We were at fraser last weekend as
well and copped the winds and swell from cyclone wati. This time we stayed at kingfisher resort so wind was not an issue.
We have been to fraser many times over the past few years and I personally could not believe how the latest series of bad weather had changed the island.
We came on the island via inskip,
hook point was a mess low tide but hardly any beach to drive on. The run up to
Eurong was pretty messy a lot of weed and sloppy scum all over the beachand as said before hardly any beach. As you drove up the eastern beach there was at least a one meter drop onto
the beach so that should give you a bit of an idea as to how much sand has been swept away.
The entrance to
Eli creek was full of a very bad smelling sort of surf foam as were the champaigne pools.
The beach north of
eli creek was a lot cleaner but there was still plenty of errossion,
the entrance to the cutting at
indian head had square cut sand dunes nearly 2 meters high either side of the cutting (the tides had been very high). The inland tracks would have to be the best i have ever seen due to the large amount of rain(did not get to moon point)could have gotten through
indian head in two wheel drive believe it or not and we only had one or two light shower while we were there. To give you a better idea how much sand was missing we were unable to get around any of the rocks even at dead low tide.
What was nice to see was how mother nature fixes itself, when it wes time to leave we drove
the beach again from
eurong to
hook point and
the beach was very clean apart from grass from the dunes all this in four days I could not beleive it,
well it was onto the barge and around
the beach to
rainbow and down to
check out the coffee rocks bad news for anyone wanting to go that way to
double island point it will take months for that sand to come back but in time you would never know it was gone. Regardless of the conditions (weather)fraser island is still one of the most beautiful
places to visit and we will always come back several times each year
regards
ross