Camping on Moreton Island

[rodxj]

Originally Posted by ian

Rod i dropped into your place for a visit on sat, now I know why no one was home. Have a good holiday mate.

Hey Ian, cheers mate ,I'll give you a call when I get back

Originally Posted by kj69

where did u end up rod?

We are camping on the Bulwer bypass track, just off the Western beach. Gorgeous spot out of the wind and 20 paces to the beach

[kj69]

The spot where the beach is closed and you turn left on to the track ?

[rodxj]

Nah mate, we're a couple of kays south of Comboyuro camp

[BennyC76]

Hey, I am heading over to Moreton later this week from New Year’s and will be staying at north point campground. Does anyone have any good recent/current info about the north point campsite other than what is available on National parks web site? (Specifically drinking water: I have read that you can get it locally…. but National parks states otherwise)

Additional can anyone tell me what they are charging for bags of ice right now, on the island?

Cheers

BennyC

[piggy]

Hi Benny I just got back last night 29/12/13
at Bulwer shops
# ice $7.50 a bag
# loaf of bread $5.00.
# bag of fire wood $23.00.
# 20lt Jerry can of fuel $65.00 (can has to be returned)
# 6pk 4xxxx beer $28 each 6 pack.

water = you can get bore water from the showers/toilet blocks at comboyuro point & north point.
it recommends that you boil it prior to drinking, & people drink it but I didnt.
you can buy drinking water in 10lt containers from the shop.
we took drinking water, & empty containers to fill with bore water for washing, I have an under the bonnet hot water shower system, we all had 20ltrs each to shower in per night.

tracks = the inland tracks are starting to get pretty soft & chopped up now
I towed a 6.8mtr tandem wheel camper & 4 adults & 1 teenager.
it felt like a harder trip with softer sand coming back than going up even with less weight ie- 200ltrs drinking water = empty, 4 cartons alchole = empty, 3 x 60lt fridges now empty ect ect.
if they got the rain last night the sand would be all firmed up again.
police:-
police are patrolling the island, they like to sit about 200mtrs up from where the barge lands with high powered binoculars watching all that come off the barge, checking for seat belts, & drink driving. Dont drive off the barge without your seat belt on or a beer in your hand. ROAD RULES APPLY.
Rangers:- are trying to protect their island & will fine you if they catch you doing something wrong ie burning local(bush timber), parking or driving on the dunes, & I found that they dont like it if you water ski/skurf behind the jeep.
North point:-
has really nice rolling waves, crystal clear water (same as everywhere) the champagne pools have alot of sand in them & only work well at high tide but still awsome if your up for getting your jocks full of sand , the track in is long soft & lumppy, but way better than middle road (that crosses the island)
we drove from Comby point to north point for surf about every 2nd day.
Ship wrecks:-
awesome snorkeling, HUGE FISH, crystal clear water so make a day of it down there.
best times to snorkle is 1hr before & up to 1hr after the high tide, any time before or after that the tide is ripping out too fast & will make it too hard & dangerous. its a long swim so we paddled out with our surf boards & tied them up at the wrecks.
there are nearly enough yaughts & bouts moored in there for new years eave you could nearly walk across to the wrecks.
anyway, we had a ball, best 2 weeks we have had in years, & was worth every $ spent to do it.
cheers Piggy

[Hounds]

We did not get much rain last night so the tracks are still shit. People getting bogged all over.

We sat at the Belwer wreck and watched about 5 get stuck there over an hour and a half.

Had to go and rescue a mate and his Prado from the Cowen by-pass track yesterday. he had it up to the axels. Maxtrax did the trick surprisingly, I thought he was to far in for them to work.

Patrol and Challenger in our party also got bogged with an easy Maxtrax recovery.

Only one not the get stuck, the GC!......yet.

And yea, ice is a rip off. It was ONLY $6 when we were here at Easter.

[BennyC76]

Thanks for the info piggy.

Just returned from a 5 day trip. Was well impressed, having spent many years holidaying at Fraser Island. I am very happy to have done the moreton island holiday trip.

The inland tracks were pretty good, there have been some recent rain. Only used 4h occasionally, but running 18 psi on 285/70/17. The water colour is amazing, turquoise with the most enticing gutters and the beaches are great to drive at low tide.

The barge is expensive but when you weigh up the cost of the 3-4 hour travel time to Fraser Island then they are comparable destinations.