Fabulous Fraser Island
We called in at Noosa for a quick overnight stop, and unfortunately missed any surf, which was a shame because it looked like a great spot. Decided to push on for Fraser Island, which involved a barge across the Noosa River then a couple of hours driving up Cooloola beach to another barge across to Fraser Island.
Found a quiet little spot to camp along the eastern beach (otherwise known as the beach highway!) and settled in for a few days. And really only encountered one dingo that lurked around our camp for a bit, and then stealthily took a fish while Tim was fishing close to the water. Tim came back to a knocked over bucket and a set of dingo prints leading up to the bucket and then away from it! The Parks & Wildlife hammer the ‘dingo awareness’, there are signs everywhere about not leaving food or rubbish out, how to behave if a dingo approaches, to the point where you start to feel a little paranoid that there is going to be a bloodthirsty dingo behind every bush.
Fraser Island is a pretty amazing place, had to keep reminding ourselves that we were on a big patch of sand. Especially when we were in some lush rainforest in the middle of the island. The perfectly clear creek running through with a white sandy bottom was a bit of a giveaway though. We got to the famous Lake McKenzie of the perfectly clear blue water over the white sandy bottom, and it was beautiful.
Fraser Island is also incredibly popular with backpackers and apparently hostels in Hervey Bay and Noosa put together self-drive tours of 8 or 9 backpackers in a troopie - obviously with the bench seats still in the back! - and all their gear on roofracks on the top. It was a big thing, we saw so many troopies while we were there, Elsie felt quite at home.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Toyota sponsored Fraser Island, there were that many troopies there. And Toyota did actually sponsor a big fishing expo/competition on the island that was quite clearly HUGE although luckily it was all happening well away from where we were camped and wasn’t due to start until after we left. But the blokes and their huge array of boats started arriving a few days before the competition started and on our last day there, the traffic up the beach was quite intense. There was a tricky bit of soft sand to get past a rocky headland, and there was a huge lineup of cars towing boats getting towed by another car, people watching all the fun (!), jeering at one bloke who got bogged, all with stubbies in hand. 4WD’ing as spectator sport!?!?!?
Found a quiet little spot to camp along the eastern beach (otherwise known as the beach highway!) and settled in for a few days. And really only encountered one dingo that lurked around our camp for a bit, and then stealthily took a fish while Tim was fishing close to the water. Tim came back to a knocked over bucket and a set of dingo prints leading up to the bucket and then away from it! The Parks & Wildlife hammer the ‘dingo awareness’, there are signs everywhere about not leaving food or rubbish out, how to behave if a dingo approaches, to the point where you start to feel a little paranoid that there is going to be a bloodthirsty dingo behind every bush.
Fraser Island is a pretty amazing place, had to keep reminding ourselves that we were on a big patch of sand. Especially when we were in some lush rainforest in the middle of the island. The perfectly clear creek running through with a white sandy bottom was a bit of a giveaway though. We got to the famous Lake McKenzie of the perfectly clear blue water over the white sandy bottom, and it was beautiful.
Fraser Island is also incredibly popular with backpackers and apparently hostels in Hervey Bay and Noosa put together self-drive tours of 8 or 9 backpackers in a troopie - obviously with the bench seats still in the back! - and all their gear on roofracks on the top. It was a big thing, we saw so many troopies while we were there, Elsie felt quite at home.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Toyota sponsored Fraser Island, there were that many troopies there. And Toyota did actually sponsor a big fishing expo/competition on the island that was quite clearly HUGE although luckily it was all happening well away from where we were camped and wasn’t due to start until after we left. But the blokes and their huge array of boats started arriving a few days before the competition started and on our last day there, the traffic up the beach was quite intense. There was a tricky bit of soft sand to get past a rocky headland, and there was a huge lineup of cars towing boats getting towed by another car, people watching all the fun (!), jeering at one bloke who got bogged, all with stubbies in hand. 4WD’ing as spectator sport!?!?!?
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