Hi Mike & All,
Nice pics -- my memories of this wreck aren't quite so fond. I bogged my beloved Rodeo dual-cab 4WD ute to the floor tray in dry sand and spent 3/4 of an hour on my hands and knees digging it out while my wife nagged me about not letting the tyres down enough in the first place. There are normally lots of other vehicles and people on this beach to help out or snatch you out of a bog but the nearest fisherman I could see was the best part of 2km back up the beach.
My daughter (now almost 20) has great memories of this beach ... it was the first place I let her "drive". She was about 12 and she sat on my lap and steered while I did the rest. She was buzzing the whole day about it.
As I said, very nice images Mike.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Pretty cool colors. That reminds me of a similar wreck on fraser island between eurong and indian head.  |
Yep, that is the SS Maheno. Been there twice -- in 1988 in my old ex-army Series III Landrover and in the Rodeo in 2005. I've spent a total of about 10 days on Fraser never even looked like getting bogged (even at Indian Head which is notorious) and must have snatched or winched a dozen Japanese and British tourists out of trouble in rental 4WD's, but Stockton Beach was different ...
Attached is a crap happy-snap (not my camera -- I was between cameras at the time) of the Maheno in 2005
Best,
Les D