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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: GeeQue on June 26, 2011, 07:34:44 PM
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Taken from an Online News source...
Video link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBj9pWu8x_E
CAMPERS are watching in awe as a giant sinkhole swallows a popular stretch of beach at Inskip Point, near Rainbow Beach north of Tin Can Bay.
A 100m-wide stretch of beach has been sucked into the ocean since 10.30am, and trees were this afternoon being pulled under.
Visitor Rhonda Harris said it was a "phenomenon".
"When we first came up about 11am the water was actually bubbling like it was boiling," she said.
"We saw the 'no camping' sign get washed out."
Camper Shane Hillhouse said four-wheel-drives had been travelling along the popular stretch of sand, near Inskip Peninsula, shortly before the hole appeared.
"This has the potential to take the tip of Inskip Point with it this is huge and on a scale I've never seen before," he said.
No one is believed to have been injured.
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Gympie police duty officer Sergeant Vic Tipman said sink holes, which swallowed portions of beach as big as houses, were common at Inskip.
"You've got to be careful driving up there," he said.
"It would be hundreds of metres wide. Big areas get washed out.
"What's going to happen one day is Inskip Point is not going to be there any more."
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GeeQue
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Holy crap.. Did it stop?
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Wow. Mother nature certainly shows us her bad temper at times.
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Yeah crazy. I'm a real tread-lightly type of driver. Just goes to show, an infinite number of trailers could never create this sort of change.
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GeeQue
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saw it on the News tonight i wonder if any tourists were sun baking at the time
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Goodness.
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LOL
There is a link to moving pictures at the top.
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GeeQue
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code brown.
that article says they are common there ??? ??? ???
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I just saw this on a news break, there was abloke in a conoe checking it out. When I think of a sink I think of a drain plug, hope he doesn't end up in China!
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We were up there last weekend and had commented on how all the sand had built up in the corner again enabling you to drive from Rainbow to the barges. Not any more. Just as well you cannot camp along that stretch.
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OMG! That is getting eaten away so quickly!
Does anyone know what causes Sinkholes?
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Is there another way around it or did those people on the other have to be rescued?
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throw a live bait in there :D
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That cuold make a mess of your plans couldnt it . Make the drive home a whole bunch more interesting :cheers:
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That cuold make a mess of your plans couldnt it . Make the drive home a whole bunch more interesting :cheers:
yea explain that one to the boss...
Im hoping the Volcano takes off again by Friday so Im stuck in Shitney for weekend :)
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Your not alone there 8)
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Is there another way around it or did those people on the other have to be rescued?
from what i can work out of the video footage i've seen, that hole is on the Eastern beach side just before the barge landing point at Inskip (happy to be proven wrong though?).
you don't need to drive up the beach there to get to the barges, about 200 mtrs inland is the main track at the end of the bitumin rd you'd normally drive on to get access to the Fraser Island barges. the section that has disappeared looks to me like the area you sometimes couldn't drive around at hightide due to fallen trees etc blocking the way.
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Have seen it happen on the northern tip of Bribie and at Happy Valley. Give it a couple of days to settle grab a rod and go for it.
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from what i can work out of the video footage i've seen, that hole is on the Eastern beach side just before the barge landing point at Inskip (happy to be proven wrong though?).
you don't need to drive up the beach there to get to the barges, about 200 mtrs inland is the main track at the end of the bitumin rd you'd normally drive on to get access to the Fraser Island barges. the section that has disappeared looks to me like the area you sometimes couldn't drive around at hightide due to fallen trees etc blocking the way.
Thanks Rumpig,
have never driven there, so certainly didn't expect bitumen roads over there :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Mike
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Thanks Rumpig,
have never driven there, so certainly didn't expect bitumen roads over there :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Mike
hi Mike,
Inskip Point where this happened is still on the mainland. basically to get to Fraser Island from the South, you drive to Rainbow Village which is the last township to get any supplies from, then drive down the bitumin Rd about another 10 minutes to get to Inskip Point, which is a headland where you then drive out onto the beach to catch the barge across to the island. Inskip Point area is basically one big camping area accessed by bitumin with the beach on it's Eastern side, and towards the barge landing area at the point it also has the water of Tin Can Bay on it's Western side.
i guess there is the real possibilty that the road could disappear one day, but for the moment looking at news footage on the telly, just a section of the Eastern beach has collapsed in on itself. in relative scale of Inskip camping area beach frontage, it's not a large area of beach that's been effected.
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Thanks Rumpig,
Silly me I tho't it was on Frazer Island :-[ :-[ :-[
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Its the exact same spot where The Gall Boys' caravan sunk in quicksand in 2006 on their DVD "Making the most of the Fraser Coast". It's always been soft along that section:
(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp300/jeeps_photo/Other%20Vehicles/Quicksand20at20Inskip20Point.jpg)
cheers
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I just checked up how Insinks are caused. This one is likely to be from sandstone dissolving under neath the beach. This could be due to underground rivers collapsing or just something that happens over time.
I hope no poor soul was driving on there when it first started to go! I don't thibk it would be a nice way to 'go'
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Tam
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jeeps - that would have been an interesting extraction - looks like it is similar territory
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Last nights news had footage from there chopper and think ‘real news’ must be slow at the moment. From what I previously read I was under the impression this so called ‘sink hole’ was eating the beach where the barges leave from.
But after seeing it on the news last night this hole has been coming and going for as long as I have been visiting Inskip Point. I’ve fished this hole many times and I’ve seen the beach change from current situation of being un-passable due to the water lapping the tree line to being 100m wide with sand in a couple of months. Then the process starts all over again.
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jeeps - that would have been an interesting extraction - looks like it is similar territory
You'll have to get the Gall Boys DVD's. They're excellent viewing, well worth the price. That quicksand bogging was the least of their worries on this Fraser Island trip ;)
cheers
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Any updates on this?
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Sink Holes are happening all over the world, US, China, etc. The US had one this year which swallowed up a whole carpark, (Volcanoes, Earth Quakes, Floods) it's all happening somethings going on.
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Sink Holes are happening all over the world, US, China, etc. The US had one this year which swallowed up a whole carpark, (Volcanoes, Earth Quakes, Floods) it's all happening somethings going on.
The only thing that's going on is that there are more cameras around these days to capture what nature has always done ;)
cheers
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Was there 2 days ago & yep, it looks like the beach has disappeared....but with wave action etc. It will probably come back again! !!
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Sink Holes are happening all over the world, US, China, etc. The US had one this year which swallowed up a whole carpark, (Volcanoes, Earth Quakes, Floods) it's all happening somethings going on.
The government is responsible.
You can see all that sand has re-appeared in a Nevada desert.
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Another part of Inskip collapsed into the strait today. I just watched the footage on the news. Will post some video if I find it online.
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Sink hole inskip point 13th aug 2013 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FfhLpWNx_s#ws)
WOW right where you get on the barge too, was only there two weeks ago ..
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Jeeez!
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This is from the local fish and chips wrapping.
HALF the sand tip of Inskip Pt washed away Tuesday morning right in front of disbelieving fisherman.
Mother Nature flexed her muscles around 10am when the first section of the sand fell into the sea.
By noon the sand mass extending into the Great Sandy Strait had reduced in size by half.
Manta Ray barge driver Phillip Berrill said every time they came back to drop off 4WDs from Fraser Island there was less and less sand to land on at the point.
"It's (the ocean) broken through over the back over here and it has changed the point completely," Mr Berrill said.
Locals were blaming westerly winds that battered the point Monday night and early Tuesday morning for the wash-out.
It is usual for the sand mass at Inskip Pt to wash away and build up in differing weather conditions but this was the most significant event since a so-called "sink hole" in June, 2011.
That erosion was on the eastern side of the point about 700m from Tuesday's wash-out.
It started as a small hole on the beach and soon grew to 30m in diameter, before growing large enough to swallow a rugby league field, with one estimate putting its size at 200m across.
The current erosion event, while significant, isn't a cause for alarm and is expected to be replaced by more sand over time
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This is from the local fish and chips wrapping.
HALF the sand tip of Inskip Pt washed away Tuesday morning right in front of disbelieving fisherman.
Mother Nature flexed her muscles around 10am when the first section of the sand fell into the sea.
By noon the sand mass extending into the Great Sandy Strait had reduced in size by half.
Manta Ray barge driver Phillip Berrill said every time they came back to drop off 4WDs from Fraser Island there was less and less sand to land on at the point.
"It's (the ocean) broken through over the back over here and it has changed the point completely," Mr Berrill said.
Locals were blaming westerly winds that battered the point Monday night and early Tuesday morning for the wash-out.
It is usual for the sand mass at Inskip Pt to wash away and build up in differing weather conditions but this was the most significant event since a so-called "sink hole" in June, 2011.
That erosion was on the eastern side of the point about 700m from Tuesday's wash-out.
It started as a small hole on the beach and soon grew to 30m in diameter, before growing large enough to swallow a rugby league field, with one estimate putting its size at 200m across.
The current erosion event, while significant, isn't a cause for alarm and is expected to be replaced by more sand over time
Was just about to comment that we hadn't heard from you JC, I'd thought you might've disappeared!
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We went past there on Sunday in the boat, but i'm sure my wash wasn't that bad.
If i get time, i might slip over there on saturday and have a gander.
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Bugger ya JC stop bogging ya jeep on the bloody thing or there wont be anything left for us to drive on next year ..LOL.
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I'll be there tomorrow morning. Heading to Sandy Cape for the weekend
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Going by how the beach on Fraser was building a couple of weeks ago you should almost be able to run the beach past yidney and poyungan at half tide by now ...
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Yeah DI is the same. Wide low and flat from about half tide. Still plenty of water on high.........great gutters on the Northshore atm.
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Thanks for the tip, we'll be about half an hour behind the main group but bound to catch them at Indian Head when they are bellied out in the sand LOL
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I'll be there tomorrow morning. Heading to Sandy Cape for the weekend
I'm heading up towards the end of the month, I would appreciate it if you could provide an update on the beach condition once you're back?