Weather Forecasters

Sunday 30 August… According to the local weather forecast today there was supposed to be a cold front coming through with some showers on it, but just like the forecasters in the U K they got it wrong. We decided it would be a good day to go sightseeing locally so packed up this morning and drove out to Inskip Point which is at the end of the peninsula we are on. It is from here that barges go to Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world, and from what we have read a place we should have visited. We will have to be content with just reading about it. Fraser Island is about a 10 min journey by barge and we watched them shuttle the 4WD vehicles across as we walked around the sandy headland of Inskip. Apparently you must have a 4WD on the island as it has no proper roads, just sandy tracks. Inskip is a beautiful place which allows people to camp in parts of the bush just a few metres away from the shoreline, not surprisingly it looked very crowded. We had a couple of nice sightings of a pair of Rainbow bee-eaters beautiful colour as their name suggests and also a pair of Beach Stone Curlews. We had a nice walk in blazing sunshine( no sign of the cold front) Then we drove round to the very quiet Carlo Bay which is on an estuary with more mudflats and mangroves than sand. There we saw a Jabiru poking about in the mud which was a bit of a surprise as we have only seen them up in Northern Territory. We then revisited Sealy’s Creek, thinking that as it was Sunday ,there wouldn’t be anyone working on the boardwalk as before. They weren’t working but there wasn’t a great deal more to see than we saw a few days ago. As it was still hot we thought we would catch an hour or so back at Rainbow Beach in the sea. That’s when the cold front came through. It consisted of some heavy cloud and lasted for about 1 hour before it disappeared to leave us with lovely blue skies again. ---------May the weathermen continue to get it wrong!