Day eight – a jump up the coast to miss 50kms of washing machine.

With 25 to 30 knot winds and 3 metre oceans forecast for the next five days we were faced with a tough choice, 1/- paddle and risk having to be rescued if we got into trouble, 2/ – sit in a caravan park in Noosa for five days, 3/- jump in a car and drive  the 50 kilometres of dangerous coast up to Inskip so we could continue paddling north on the inside of Frazer Island. Despite being somewhat crazy we quickly eliminated option 1. Noosa is a beautiful place but having only been going 7 days we did not want to lose a weeks paddling for the sake of 50 kilometres of open beach, so we eliminated option 2. So option 3 it was, and being so close to home our lovely family came and picked us up and transported us to safe water so we can continue north. This of course will not be an option further into out trip. Tomorrow the tracker will be back on – we are entering Dingo country behind Frazer Island … Will post from Fraser Island tomorrow if we are in reception. DT