Thread: Towing a camper on Fraser

Depends if it rains!
I drove a VW Type 3 into Central Station, Lake Mckenzie the day after a storm.
I would think the biggest problem is meeting tourist buses on uphill sections, or any narrow section for that matter.
Regards Philip A

Mate, you should be fine...have camped the western side many a time...with fellow club members towing trailers.

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by cal415

There is a chance i will have my v8 county along with us to in which case i am not worried about towing it, but the loaded up 130 towing the camper may struggle if i dont have the county for it.

right, the truth comes out.


Bit of Puma concern, better invite a Suzi owner to tow me out


Come on Mick if I have to bodge my POS back together to support your Puma for the trip so do you.

you will do it easy

i just spent 10 days at awinya during the september school holidays

there was a group of us but none got stuck and we were all loaded up
some places were a little sandy but even my mate in a hyundi terrecan did it easy
the road is a little rough in places but nothing to hard

we did a day trip to indian head and champagne pools and got through at wathumba at low tide but had to come back on the kgari road

we had perfect weather with little wind but had lots of day trippers as the wind was strong on the east coast

we camped 100 meters up from where the awinya track meets the creek
my kids love it there and with very little traffic they can play on the beach or go for a swim in the creek

plenty of whales and if your keen on fishing worms were the best bait for fresh whiting for breakfast

enjoy

You'll be fine, I towed on Fraser and had no problem, much better sand to drive on than Stockton.

Baz.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Depends if it rains!
I drove a VW Type 3 into Central Station, Lake Mckenzie the day after a storm.
I would think the biggest problem is meeting tourist buses on uphill sections, or any narrow section for that matter.
Regards Philip A

Exactly - whether it rains makes all the difference. QPWS does not run the delver across that section of track very often. They do from the beach into the Knifeblade Sandblow semi-regularly but can't go much further west as the tree roots and narrow sections make it difficult.

Tour bus-wise there aren't any of the larger Kingfisher buses that go in from K'gari as the can't get into Lake Allom (narrow sections). So the only buses you're likely to encounter are smaller ones.

that dont use the moon point barge anymore so traffic on the east west road is pretty light

we were there in school holidays and traffic wasnt a bother

No to concearned about the tracks once i am up near lake allom, just the climb leading up to there, also the climb coming back up from awinya creek but we will probobly go back through bowardy on the way back as its much flatter.

Has anyone towed a decent size camper up from Kgari past lake allom before? its a Kimberly Kamper platinuum, weighs in about 750kg unloaded so its fairly hefty.