Fraser Island bogging

[Birdseye]

Reminds me of a photo doing the rounds a while ago of a crane, lifting a crane, lifting a crane....

 

Rising tide strands plane … and the bus that came to its rescue

 

 

[SSCBD]

Oops - how much paperwork?

 

 

[Lucky01]

Ahhh bugger.

 

 

[Birdseye]

But it worked last time....

 

 

 

[facthunter]

If you get offered a cheap blue bus...………. Nev

 

 

[Downunder]

If you get offered a cheap blue bus...………. Nev

Only 3 months old......like new..... (for now...)

 

 

[turboplanner]

Only 3 months old......like new..... (for now...)

If they're working on it now it should be OK; most of the mechanical/electrical will be above a metre, and I've heard of many boat engines saved by a fast scour out. I feel for them; spent a week on Fraser Island in a Nissan 720 4x4 - 1.8 litre diesel with big tyres. It ran on top of the soft sand, but just the same the beach was hard to read; like a billiard table for ten minutes, then you were on full throttle to get through or the creek was twice the depth of the last one.

 

 

[facthunter]

I worked on Army Ducks. The big ones based on the GMC 6x6. The cancer never stops once salt gets through it. Nev

 

 

[APenNameAndThatA]

I am going to land on a beach: never.

 

 

[planedriver]

The "sink rate" is not always what one is expecting.