Volunteering at Sandy Cape Lighthouse (Fraser Island)

Hey Andrew

What was the track like behind Brown's Rocks to get to the Cape ?. I was up there last week as well and everybody was saying not to do it or we would scratch the vehicle up and the track was pretty ugly, but obviously you got there no worries, so I only went as far as north Ngkala (should have kept going to catch the big whiting at the Cape).

Cheers

A

hi andrew,
i have done some volunteer work at the lighthouse and surrounds over the years. i havnt stayed there but when i,ve camped at sandy cape many times and have gone up on a daily basis and helped out cutting fire breaks and done some turtle tagging with Aub the ranger.

i go up each year and have met many temp. caretakers and got the impression it was mainly bureau of met people who had a shoe in.
i notice the contact email is Aub but cant read the details??

a magic spot and i will be back November.

regards peter
do you geocache?

hi andrew,
i didnt know about the weekend activity, until the flood of emails early in the week.
i have another one placed at the lighthouse, it has been there since november, had a problem with my gps and havnt been able to activate it.
sounds like a good trip was had.

regards peter/sidknee

I must do this. I worked as a lighthouse keeper at the end of the '70s for two years. I have many nostalgic memories about this and to do a volunteer shift would be great. In my day 'weathers' were numerically encoded and sent via VHF radio. I imagine they'd be a bit different today if they use volunteers.

Any further info would be appreciated.