips were some of the best times we ever had

Moreton isn't to bad.Going mid week is the best,the cost of the barge seems to keep many of the undesirables away.

I reckon they should triple the camping/access fees and cut the numbers of campers by 2/3rds......sadly we are loving the place to death.

I would certainly pay extra for less people.

My first trip to Fraser was in 1970 when Gordon Elmer st0arted running the barge from Inskip Point. However, my father went across in a Series II 109 SW in 1969 before the barge was operating - drove the Landy onto a fishing boat, with front and rear hanging over each side and needing to wait for the tide before loading and unloading.
He was a keen fisherman and went to great lengths to get to some places.