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Date Registered: 04-2006
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Bribie Island 25 April 2007


Hi All,

Took the Exy for its second trip on the beach on Anzac day.

Loaded the family, picnic gear and shade, picked up some friends and their two kids in a Ford Territory and off we went.

My friend in the Territory was very nervous as he had never taken it anywhere near
off-road.

We followed the guide notes from the dirty weekend book to find where to go...if you buy your permit on line there is no need to go past the caravan park ( we followed the instructions like lemmings emoticon ).

We stopped with everyone else and dropped our tyre pressures (25 psi). The road to the beach was no problem, a bit bumpy but no probs. The entrace to the beach was OK except for the big hole I drove into , my friend followed me in. Some nice big bangs and a bounce and we were through and onto the hard stuff - where we stopped and had a look to see what damage we had done. A Mazda tribute must have done the same thing as they were also stopped with the bonnet up.

We saw one other exy and no other Territorys.
We got onto the beach right on low tide so had nice hard sand on the way up.

Took a spin up the beach and the turned around to find a spot on the beach to have lunch closer to the exit as the tide was starting to come in and did not want to have too far to come back in the softer sand.
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It was a perfect day and had a great picnic.
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and a good day ...till we left the beach

On the exit, that hole that my wife had told me to avoid on the way in, was suddenly unavoidable (she was now driving) It was a bigger bang this time - especially for our friends Territory. [SUZ - I feel the need to defend myself - is it an adequate defence to suggest that the hole got bigger during the day from increased use??? emoticon ]

Sometimes momentum is not such a good thing! [SUZ - but it got us out the other side of the hole!!]

The Territory was playing up all over the place on the track to the carpark - sounding terrible, loss of power, shaking etc - my mate was not happy....it turned out to be massive sand build up on the wheels causing the stability control to kick in and retard ignition, apply abs all over the place - once we cleared the sand from the wheels with a couple of sticks it was fine.

The exy handled the softer sand no problems - we followed a Patrols wheel tracks so scraped the belly a bit but no signs of overheating (Auto 2nd and 4WD Auto)

Any way we had a good day out and I can recommend Bribie as a good trip - just watch those holes!! [SUZ - especially the ones that grow...] I think we will go slower next time and hopefully not get stuck.

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Hi Tony,

Not knowing how large the hole was, it might have been a bit of hard work, but if you had spades then between the two of you you might have been able to fill the hole in enough to make it more passable.
This would have been the correct 4wd procedure anyway. emoticon

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Well done Tony.

I like Bribie, any time you want to go back, give us a yell! emoticon

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We did fill the hole - we put the xtrail in it emoticon

It was a big hole or more accurately a dip right as you came off the track onto the beach proper.

Too much traffic to fill it in.

If we had taken it a bit slower it would have been OK. But I guess we were paranoid about getting bogged. With a bit more practice on sand we may have a more confidence to take it slower - this was only our second time on the beach.

Next trip will be in the bush - I think

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quote:

Tony0 wrote:
We did fill the hole - we put the xtrail in it emoticon



hahahahahahaha emoticon

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Great Trip report Tony0, thanks for sharing the details and experience. Havn't taken our exy on the sand yet will have to one day soon but I think I will definatly have to go with a buddy the first time.

Does Bribie have a car wash like like the one up at Noosa when you come off the beach from double Island point?

I'm glad you saw another Exy I was up at Teewah on the week end with mates from work they took what they call real 4WD (Prado) actually not true one guy brought his Rav4 up Saturday afternoon and that seem to do Ok. I had to leave the exy for Liz but it would of been very loney if I took it as I didn't see 1 X-trail the whole weekend. emoticon Low tied was mid-day and there was heaps of good sand to drive on to get up to double island for lunch have a couple of good hours and have a comfortable trip back.

Best swimming was on the south side of the point. Went snorking and saw the biggest logger head turtel ever (was able to get close enough to touch it) a couple of green turtles (a bit quick/timmered) as well as a pair of manta rays, gar fish I think they are called and all the usual little stuff around the rocks. When standing on the light house point we also saw 3 dolphins 1 was only a littely.

Had to be very carful snokeling as there was a terrible rip about 10m out from the rocks. Water would of been just a tad chilly with out the wet suit.

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Hi Robot,

I dont know if there is a car wash on Bribie - sorry. Used the tank water and pressure washer when I got home.

I would not mind doing another trip up there later. I would be much more confident of snatching out another xtrail rather than a ford territory!! emoticon '

PM me if you are looking for a buddy to go.

We stuck to the hard stuff mainly - I would be interested in doing the track to the lighthouse picnic spot next time.

The exy did well on the beach near noosa - see the rainbow beach trip report.

Tony0

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Let me know if you go guys, if I'm free I would love to come for a drive as well! emoticon

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Thanks Tony, would be great to go with someone else who has already been there. Sort of booked out for most the weekends for the next couple of months especially with house renos emoticon but will give you a PM if we get a chance to sneak away. emoticon Will probably be after Jamies trip which looks likly to be on June 2

Jamie the more the merrier I say.



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Rob, the good thing about having an annual pass (for me) is that if you wake up in the morning and the sun is shining on high, it's only 3/4 hour drive and you're drivin' on the sand at Bribie.

Especially now there's no rain the lawn doesn't need mowing as often, yeehah! emoticon

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