Inskip sinkhole

[GeeQue]

Taken from an Online News source...
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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."


GeeQue

[Silvo]

Holy crap.. Did it stop?

[singo-26]

Wow. Mother nature certainly shows us her bad temper at times.

[GeeQue]

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.


GeeQue

[Old Croc + plus one]

saw it on the News tonight i wonder if any tourists were sun baking at the time

[BigJules]

Goodness.

[D4D]

 

[GeeQue]

LOL

There is a link to moving pictures at the top.


GeeQue

[Bird]

code brown.

that article says they are common there 

[GU Rich]

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!

[Chris-Vi]

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.

[cossonfamily]

OMG! That is getting eaten away so quickly!
Does anyone know what causes Sinkholes?

[Manjimike]

Is there another way around it or did those people on the other have to be rescued?

[bigred]

throw a live bait in there

[speewa158]

That cuold make a mess of your plans couldnt it . Make the drive home a whole bunch more interesting 

[Bird]

That cuold make a mess of your plans couldnt it . Make the drive home a whole bunch more interesting 

yea explain that one to the boss...
Im hoping the Volcano takes off again by Friday so Im stuck in Shitney for weekend

[speewa158]

Your not alone there 

[Rumpig]

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.

[Nomad]

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.

[Manjimike]

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 


Mike

[Rumpig]

Thanks Rumpig,
have never driven there, so certainly didn't expect bitumen roads over there 


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.

[Manjimike]

Thanks Rumpig,
Silly me I tho't it was on Frazer Island 

[jeeps]

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:




cheers

[cossonfamily]

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'


Tam

[bigred]

jeeps - that would have been an interesting extraction - looks like it is similar territory