Bribie Island tracks condition

As the boat would not start yesterday, we did the round trip on Bribie, up the inland track and back down the beach.

White Patch to Poverty Point.

This is getting quite cut up compared to last year. There are plenty of short stretches of soft sand but you should have no problems in any 4WD and even towing.

Poverty Point to the beach

Parts of this track are still very hard but the soft parts are now extremely soft and deeply rutted. There are now also more of them. You now get long stretches up to km's in length where you need a high clearance 4WD - we even had problems in our Rangie but got through without getting stuck but is was a close call a couple of times.

I would definitely recommend any soft off roaders stay away from this track.

On one of the hard longer straights we had several people come out of the bushes. They were the local cop with a laser gun and breathalyser and Ranger. Our speed had been checked - all OK,(remember it is only 30 or 40kph on that track and on that section 60 to 80kph is very possible), I was breathalysed and permit was checked, you have been warned, no drinking, no speeding and have a permit.

The beach

This is always the best part of the drive and was fantastic as usual. Lots of vehicles incl a lot of RAV4's and X-Trails. The exit from the beach is now cut up and rutted with very soft sand at the exit from the beach. We found a stuck 4wd there who had stopped and bogged himself. The track from the beach to the road is also very soft but passable with no problems

I am not sure how the soft off roaders get off the beach now it is so rough and rutted at the exit.

My question is there has our permit fees gone which are supposed to maintain these tracks as there was maintenance done last year but no sign of it this year.

Stevesub