Fraser Island - some tips

Many years ago we had a convoy of 4 vehicles coming down a decent hill on an inland track and were confronted with a bus coming up the opposite direction (us already pretty much at the bottom of the incline) , the bus expected our party of 4 vehicles to reverse back up the hill for him to continue going. We had nowhere to be and after a quick discussion on our uhf radios we parked our vehicles up and hopped out of them, then after several minutes stand off the bus decided he’d better back up if he was any hope of continuing on his journey...he only had to reverse about 30mtrs back and there was an area with more then enough room for us to get past him, amazing how arrogant some of the drivers over there can be. It was shear stupidity on his behalf to expect vehicles to reverse up a decent incline, let alone it being sand.
On another occasion I have previously sent a complaint email to Kingfisher Resort over one of thier bus drivers behaviour at Eli Creek, the way he drove through the middle of families laying in the water was rediculous and dangerous to those there well before his arrival, he looked to do it just to make a splash for the passengers onboard....all other buses were driving around the water instead before parking up. A mate confronted the driver about his actions, but you could tell he didn’t realise what he’d done was a danger to those in the water and it fell on deaf ears. I got a response from the resort quite quickly asking for the buses ID number, but I never gave them the number (which I had) as I didn’t want the person to lose thier job over doing something he didn’t realise was stupid to do...instead I suggested they tell all thier drivers not to drive through the middle of families in the water there, and drive around them instead, like the majority of other buses there on the day were doing.

If he was too stupid to realise that what he did was stupid, then IMO he's too stupid to hold that job. A driver with a bus licence is supposed to have a higher level of knowledge and skill than your average car driver. For heavens sake do people, especially professional drivers, really need to be individually told not to drive through family groups splashing about in a well known tourist attraction? He should have known what he was doing. IMO you were too kind.

Spent a few days walking Fraser Island Great Walk in May. Zero sunshine apart from at the Lakes. Totally under tree canopies, great for the fair skinned, red haired freckled people of the world !
I had no idea how addicted to direct sunlight I was, I was pleased to get to the coast and direct sunshine at the end

Mark

Don't expect your Solar Panels to work at Central Station, too shady. Last time we were there, had to run the car for an hour in the morning & afternoon while connected to the camper just to keep the camper batteries topped up.

Macca.

The old Central Station camp area used to be a nice sunny grassed area, was only suitable to tents due to it’s access to the area and a spot we regularly used to camp at many many moons ago...we took one look at where they moved the new site to way back when, and we have never camped there since.

Hi Genny
Central Station was a good camp spot, in fact anywhere else it would have been awesome, but as a southerner, I was really desperate to get a bit of warm sun!
We had no problems with power. Our fridge is in our car, and as we were out driving every day, we had no problems keeping the fridge power supply charged up. As for the camper itself, we only run LED lights so had no trouble with power shortages there.
If we stayed at Central again, we would go into the Satinay campground. Kauri is the first one you drive into and I think tends to be a bit more popular, but not a huge difference between the two. The septic tanks for the loos are on the Kauri side, but not too bad in terms of odour.
Hope you enjoy your trip.