The Real Fraser Island - Roothy

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Here's some footage from a Fraser Island trip we made back in the days courtesy of my old boss who's the bloke behind those super popular Supa Centa stores all over the country. I took my Big Red truck, the Chev V8 powered Toyota 47 Series we eventually auctioned off to raise money for the endless track closures battle. Check out the 'step side' tray I made from cut down off-road trailer panels - maybe not the most practical for everybody but it sure suited solo 4wd work.
There's some awesome stuff here and that's because of all my mates who helped out but specifically thanks to the efforts of producer Adam 'Bushman' Boyle, one of the world's best videographers, and Allen Coy, who went on to work with Simon and Jason up north.
My own relationship with Fraser kicked off forty seven years ago when I was working for a water drilling company. One day I’m out in a paddock with the divining wires looking to tap the basin, the next I’m in the office being told to pack a bag and head north. The boss had landed a contract with a mob called Queensland Titanium Mines.
That was around 1973. Tony was a lot older than me and fresh out of the army where he’d spent most of his time blowing up tunnels in Vietnam. He’d seen a lot of bad stuff although his biggest hang-up was coming home and copping abuse from anti-war crowd. I’ve never liked ‘do-gooders’ much since then. Watching Tony – a man who’d fought for his country regardless of whether it was right or wrong - take out his frustrations on a bottle turned me off do-gooders for life. You need to know that now because when it comes to Fraser Island, the city bound greenie do-gooders are always going to cop a bashing from me!
All these thoughts were going through my head as I fiddled with the bonnet clips on Big Red. It was ‘check the new radiator’ time again. The Chevy motor was constantly running hot even with two electric fans sucking through the standard Tojo fins so I’d plucked it and fitted a huge aluminium radiator with a cut down plastic mechanical fan. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt it’s to constantly check the last thing I’ve fixed because that’s where the problems usually surface. Professional mechanics don’t have this problem. First thing I noticed was that the fan had flexed – probably from pulling 110 plus up the motorway from Brisbane – and the blades looked like Jack the Dog had chewed the tips off. Hmm, not a great thing to find when you’re ten metres off a week of soft sand driving!
Shortly after that a V8 79 Series tray back with a covered roof and side flaps and a load of beach rods came plonking around the corner. Nugget and Wazza were here, and in no rush either. I mentioned the ‘running late’ thing but Wazza just pointed at the tide and said ‘no point’.
Time out for another aside. Despite over three decades of Fraser trips, in my ‘city mode’ I’d forgotten to check the tide times! D’oh, and with some huge King tides rolling through that week, the beach would have been impassable a couple of hours either side of high for sure. Remembering to check the tide times before you organise a Fraser trip is just one more way of remembering that Mother Nature rules here, not men.
Music Credited to
- MIDD Day At The Park -Dewey Dellay,
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