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
