I have a 75 series troopie hi top camper and during the last trip to fraser, on the inland tracks it really wallowed around, and had a few people mention
the springs have faded, and i agree! I need to upgrade
the springs, to heavier items. I dont want any more ride hieght, (its high enough!) but i would like a firmer ride, to help stop the body roll.
Does anyone know the best ones to go with? Anyone just fitted some to their troopie latley with good results?
Anyway, I just finished a ten day trip to fraser island, also taking my 12foot tinnie, which we used for three days at wuthamba
creek, which was just fantastic.
We left thursday (me and a mate ben) and fueled up at
rainbow beach, and took the manta ray across to fraser and then set up
camp at coolooli
creek, just nearby on the western side. We fished that night and then up early at 4.30 am packed up to join our freinds who were coming across early that morning on the barge and then we all went up to the base
camp site at burat
camping area ten kays south of
indian head. We stayed there and fished and drank for two days then myself and my mate ben went to wuthamba and camped there for two more days and put the tinnie in the
water. We had problems with the trailer on the bumpy track and had a spring pop out, which was left alone as it managed ok. The outboard leg holder also broke, and we fixed it with some spare bolts, which also broke three more times on the whole trip as they were not big enough. Never mind repaired properly when we got back. We then came back over to the other side to waddy and camped there and tried a go at getting tailor but it was a no fish day. The next day we rejoined our freinds at indian and I went for an early morning fish at
indian head, at 4am. Its like a battlefield that place, very crowded, but I caught 4 large tailor, and a few dart that I threw back. Back to
camp and the next day we fished the gutters around the beaches and found it was another no fish day and there was weed about. Weed stops fishing dead in its tracks. The next day all the others were leaving and we following down, stopping at
eli creek for a swim. The others left the island and we stopped at coolooli
creek for another two days, before we also left to go home. Awesome trip, the only thing i hate about it is coming home, you just want to pack up and go back!
Few photos, two of the bueatifull sunset from wuthamba and one of my rig
http://sancho.ips-mesh.net/Fraser%20trip/Fraser%20trip%202006/cape%20kit.JPG
http://sancho.ips-mesh.net/Fraser%20trip/Fraser%20trip%202006/sunset%20wuthamba.JPG
http://sancho.ips-mesh.net/Fraser%20trip/Fraser%20trip%202006/sunset%20wuthamba2.JPG