Beach Driving

Thanks chisel
I thought low was best and have driven on high tide up in the soft sand and yes you can see the fuel guage go down as well as the 4x4 being thrown around trying to follow in previous tyre tracks
Again thanks

That's the way I read it. Don't drive 2 hrs before or after high tide. 2 hrs after would be to give you some hard sand to drive on, if you leave right on high tide it is all soft sand. 2 hrs before high tide is just dumb and a good way to loose a vehicle

Josh

vdx1dx and Josh
The words in the mag read (when driving on the beach it is best to drive 2hrs either side of High Tide) came out of an old Camper Trailer Touring mag !
Thanks for your reply

Hi Tony

Well whomever wrote those words needs some serious lessons in the written word. It can both include the four hours period around high tide and it can also be understood to mean outside the same period.

If someone took his, or her, advice as meaning drive "during" the two hours each side of high tide, then the author could be said to be liable if the car, or worse, a life was lost.

When writing instructions one must not make anything ambiguous.

Luckily I do not drive on anything to do with salt water. Already rusted out a car that we had rust proofed. I am not going to do it again.

Phil

Thanks brushmarks,
I'm fairly new to 4x4 driving and have been getting some sand driving practice at Stockton Beach NSW and up around Port Macquarie NSW mostly on our own and during the week, so there is less trafic around (both good and bad) but we do carry a full compliment of recovery gear ie- Snatch Staps/ Rated Shackles, Long handle shovel, Maxtrak's, and a Hand Winch/ Winch Extension Strap if required.
Dont want to get stuck/washed away when the tide comes in. Most of the driving is above the High Tide mark when no other 4x4's around but do still drive on the harder sand when we can and we also stay out of the ocean not like some you see driving like a bat out of hell through the sea water just so they can spray it up every where.
Again thanks

Tonyfish & Richard W will keep that in mind when we get up that way
Thanks