Thread: Ten Things About Fraser Island

Originally Posted by Quiggers

The more I read about Fraser Island, the less I want to go there, just seeing the ferries loading north of Rainbow was enough...

.......appears, Queensland you can drive, rotten, provided the surface is sand and you have yellow springs, I'm sure you get my drift.......

Maybe one day, when there is an aparthied system - as in: one week a quarter for Land Rover people, the rest for, well, you know......

But, glad you had a good time!

GQ

Yeah we did have a good time. And really, the number of yobbos is low compared to the people who do the right thing. Even tho it was supposed to be a crowded time, there were lots of places where there were less cars than Woolies Maleny. It wasn't hard to escape :-)

Originally Posted by Quiggers

The more I read about Fraser Island, the less I want to go there

You have to go even if it's just once, it's a great place, I loved it and no I'm not a rev head.
One of my fave places in Australia.

Except for the time I used the public toilet, then got screamed at for taking a d*mp in someone elses pit toilet. Honestly I thought it was a public toilet.
You can understand why they got annoyed though eh.

Originally Posted by Hunchy

1. A TD5 auto will give you around 17 litres per 100 km when you mix inland track driving (low range, soft sand) with beach driving (high range, hard sand).

Must have been mighty soft..... That's about the same as my V8 DiscoII last september

Originally Posted by Hunchy

10. Mobile phones work at Lake Mckenzie, Orchid Beach and Kingfisher Bay. Anywhere else, you're out of luck.

FYI .. they also work in a small area in the north east corner of Dilli Village camp ground... last seen marked with a small pile of sticks by the 15yo that camped with us



Glad you had a great time.... it really is a place to visit at least once..

Mark

We were there in November and had a great time. Except for the tour bus drivers I can't say that there is anything wrong with the place.

We will be going back for sure. The kids did not want to leave.

Originally Posted by Hunchy

1. A TD5 auto will give you around 17 litres per 100 km when you mix inland track driving (low range, soft sand) with beach driving (high range, hard sand).

It gets a lot worse if you're running a 110 at a touch under 3.5tonne, running on aggressive narrow profile mud tyres and when you get the tides wrong forcing you to drive in the soft stuff at the hi-tide mark!!??!!

I didn't get bogged though...

BTW - For those that haven't been, Fraser IS the place to go. Forget Cape York.. Fraser was the highlight of our trip around Oz.

M

I can only sing Frasers Islands praises, have been twice last year and back again in March this year. Love the place, the environment, camping on the beach. I think anywhere at a busy time it going to have idiots, it isnt only reserved for Fraser and to be honest never really noticed much if any of that sort of behaviour. I can drive down the shops and get confronted by more idiots than a whole 4 days there. Oh and 4.4 V8 averaged around 15.5 on the sand and tracks

Regards

Stevo

Let's do a time warp and bring this forward to now.

Heading off there for 10 days soon. Hopefully most of the yobbos will be back at work, tho no doubt the green monsters and white troopies full of Swedish backpackers will be around ...

What's the go with the ferries from Inskip ??
Still 2 operating ? And which is the one not part of Kingfisher Resort ??

Cheers

Originally Posted by Quiggers

The more I read about Fraser Island, the less I want to go there, just seeing the ferries loading north of Rainbow was enough...

.......appears, Queensland you can drive, rotten, provided the surface is sand and you have yellow springs, I'm sure you get my drift.......

Maybe one day, when there is an aparthied system - as in: one week a quarter for Land Rover people, the rest for, well, you know......

But, glad you had a good time!

GQ

We went to Fraser last November with a few other families and had a ball. I will go back again. All depends on what you want. I surpose if I wanted complete isolation I would do a desert crossing.