By Margaret Maccoll
Car surfing on Teewah Beach wasn’t what boaties expected to see when they headed out on Sunday morning but that was the view that confronted Bill Watson of fishingnoosa.com.au when he snapped this shot about 6am.
“I assume one got stuck and the other tried to pull it out,“ Bill said, and he was right on the money as Mike Clayton of Clayton’s Towing confirmed after the company towed out and removed both vehicles when the tide went out later in the day.
“Two men were doing some fishing late at night,“ Mike said. “One car got bogged and couldn’t get out. The other came in to help and got bogged. You can’t beat the tide. There’s not much you can do.“
Mike said Clayton’s Towing received a call from the men after midnight but with the car ferry shut there was nothing they could do to help.
He said the men hadn’t been hooning. They just made a mistake parking below the high tide mark.
Unfortunately they didn’t know anyone on north shore to call on for help and were forced to stay on the beach through the night until help arrived.
“Both cars are a write-off,“ Mike said.
“They only went out in one tide. They didn’t float out. They pretty much stuck where they stayed. We just winched them out with our 4WD tow truck. It’s not the first time Clayton’s Towing have been called on to winch out a car bogged on north, but it was a bit unusual to get two,” Mike said.
Noosa Police said they would not be investigating the incident which was neither an accident nor was there any resulting injury.
“It’s just something that happened,“ acting senior sergeant Troy Cavell said.
