On monday morning we arrived at Sunshine Coast airport where James picked us up. A bit later we arrived in Coolum Beach which just 10km from the airport. James had prepared a lovely aussie breakfast for our arrival. Since we didn't plan to go camping before the next day we spent the day at James' place preparing the camping gear and having some drinks in the evening.
The happy campers the day before departure.
Tuesday Feb. 22
Tuesday moring we woke up quite early in order to drive to Inskip Point for camping, unfortunately the weather was really bad with a lot of rain. After some thinking we finally decided to drive up to Inskip to go for camping. We left Coolum Beach around 11am, on the trip was James, my good friend who lives in Coolum Beach, April, Odd-Arne, and me. Arriving at Inskip point about two hours later we started setting up our camp site. The camp site included a portable toilet, a huge tent, a bbq, chairs, tables, gas lights, and so on. The pick-up truck was completely packed when we left Coolum Beach, so this was definitely another type of camping compared to back home in Norway. Luckily there was no more rain when we were setting up our camp site, so after an hour of "building" we had a very nice base from where we could explore the local area including Fraser Island. In the evening we cooked some nice pasta and had some brown eggs, ie. beer.
The happy campers at the camp site.
Odd-Arne and me at the beach at Inskip Point, in the background is Fraser Island.
James, the host and camping boss.
Dinner first night at the camp, Italian food.
Wednesday Feb. 23
This morning April cooked nice pancakes for breakfast, we had them with peanut butter, nutella, and syrup. After this big breakfast we did a small clean up at the camp site and enjoyed the day at the beach while the sun was shining. In the afternoon James fired up the camp fire to make a good base where we could cook the lamb roast later in the afternoon. The lamb roast we cooked with sweet potatos, pumpkin, carrots, and potatoes. Afther two hours over the fire the roast was done and we had a great dinner with some very nice Australian red wine. After dinner and dessert we got on the gin train, and when this train was out of fuel we had to resort to the rum bus which wasn't very bad either...
The beach at Inskip Point.
Odd-Arne and me at the beach.
Fraser Island see from Inskip Point.
James fishing in the surf at Inskip Point, unfortunately no luck this day.
The set up for our lovely lamb roast dinner, it took 2 hours to cook the roast with this method.
Thursday Feb. 24
Waking up on thursday morning the bush turkies had been spreading the garbage from the night before all over the place, so first priority was to clean up all the mess. Later this day Odd-Arne and me went to the ferry that crosses over to Fraser Island and got a free trip over to Fraser. We walked around there for almost one hour and spottet a dingo on our way back to the ferry. Pleased with our achievement we took the ferry back to Inskip and celebrated the Australian wild life with a cold beer from the camping fridge. Just before sunset we went over to the other side of Inskip point and took some great pictures of the sunset. This night we went to bed early since we had the big night the day before and because we were heading back to Coolum Beach the next morning.
The rainbow at Inskip Point.
Me on the beach at Inskip Point.
The sunset at Inskip Point
Friday Feb. 25
As we had planned we packed up our camp site and left in the early morning back to Coolum Beach.
The pick-up is almost ready to head back to Coolum Beach.
The surf club at Coolum Beach.
Coolum Beach.
Coolum Beach.
Even though the weather was very changing we had 4 wonderful days of camping at Inskip Point, thanks to James who had all the equipment and experience to set up this really nice camp site.
