Fraser and beyond
OK So I’ve been slack and not posted for a while, all the excitement of Fraser was dulled by the breakage of my gearbox in the 60, more on that later.
Fraser Island is still there, we confirmed it had not moved far. The advertised departure times were a bit misleading, IP had to see the meat mechanic so they were delayed a little, I had some small grief I suspect from dodgy diesel but Angry and I had the lead by about 24 hours, so we agreed to meet up with IP and MK up the cape.
We hit Orchid Beach and Waddy Point for 2 days, Iron Chef Bronco took the lead with some Chicken soup hybrid stew and I followed up with some battered deep fried tailor caught fresh from Orchid Beach.
I took some long exposure pics of the full (or almost full) moon at Orchid Beach and the Sandy Cape so I could pad out a blog post more with something that was not about beer or food or 4wd’s or fishing.
After a couple of days of up the cape we were ready to try something new and headed down to Woralie Creek. On the way we encountered a storm and I took this footage of a water spout forming, cool huh.
The west coast beaches are awesome, we were the only people around, we tried out some of the beach, which has some soft bits but with a bit of caution seems like a good mission for another time, Moon Point to Wathumba? hmm, maybe I should get a winch as well :)
On the way back down the coast past Dili Village the idler shaft bearing in my gearbox decided to come to an end of life agreement with the rest of the 60. Got home OK, just made a lot of metal on metal grinding noise on the way :)
MadKitty has some pics and Ironpaw also.