Thread: Fraser Island

Originally Posted by dobbo

The kids would love it, but................ just say the grandparents offered to babysit, would you decline or grab the car keys?
They'll get spoilt, probably wont even notice we're gone.

Yep...I hear ya...bit of a no brainer really in that case......Smokey would be 10 kms away before they finished their sentence .

Regards

Stevo

Tha whale is an added tourist attraction.

the kids'll never see one of those if they spend all their time getting fat in front a a nintendo wii !

Hopefully the whale is still there when we get there... i really looking forward to it, the plan so far is camp down south near eurong for a day or 2 then head up to orchid beach for a few days then over to the mainland side of the island for a few days to, see all the sites inbetween and get some fishing in,,.. the sand driving side of things should be fine with the ammount of time we have all spent on stockton, but the creek crossings for dobbo and my sister with no snorkells could be interesting!

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Last time we did some exploring over on the west side and had a great time. Found some cool old tracks, an abandoned exchange, abandoned airstrip. Had a great afternoon. I can't wait to do more of this next time.

This sounds very intersting,, where abouts were these abandoned tracks? we explored some on foot last time i was there, tracks to lake bowardy and white like, all the old style tourist signs still up, it was kind of errie....

Originally Posted by cal415

This sounds very intersting,, where abouts were these abandoned tracks? we explored some on foot last time i was there, tracks to lake bowardy and white like, all the old style tourist signs still up, it was kind of errie....

At Bagara. There is a huge steep track going down too There is a deserted machinery shed as well. No one has landed on that strip for some years. The vegetation is chest high. There is one looking South on the strip and one looking up the track up the hill.

The track is shown on the map as continuing but the trees kept getting closer and closer together until I got stuck

Hi,

Just wanted to ask anyone in the know about access from Hook Point. I'm going over to Fraser in 2 weeks (on Sat 21st November). High tide seems to be at 10:30am and Low tide at about 5:30pm (based on Waddy point times, slightly later based on Elbow Point times).

My question is, if we catch the first ferry (7am?) do you think we'll have time to drive up the beach to Eurong before the tide comes in or would we be better to take the inland track (not great reviews from reading other threads) or even the Eurong Road up the west coast and then across?

Any thoughts/comments would be great as I don't really want to wait until 4pm to start driving on Fraser for the weekend, but then I also don't want to get bogged in the soft sand around Hook Point with an imminent high tide!

Thanks,

David

I haven't been there for a bit but I'm going up in early Dec. The sand conditions change constantly, so even if you get a report from the day before it may not be right.

When I have been through there in the past there are only a couple of points around the tip (on the SE corner) that are problematic. If you can get past them you may be ok. In the past when things have been difficult I've seen people driving through salt water to get around trees and the like. If you don't like your car this is an option.

In summary, just ask the barge driver on the way over. Even if you get there and you can't get around then just go the inland track and get off at the first opportunity. It's utterly horrible, but it's probably still a better than spending a day baking on Hook Point.

Anyone been on Cooloola Way lately, I've heard it's abysmal. I haven't used it for a couple of years and it was v. ordinary then.
Supposedly major potholed and seriously corrugated.