Fraser Island

Wow – I can’t believe we’re actually here. It’s been a childhood dream for years. I’ve planned numerous times over the years, but it just never happened.

Although we have ‘EDGE’ wireless broadband, it doesn’t seem strong enough to get this post out, so you’ll be reading this tomorrow. From about mid day today, we ran the spot in ‘Tracking’ mode, so you should have a nice map of how we got here at 10 minute intervals.

  Throughout our drive there was plenty of evidence of recently subsided water, but I must say, our route was perfect, circumventing all of the trouble spots. This picture to the left is of a water height post… that’s 13 and 14 metres, not 130-140 centimetres.

We bought our barge pass at 16:15 but were informed by the useless girl at the service station (after completing half the process of buying our barge pass) that she could not process our order for our camping and vehicle pass. She said the website was down and to go up the road to the National Parks office… it closed at 16:00…. thanks.

We tried to call the 13 number but no Vodafone coverage, but could get internets at Inskip point. The website was broken… at the very end of the process of ordering the pass. When I tried to ask the barge skipper as to what we do, he just barked over the PA to get the car on the barge. It was their last run tonight and we were no doubt an inconvenience. Oh well, here we go. So before we knew it, we were half way across the water with an interesting floating sensation… in the car. Kind of like driving across a river that is too deep and you start floating down stream!
1st Photo – looking back towards Inskip point
2nd Photo – Looking forward we were one of two cars on the Barge. The other was full of people drinking…
3rd Photo – Just landed, drove down the beach and took a photo.
4th Photo – the rubbish inland road, wow, it was terrible. The roughest road ever that wasn’t a fire trail – with a 50kph speed limit. It’s not the sand, it’s a gravel road.
5th Photo – Our camp for tonight at Dilli Village

I tried to call Mum to see how her birthday was but the phone is out of order.
We’ll try get down on the beach to post this tomorrow.
We were sitting at dinner with a weird feeling… where too from now? We didn’t plan this visit, and we certainly didn’t plan a route along the coast. I imagine we will be basking in the modern luxuries that the coast has to offer.

Chris, would welcome some ideas for cool things to check out? It’s probably going to be too late by the time we get replies. I’m not sure if we’re here tomorrow night.

Love Graeme (oh and Cassie too)

PS. this post was uploaded waiting for tide so we can get to the barge to take us back to the motherland.