Fraser Island 12-11-21

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Fraser Island 12-11-21

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Friday 12-11-21:
Straight after work on friday afternoon I braved the traffic and headed North to Gympie and grabbed my last KFC for a while before heading to Rainbow Bay to refuel.

I had booked a site at Pelican Bay Campground but could not find it on any of my maps so drove out to Inskip Point to try and find it with no luck.
I headed back and drove toward Bullock Point and spotted it 50 metres from the turn off … may have been called Bullock Point Campground on my older maps.


I found a spot right beside the water and set up camp for the night. Phone signal was very poor and only had the one mossie but set up the flyscreen just in case.

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Saturday 13-11-21:

I awoke to a pretty nice sunrise then packed and headed to Inskip Point to wait for the ferry.





A couple of other cars had camped on the beach and soon joined me to wait until the ferry arrived at about 6:15.

We boarded and received our tickets then climbed up to the bridge to pay on EFTPOS while we ferried across.

It was around 3 hours before low tide but had no probs on the way up the eastern beach.

I stopped for a look at Poyungan Rocks.

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My next stop was at the wreck of The Maheno where I had a good look around the rusting remains.












The Pinnacles was not far away.

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I finally made it to Dundubara Camping area where I set up camp with Jeff at the top end of the camp.





We walked down to the beach for a look before heading back to camp for lunch.

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In the afternoon I headed off for a walk to The Wungul Sandblow and I decided to walk the circuit and nearly lost the light on the way back … the sandblow was all uphill in soft sand and my calves were killing me by the time I got back, a hot shower was a warm welcome to my aching old body.














We cooked up some dinner with no breeze to worry the camp stove before retiring fairly early.

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Sunday 14-11-21:

We had a leisurely start to the day and headed down to Cathederal Beach Resort to buy some internet and a coffee so we could book our next camp at Woralie Creek.


We headed down the beach to the pinnacles and took Woralie Road across to the west stopping in at Lake Allom to see the turtles .

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We turned north for a quick look at Lake Gnarann and then drove the track up to Awinya Creek for a look.

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After driving up the beach a bit we had lunch under a shady tree then back tracked to Woralie Road

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We continued out to Woralie Beach where we set up camp for the rest of the afternoon and lazed the rest of the day away.
We joined the other campers out on the beach to sit and watch the sunset over the water before cooking dinner and retiring.