This summer has been the hottest in the 5 years we have been in Qld. and we are looking forward to the nice sunny winter. Chris and I, along with some friends, flew up to Fraser Island and landed at Orchard Beach, spending a long weekend cruising the famous beaches and sand tracks on the northern end of the island. The tail end of a monsoon made it difficult to fly off the island, and we got as far as Hervey Bay, then Maryborough before we hired a car to drive home, retuning a week later to pick the aircraft up.