Thread: Bribie Island lagoons: Salt or Fresh?

There you go....I have never seen the lagoons open to the sea. I just assumed they were closed lagoons.

To be honest I never tried the water to see if they were salt or not. Our dog used to drink out of the first one....but then again she drank the sea a few times too, silly thing.

Does anyone know if the lagoons are open to the sea at the moment? and I'd be interested to know what they are but at least I'd reckon brackish

NM.....too lazy to log Numpty out

Have been going there a bit lately, in fact was on the beach with my daughters to await sunrise by 04:30 this morning. The lagoons may try to be fresh but they are topped up heavily every high tide and at low tide it is all that water heading back out. I time our trips to only be on the beach around low tide. The lagoons are easy to cross with only a few inches of water if in the right spot.
This morning it was amazing to see how high last nights tide had been. The high water mark was splashing up the dunes at the very top of the beach. If caught out in that tide you would have been well rooted.
You can also see the hight the lagoons would have got to.

We loved it, will do another sunrise soon, tides permitting.

Kenley

Took some amazing photo's if only I was clever enough to follow instructions and show them.

Originally Posted by 300+

I'm thinking of going to Bribie soon but I'm concerned that the flows from the lagoons to the ocean are sal****er. I'm not keen to drive through 2 foot of salt water.

Normally I'd just drive to the first creek and taste it, but in this case I will have to buy a permit before hand...

I've only been there once and the creeks were flowing. I assume that they are there every day or is it something that only happens after heavy rain?

Cheers, Steve

I find it amusing that the swear filter edited this out.....

NM

depends on the water flow..

would be fresh if there has been rain.

ALWAYS and i mean ALWAYS walk them first if they are broken thru as they can be shallow but soft as hell and you can lose a land cruiser to the sills in under 5 minutes and it is a bloody long walk back to the pub from the 2nd lagoon....

ask me how i know.... and no it wasnt mine and i wasnt driving

but i got to walk back to the pub with the owner while the girls had chicken and champagne while watching it sink to the bottom of the windscreen .....

needed a hough loader to dig it out....

Originally Posted by numpty

I find it amusing that the swear filter edited this out.....

NM

Eh? Aah, took me a minute to work out what was happening.

Or has water become a dirty word in Qld? There is either not enough or waaaay too much.

Cheers, Steve

having a go at photo's

Here is a shot showing the width of the beach on Bribie at the second lagoon. Low tide. Not much of a crossing at all but in some places around the lagoon itself you could not even walk without sinking.

How often do you come to the Island Kenley?

Next time your heading up this way PM me, I wouldn't mind having a look at your SVX PLEASE

Plus the missus loves driving on the beach and we havent taken our girls to the beach for awhile.

I have driven through the second lagoon with water halfway up the doors when we had the 75 series ute on a forum meet(4wd monthly) but Ive sold that now.

On the same day I watched a guy in a suzuki cross the same lagoon at least 10 times in a row cause he thought it was fun.