Tales from the Quim

So we went to Fraser again, this makes 3 visits in the last year, sure it is a stunning place, probably the best camping spot you can drive to, but I really need to stop blowing all my annual leave there. This time we had some new recruits in the Jedi wagon and Cres pax’ing with me.

Guru would have been happy (if he’d come – sand allergy, go figure…) that everyone made it on time at 5:30am to depart, It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the road at 5:30am and Kingsford Smith was bumper to bumper. What’s with people these days? what’s with traffic? bah!

Minimum fuss once we were on the highway, we were straight onto the barge and starting to play up…

It was a fantastic drive up the coast as usual, until we got to Indian Head where not one, but TWO busses were bogged, a lot of people were waiting and looking but we decided to cut through and go around..

Stopped in a the Orchid Beach servo and then on to the South Ngkala Rocks bypass.. Cres I went first and then ended up getting 3 beers in before anyone else came through.. Che5ter came out with 2 cars attached with snatch straps behind him! Show off, alas there was no photo!

We arrived to disturb the peace for IP, Jedi and Wayne (Jedi’s bro), who had been there for a few days in advance and were visibly over-relaxed. I named them the Read Only Crew as they just sat around and watched the green campers destroy the view and peace with little to no movement or facial expression. We packed the weber (thanks to fatty), and didn’t take long to get cooking.

I suppose what goes on tour stays on tour, and I’m sick of writing this blog post… The next tour is Hong Kong from the 17th to the 26th, and the next post after that!

My photos HERE, Jedi’s HERE, Siq’s HERE, more when I find them…

Today I got the big blue bus back with an unbroken gearbox w/ overdrive! It’s like having a 10 speed bike again!

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.