Mother Nature is reclaiming her land piece by piece, or so it appears after she swallowed more than 200 metres of beachfront in Queensland on Sunday.
Fortunately, no one was harmed in the freak event, but a car, caravan, camper trailer and tents have all been lost to the abyss.
The sinkhole, located at Inskip Point near Fraser Island in Queensland, is said to be three-metres deep and still unstable. At least 300 people have been evacuated from the area.
A further 160 campers have been evacuated from #InskipPoint as a precaution, bringing total to 300. @7NewsQueensland pic.twitter.com/PmmC57zGG8
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The site is a popular tourist destination and witnesses have recounted the moment the land opened up and swallowed everything whole. “It sounded like a thunder noise,” tourist Casey Hughes told ABC News. “People were basically on the edge of it with their van, trying to madly get their vans out,” camper Sylvia Murray said.