Contact Pete

How to Reach Me

The best way to get in touch is by email at pete@frasercoastadventures.com. There is no contact form, no chatbot, no ticket system, and no auto-responder. Your message lands in my inbox, and I read it myself, usually with a coffee, usually at the kitchen table in Hervey Bay before I head out for the day.

I am not a large operation. I am one person. I run this site, answer the email, drive on the island, walk the beach at Urangan most mornings, and volunteer one weekend a month with the local dingo monitoring group. There is no team behind the address. When you write to me, you are writing to me.

What to Expect When You Write

I read every message that comes in. I reply to every one. I do not use a template, and I do not delegate the replies. If you ask me a question about tyre pressures, tide times, or which whale watching operator to pick, you will get my actual answer, in my actual words, with my actual opinion.

Replies usually take 2 to 3 days. Sometimes faster if I am at a desk with a working internet connection. Sometimes slower if I am on the island, because the mobile signal inland is patchy and I am often out of range for the better part of a day. If you do not hear back within a week, it is not because I ignored you. It is because your message landed in spam, or my reply landed in yours. Send a second email and I will find it.

Best Time to Write

If you are planning a trip to Hervey Bay or Fraser Island and you want conditions advice, write to me about a week out from your trip. That gives me time to check the tide chart, the wind forecast, the track closures on the Queensland Parks website, and the latest reports from the other guides on the island. I will tell you what the sand is doing, what the whales are doing, and whether you should book the guided tour or take your chances self-driving.

I will not tell you what you want to hear. I will tell you what I would do if I were the one packing the car. If the conditions are bad, I will say so. If a tour operator has a history of cutting corners on safety briefings, I will say so. If the hire car you have booked does not cover beach driving, I will say so. That is the deal. You ask me a question, you get the truth I would give a mate.

What I Can and Cannot Help With

I can help with questions about Fraser Island and K'gari, the barge at River Heads, the inland tracks, the beach highway, Lake McKenzie, Eli Creek, the Maheno shipwreck, whale watching in Hervey Bay, and the local accommodation and operators I have used over the last decade. I can tell you which 4WD tour I would book if it were my family on the bus. I can read your hire-car insurance clause and tell you whether the beach is actually covered.

I cannot help with bookings, refunds, or changes to existing reservations. Those go through the operator or the platform you booked with. Viator handles their own customer service, as do the hotel chains and the hire-car companies. I am not affiliated with any of them beyond the Viator partner link on this site, and I do not have access to their systems.

I also cannot offer personalised medical, legal, or dingo-management advice, although if a dingo has taken your sandwich at Lake McKenzie, I can at least sympathise, because it has happened to me twice and it is annoying every time.

Other Ways to Find Me

There is no phone number on this site. There is no office address. There is no social media team. I am not on most of the platforms, because I would rather drive on the sand than argue with strangers on the internet. If you see Fraser Coast Adventures on a social network, it is probably someone else using the name. The real one is this site, this email, and me.

If you are in Hervey Bay and you want to say hello in person, the most reliable place to find me is the Urangan boat ramp at sunrise. I walk the beach there most mornings with the camera. If you see a bloke in a wide-brimmed hat photographing a dingo at a safe distance, that is probably me. I will wave. I might even stop and talk. Bring your own questions.