The time has come to leave this fantastic island, low tide was at 12 noon, so we had plenty of time to drive the 100 kms back to the ferry. The difference low tide makes is amazing. You can cruise along the beach around 70kms/hr and pull a trailer with little effort. This time we stayed on the beach all the way around Hook Pt to the ferry and arrived there around 12:00 pm. Jacky was quite taken with the fact that 75 mile beach has speed limit signs and more signs to let you know that the speed restrictions are enforced, though we did not see on radar in our time on the island.

40 km/hr, Fraser Island

The first stop was the under body car wash, after 7 days of driving up and down the beach I needed to ensure all salt residues were washed away. I haven’t seen a car wash like this in WA, you park on top of a steel grid and jets spray high pressure water on the underbody then add a rust inhibitor. Our next camp was at Freshwater just off Teewah beach about 20 kms from Rainbow Beach. Another beautiful campsite with flushing toilets and hot ($1/5min) showers and we had the place nearly to ourselves except all afternoon there was a steady stream of traffic coming in to use the showers. As we found out the next day nearly every spot in the beach camping area was full.