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Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1031037
Hey everyone. Thought I would share some pictures from a week long Fraser Island trip that I just got back from. Had two Bajas and my Baja bus, plus a few waterboilers.
Happy to say that the bus went everywhere on the island and did all of the hard tracks. Was very impressed with how it performed.


On the barge.











Parked up at Eli Creek.











Heading north through Ngkala Rocks South Bypass track.











Lighthouse at Sandy Cape.








Lake Garrawonga.





A few old wrecks for Keith. Check out that bullbar!














Bit of a hillclimb up the the old Tower.





Nice view from up here!














You can see the old aircraft hanger. The runway is all overgrown.





And we found this written on one of the posts inside!!





Lake McKenzie.











Looking at the turtles at Lake Allom.











Out to the west coast for a swim.








Coming back the Awinya Creek track.


























Sign at Champagne Pools says it all.





Awning city back on the west coast again.








View from Lake Wobby lookout.





Lake Birrabeen, this is my favourite lake.








Packed up ready to head home.





A couple of tag-a-longs!






Smiley 🙂
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grinderman Officially Full-On Dubber

378 posts · joined Apr 2011 ·

#1031041
Love it Smiley. Nice to see a budget bus that's so capable off road.
What sort of pressures were needed to get through the soft stuff?

Andy Andy\'s Adventures

2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#1031047
Looks like an excellent trip! Pity I missed you all, I was up there earlier in the month!

Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1031053
grinderman wrote:Love it Smiley. Nice to see a budget bus that's so capable off road.
What sort of pressures were needed to get through the soft stuff?

I had 12 in the front and 8 in the back. Went everywhere and made some 4WDs look like fools 🙂


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Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1031091



Video of the track coming back from Awinya Creek.

Some big holes in that.


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mactaylor Custom Title Time!

1,005 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#1031095
Awesome smiley!
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Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1031104
mactaylor wrote:Awesome smiley!
Thanks mate. Had a blast!

Some more wheel lifts for you all 🙂





Smiley 🙂
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modnrod Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Mar 2011 ·

#1031108
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Good stuff!
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oldskoolguy Officially Full-On Dubber

329 posts · joined Sep 2011 ·

#1031220
👍 Great post. 👍
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Thunderfury 2575 Casual Dubber

23 posts · joined Dec 2016 ·

#1033850
Good recap, looks like it was a lot of fun!
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njg02 Seriously Crusin Dubber

145 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#1033851
Hi Smiley.

Is Ngkala rocks as easy as it looks? Taking the Touareg in a couple of weeks and want to try to get to the Cape.

Neil
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Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1033887
njg02 wrote:Hi Smiley.

Is Ngkala rocks as easy as it looks? Taking the Touareg in a couple of weeks and want to try to get to the Cape.

Neil
If you let your tyres down it is a piece of piss. I think it gets a bit of a rep for being so difficult cause a lot of people are too lazy or stubborn to drop air pressure. The bus chugged through it no worries.
I would guess that you should have no dramas if you have some reasonable ground clearance and drop your tyres down.

Smiley 🙂
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njg02 Seriously Crusin Dubber

145 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#1033918
Thanks mate. Going down next weekend.

Neil
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Smiley Veteran Volks Folk

2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·

#1033922
njg02 wrote:Thanks mate. Going down next weekend.

Neil
Very nice. Enjoy it mate, it's one of my favourite places to go.

We should catch up sometime. Maybe do a 5 Rocks run?

Smiley 🙂
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njg02 Seriously Crusin Dubber

145 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#1033933
Thanks mate.

Next time we go up to 5 rocks I'll give you a yell.

Neil
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1958kafer Officially Full-On Dubber

229 posts · joined Feb 2007 ·

#1033946
Fantastic! Living the dream!