Maheno Wreck, feature of the eastern beach of Fraser Island since 1935. Forever looks in a state of terminally advanced decay, but was there before I was born and will be much the same long after I’m gone.

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, slightly smaller now because a substantial portion of sand is now in the back of my car. World Heritage site and rightly so.

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Flinders Beach, North Stradbroke Island. Mature grove of sheoaks provide shade behind the dunes. Tidal lagoon through the trees.

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Campsite behind the dunes at Flinders Beach, North Stradbroke Island. Dogs permitted.

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She’s in there somewhere... slightly to the right of midline with a bit of double tap/ zoom

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Steamer
Hospital ship
Not by war but weather
Felled, yet above the waves remains
Endures

SS Maheno broke a tow-cable in a typhoon in 1935 and landed on the 75 mile eastern beach of Fraser Island, unable to be refloated. She was the worlds first triple-screw steamer, converted to a hospital ship in WWI, transporting wounded from ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli.

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