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Published: September 3rd 2009
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Drove into the back of Eurong and out to the beach. The entrance has a grid with electrified wires running over them and is a pedestrian gate to allow people to walk through, but keeps the dingoes out. A lot of campgrounds have these or gates which have to be closed to keep them dingo proof. The signs are everywhere to remind campers to clean up their campsites or be fined. They hand out recycling bags and there are dump sites for rubbish and recyclables (fenced off) at various sites around the island.
We had another look for a beach campsite. The hardest trouble will be after setting up and driving off, is finding the camper again. As we all know the beach looks very much the same over a 75 mile stretch. Called in to see Happy Valley - a bit run down compared to last time we saw it and the resort is now for Backpackers. There is a new resort built closer to the beach. Saw the Maheno Shipwreck and The Pinnacles, but will have to go back to get decent photos - early in the morning with the sun on the cliffs. There was a car
towing a large boat and trailer bogged at the entrance to Indian Head bypass and everyone was parked and either waiting for their friend to get them out or walking to Champagne Pools. A tour bus of rangers waiting to go to Champagne Pools for a swim said if we were confident we could get past him in the thick sand and we thought why not. Gave it a go and the backpackers watching, just did not want to move. Finally did and we were on our way back down to the beach, up the steep climb to Middle Rocks, parked and walked to Champagne Pools. The tide was a bit far out that the waves were not crashing over the edge of the pools as we had seen before. Kate wanted a piggyback so she wouldn’t hurt her foot, so Rod obliged - right into the water. She screamed and finally had a swim, but didn’t last long, it was too cold. Drove to Orchid Beach for lunch and an ice-cream. The inland road was thick sand and very slow going. Drove on to Ocean Lake, it hadn’t changed, so turned around and went to Waddy Point. The tide
Champagne Pools - Piggyback time
Kate didn't like walking on the rocks had started to turn, so we didn’t want to waste too much time. The kids saw Binnigih Sandblow right near Waddy Point and wanted to climb it. I said yes, as long as they were quick to climb and run down. They started running until the climb started. They tried telling me it was very steep, which I knew, but it would get rid of some of their wriggles. Kate fell on the run down the hill, but got up laughing. In the car and started heading back. Stopped to check out a couple of other campsites and saw the plane land on the beach.
Hadn’t told you about that - there are Airplane Landing Areas along the beach and they also place witches hats and signs to highlight the fact that they land in certain parts of the beach. Well you are busy looking around at the sights, looking at the ever changing beach wash-outs, bumps, rocks, fishermen, pedestrians and other cars, the last thing you expect is a plane falling out of the sky! But it does happen. Anyway, around 4pm everyday the plane flys back to Hervey Bay with the rangers on board. Next day they
come back around 8am with the same or some other rangers. The kids wanted to watch the plane take off, so luckily I had service, got the computer out and checked emails while we were waiting. By the time I had finished on the computer the tide was really threatening, so back into Eurong and inland back to camp. Had an easy tea and an early night - the beach driving really takes it out of you!
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