Postcards from the Road - Burrum Coast, QLD

Days on the Road 20 | Traveled 1859 ks | Campgrounds 4
Temp 13°C - 26°C | Water temp 22°C
Catch of fish | Silver Bream 16 | Dusky Flathead 2 | Sand Whiting 7 | Spotted Mackerel 2 |
Mud Crabs 2 |

Burrum Coast National Park, QLD
After a five hour drive north, our first remote, off grid campsite of the road trip proved a little difficult for us to find. As the daylight faded, so did our optimism. According to our directions we had the choice of either a twenty minute unknown dirt road or a beach access entry, both requiring a high clearance 4WD. We are prepared for such, however, we (and the maps app we were following) were falling short of finding either track and we certainly didn’t want to be doing the access in the dark!

We remain super grateful to the kind local who stopped to help point us in the right direction to the beach access track. He even followed us onto the beach to make sure we didn’t get bogged in the soft sand, and reassured us the sand along the beach was ‘hard as’ and ‘we’d be sweet’. We were wishing we had his confidence and bravado. ‘Drive down the beach and look out for the picnic table on the right just past the point, the entry track will be around there’ he offered.

Completely unaware beach access is tidal, best at mid-low tide, on this occassion fortune favoured the brave and the tide was suitable. Down the beach we headed, how far we weren’t sure, ‘Oh picnic table where are you at?’ we wondered. And then moments before we lost hope, we saw the table, and the unmarked track, cautiously we navigated the soft sand entry off the beach onto the track that led to our campsite right on dusk. We were stretched, relieved, and a little rocked by what could have been.

The days that followed immersed in the simplicity only nature can offer we explored; with long beach walks, paddle boarding our way to our first catch of Mud Crab in the mangroves at Theodolite Creek, kayaking at Burrum Point to land Spotted Mackerel, enjoyed beach driving, endured cold showers, marvelled at starry skies and relished early nights. In addition to our local catch of seafood, we bought a bag of cooked Endeavour prawns from the seafood trailer in town and spent four days at our campsite eating like kings!

Crumbed fish sandwiches, Crab cooked in seawater, sweet, salty Endeavour prawns & Spotted Mackerel pan fried in butter, with an eschallot, cherry tomato, Kalamata olive and basil salsa.

Simply brilliant!

We camped at Burrum Point Camping area in the Burrum Coast National Park on the Bundaberg | Fraser Coast & the Seafood Trailer is located out the front of the Woodgate Bakery.