2WD's on the Beach

Greg i used to work for gov busses in Sydney, we had a Dope who drove a bus onto Palm Beach to try to rescue a guy in a 4wd thick as. He later transfered to State Rail as a trainee train driver, one day he decided he needed practice so he took a train from Nth Sydney yards for a drive in AM peak you can imagine the chaosRegards Bob
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Greg,

DI is a great place to see it all. I have been going there now for 15 to 16 years and it is getting more and more hectic every time i go there. I have seen it all, from young fellas doing donuts and rolling it to police with radars and RBTs, peolpe towing huge caravans beind bleep y little subi's and of course they don't make it. I have even seen a Ferrari on the beach. Bolew me away really. If you could afford somethiing like that why not buy a 4x4. I used to lend a helping hand for people that got stuck and I still do to those that are genually stuck but if they are stuck in a 2 wheel drive I wave and keep going. They shouldn't be in that predicament in the first place. Any way I actually avoid it now and go that little further to Fraser where there is less idiots about.

Goona

I can assure you this bloke didn't take tours( if he did he catered for everything). He was about 20yo, caftan, long hair( i'm talking bum length), smokin hooch and kept calling me " man".His girl companion sat in the front dazed( I reckon she could'nt get out) and smiled at everything. But then they reckon if you could remember the 70's you wern't there. Seemed a nice bloke though, just could'nt see through the fog.

Geeze.. seeing you guys remember the 70s maybe you can remember a time when there were very few 4wds and people had to use 2wds to get through sand and mud and people were happy to give a hand. Dont forget Australia is was a rural community and in the outback 2wd just had to do the job - and it did. And often it was driver skill and nouse as well as the odd tractor which saved the day.

What you are noticing is that there are now "try hards" as my teenage daughter calls them and "wannabe's" (possibly of a lower IQ, but nontheless) (joke joke) out for a bit of adventure.

I know a fairlaine is not the right example from GregA's experience here but lets ignore the real idiots here.

Only because of a lack of experience and or common sense that they get into trouble - how many people these days get to practice getting bogged safely on the farm - who are we to spoil their fun - just as long as they dont kill or injure anyone why not give them a hand? They may have a genuine reason for being on the beach (to them at least).

Yeah I too think they are fools sometimes but at least they are out of the house doing something adventurous and fun.

Im sorry I have to admire the people who have a sense of adventure - there is too little of it as it is nowdays.

In fact I am more symapthetic to a 2wd stuck than a bogged 4wd with an attitude.

Hope you get my drift
Kes