Distance/Time from Brisbane to Fraser

Barges from Inskip or Hervey Bay?

Allow 1 3/4 hours to get to the Noosa River ferry. Then the trip to Inskip along the beach would depend on tides etc. Plenty of places to stop along here to go swimming or sightseeing. If you want ASAP then go via Gympie along the road and you have no tides to worry about.

I'd allow a day to do the trip from Brisbane to Fraser via Inskip along the beach. Can be done much quicker but what's the fun in that?

Hi Brad

"is there any major attractions between Brisbane and Fraser"

Well, there's only all of the sunshine coastlink text
and then all of the cooloola region

So depends what you mean by attarctions.
There's only about 100km of pristine beaches, plenty of fishing spots, theme parks and zoos, glasshouse mountain, 4wd areas, some nice little towns, bushwalking and kayaking spots, cinemas, restaurants, wineries etc.

So take your time and enjoy,

R.

The quickest way to Fraser is direct to Inskip via the Bruce Highway to Gympie and then out to Rainbow beach and Inskip. About a three hour drive (200km to Gympie and about 80 to Rainbow) Barge takes about 15 minutesto Hook Point.
The other way is continue on through Gympie to Maryborough, (about 300km) then in to Hervey Bay to get the barge from River Heads. Allow about 4 hours this way. The barge takes about 45 minutes to the Kingfisher Resort.
Enjoy your trip.

Attractions Galore...

"CRIKEY" you could go and see the crocs at Australia Zoo and the new tiger cubs they have, there's go carts, Big Pineapple is still going...just, and of course the tourist drive along the bunya mountains. If you work your tides right, go via Noosa/Tewantin Barge, the trip is a little shorter and much more enjoyable, plus your in 4wd alot quicker as well! Around $5 for the barge last time I went.

Cheers

Chris.

I agree with MrBitchi. It took us about 3 hours from Eagle Farm to Rainbow Beach, with a bit of a stop at Gympie.

Fuel tip if you take diesel, at Kybong (a few kms before Gympie) there is a Matilda servo and information centre. Out the back is a Shell truckstop that was selling diesel at about 99c/L. About 5c/L cheaper than elsewhere in at the time and about 10c cheaper than in NSW.

You'd probably want to top up at Rainbow Beach before hitting Fraser anyway - cheaper than the $1.40+ on Fraser.

Scenario 1 . Depends on tides . Example of my last trip . High tide was 11.30 am so i left brisbane at 11.30 am . Travelled up the bruce highway and stopped at ettamogah pub . Then we travelled to tewantin via the sunshine coast motorway and then onto the tewantin barge . Headed up the beach to cherry venture where we bought soft drinks and ice creams from the tucker truck at cherry venture . Crossed over the dunes via track and headed to rainbow beach . Reached rainbow beach at about 4pm which was about dead low tide . This gave us an hour to get to the inskip barge to fraser . Arrived at barge at about 4.30pm and got to fraser about 5pm .
Scenario 2 . high tide was 8.30am in brisbane so i left at 8.30am .