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Had a great week up off the coast of Brisbane, you guys up there are so lucky to have this at your doorstep.
Finished work on tuesday afternoon and left home about 10pm after I finished packing and watching NCIS. Had a couple of naps on the way up and made it into Brisbane about 11am. We were booked on the 3pm ferry to Stradie but managed to get on th 1pm trip, there was only about 8 cars on the boat.
The view from our accomodation at Samarinda holiday units
We did the drive up to the tripod lookout, the Hema map I had of stradie showed a concrete post on the track & sure enough there it was, only "structure" on the whole track
Brown lake
The Keyholes
North Stradbroke was nice, we were there for our anniversary and had a great time. The North Stradbroke Hotel has to have the best view from any bar in Australia, I dont think Ill have to many beers with that sort of view.
Stradie was the kind of place where we felt very welcome but shouldn't tell anyone about it, its definently not overly touristy and hopefully it stays that way.
Next we were off to Moreton,and boarded the Kooringal trader at Amity for the trip across.
Our camp site at Blue Lagoon campground
The Blue Lagoon
the wrecks at Bulwer
Cape Moreton Lighthouse and the track back down to the eastern beach. This was the only time it rained all week, while we were walking to the lookout around the lighthouse.
Did the driver along Middle Road to Tangalooma
Sunset & sunrise on the eastern beach
and finaly our ride back to Brisbane on the Combie Trader
Moreton Island is fantastic, the conditions were great and I only had to take a 2nd attempt at a beach exit twice. Although I was told only a week earlier you couldnt drive the length of the eastern beach due to a strom taking the sand away and the making the rocks inpassable.
We passed a group having trouble with a Mazda tribute and a Mitsubishi chalenger on the track up to North point, our offer of help was proudly refused and the prado just walked around them in high range as if it was a tared road. You should have seen the looks on there faces.
The tracks are a little chewed up where people dont let their tyres down enough, take them down to 18psi and you should have no problems.
And watch the tides, we had a very early morning the day we left as we had to leave camp on the eastern side at 7am in order to beat the tide and make it to the track over to Bulwer, than had to wait till 1030 for the barge.
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Finished work on tuesday afternoon and left home about 10pm after I finished packing and watching NCIS. Had a couple of naps on the way up and made it into Brisbane about 11am. We were booked on the 3pm ferry to Stradie but managed to get on th 1pm trip, there was only about 8 cars on the boat.
The view from our accomodation at Samarinda holiday units
We did the drive up to the tripod lookout, the Hema map I had of stradie showed a concrete post on the track & sure enough there it was, only "structure" on the whole track
Brown lake
The Keyholes
North Stradbroke was nice, we were there for our anniversary and had a great time. The North Stradbroke Hotel has to have the best view from any bar in Australia, I dont think Ill have to many beers with that sort of view.
Stradie was the kind of place where we felt very welcome but shouldn't tell anyone about it, its definently not overly touristy and hopefully it stays that way.
Next we were off to Moreton,and boarded the Kooringal trader at Amity for the trip across.
Our camp site at Blue Lagoon campground
The Blue Lagoon
the wrecks at Bulwer
Cape Moreton Lighthouse and the track back down to the eastern beach. This was the only time it rained all week, while we were walking to the lookout around the lighthouse.
Did the driver along Middle Road to Tangalooma
Sunset & sunrise on the eastern beach
and finaly our ride back to Brisbane on the Combie Trader
Moreton Island is fantastic, the conditions were great and I only had to take a 2nd attempt at a beach exit twice. Although I was told only a week earlier you couldnt drive the length of the eastern beach due to a strom taking the sand away and the making the rocks inpassable.
We passed a group having trouble with a Mazda tribute and a Mitsubishi chalenger on the track up to North point, our offer of help was proudly refused and the prado just walked around them in high range as if it was a tared road. You should have seen the looks on there faces.
The tracks are a little chewed up where people dont let their tyres down enough, take them down to 18psi and you should have no problems.
And watch the tides, we had a very early morning the day we left as we had to leave camp on the eastern side at 7am in order to beat the tide and make it to the track over to Bulwer, than had to wait till 1030 for the barge.
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