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Day 18

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Friday 29th

Well the winds got up about 3.30 am, by 6.30 am clouds were coming in over the range so worked in nicely that we were planing to move on today. Filled up with water, beautiful drinking water they provide here. We are heading to Elphinestone via the Nebo Rd, or Little Lizzy Rd, what wonderful country side, dry but still so much to see, along the way Jack saw Moonlight Dam Camping sign and radioed to us as to would we like to have morning tea here, of course we would, so off we go, OMG I wondered if we’d ever get there, but when we did it is lovely. very rough 4×4 drive, along a ridge and windy.

IMG_2753  Lake Elphinestone, We camped here for two nights.IMG_2731  Here is a drag line bucket at the entrance of the town Glendon.IMG_2714  Amazing landscape along the way today.IMG_2704  All these Brolgas in the paddock, what a noise they were making, they were a long way away.IMG_2694  Going along the ridge into Moonlight Dam Camping.IMG_2671  Old trough, was once filled by the windmill in background.IMG_2668  Heaps of room for camping.StarStaX_DPP_345-DPP_361_gap_filling  Did star trails at Lake Elphinestone.IMG_2661  Moonlight Dam Camping area, the Dam was only a puddle but large area when there is water.IMG_2653  Little Lizzy Road, heading to Nebo.IMG_2648  Going through a narrow part of Little Lizzy Road.IMG_2642  The animals weren’t as thin as I expected.IMG_2639  Love this shot, the way the road winds, Jack is the wee white dot at the end of the road.IMG_2635 IMG_2632 IMG_2628

Country side where we traveled today.

 

Day 17

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Thursday 28th 

This is our last nigh here, have really enjoyed it here. Cold winds today, was quiet windy yesterday as well. The men went out in the boats, Don got his crab pots in, nothing in them. Waters are to cold for crabs etc. Did a wash and got all dry, ready for the next move. Did tea in camp oven, very nice, sausages and roast veggies. Put some spuds in tin foil and into the coals, perfect. Sky very dark tonight, new moon, so I wont be doing star trails. Everything is packed up and ready for tomorrow, we are heading to Lake Elphinestone.

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Don eating a piece of damper cooked in the camp oven, bit burnt, but with jam and cream, who cares.

Day 16

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Wednesday 27

Water was so still, Jack went out for a early row. We sat around and had breakfast chatting. So peaceful. Don did some fishing, kookaburra sitting on the branch above hoping to catch something every time Don reeled in. But nothing was caught. We had 2 ring tailed opossums here last night, one was red furred, very pretty. Baby butchers, 3 baby kookaburras. We have no coverage out here so J & A shot back into Eungella to do some business. Warmed up my water for a nice hot shower. Went for a drive over to the Dam wall. Lovely picnic area for day use. There are kites flying all around us. Went for a ride in the rubber duck to the other side of dam was lovely.

StarStaX_DPP_333-DPP_340_gap_filling_CometMode  Star trails.IMG_2580  Eungella Dam wall.IMG_2579  Spillway.IMG_2510 IMG_2484 IMG_2456  Very foggy this morning.IMG_2446 IMG_2445 IMG_2444  Wonderful clean facilities.IMG_2442  One can camp anywhere here, very big area, it is paddock camping so you find what you can as far as level sites.IMG_2437  our set up.IMG_2435  More fog.IMG_2432

Earlier we could not see the other campers, so foggy.

Day 15

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Tuesday 26th

Lovely fine morning and cool. Had breakfast in the sun and cleaned up. On the way by 9 am. Had a lovely drive thru to Eungella, its only 4km from the bottom of the hill to the top but boy its very steep. Had morning tea at the lookout.  The landscape is lovely with all the sugar cane farms, hills and sugar cane trains. The Eungella Dam is not part of the NP so we are heading out there and see the ranger when we get there. It’s 49 km from the top of the range to the Dam, 11 km of dirt roads but good. This is beautiful and huge, we will be coming back to to this camping spot. We share with the cows, horses and bird life, pretty good I say. Plenty tree’s for shade,  toilet block is great and a cold shower room, so we used our warm shower containers and had good showers. Rubbish bins and all this for $ 8 per couple per night. One pot dinner tonight, curry mince and cabbage.  Saw 3 satellites tonight and did star trails.IMG_2374  Lovely and sandy around the edge of the banks in places.IMG_2375  Lovely quiet spot for our camping. We were facing south perfect for star trails. 🙂IMG_2381  Dam wall.IMG_2401Evening light on the hills.

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Day 14

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Monday 25th

Up and away by 9.15 am. Went thru to Sarina and had morning tea at the train station. Then onto Mackay. Stopped at Caneland Central,  did some shopping. The drive and country side was real nice to here, lots of rugged hills and cane farms.  We got away from Mackay about 2.15 pm and headed towards Eungella,  pulled into a rest stop at Plummer River and ate lunch. Had chicken and salad, Got to Boulder Creek at 4 pm, long way out of the way for what there is,  but one never knows until you do it. At least the turn off to Eungella is only 1 km back, good short cut. Not a very big area,  nice wee creek running. We are only staying the one night seeing as its not fantastic.

IMG_2358  Entrance to Boulder Creek camping on left.IMG_2339  Boulder Creek.IMG_2337 IMG_2332 IMG_2330BoulderCreek
 This is the only area to camp in here, not big.

Day 13

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Sunday 24th

Nice weather,  very windy and cool. Had breakfast then headed off down to the bridge to get the incoming tide as it comes in so very fast. Well that was a joke, the tide was on the ebb,  all we got was cold bums. Got back to camp and had morning tea. After we warmed up we headed off to town to catch Sunlander train coming in, but it was 11.40 pm, so we were 12 hours to early. It’s been one of those days, but not in a bad way. Now it’s started raining.  I headed back to camp and when I got there I could here the Brolgas and Curlews calling. We got all packed up as much as we could for the morning. Filled all the water containers etc. One last hot shower as never sure where we’ll end up.

IMG_2325  Don and Jack doing macro on a praying mantus. Couldn’t resist this shot.IMG_2314  Jack walking back from the wetlands.IMG_2312  wet land. Loved the colours in the mud and the posts all ruined.IMG_2293  Train bridge, apparently when the tide comes in it rushes through this gap very fast and is a great sight to see. Another time.IMG_2292  Looking out across the tidal inlet.IMG_2287  Wetlands, lots of migrating birds at times of the year.IMG_2274  Animal holding pens.IMG_2273  Our set up.IMG_2268Mono
 Early morning from the rodeo seats.Did a black and white image out of it.

Day 12

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Saturday 23rd.

Was not cold last night but coolish this morning. Going to be a fine day and has a good breeze, do the washing, Don put up a line, so good. Went and posted some mail to NZ. Went all around the settlement lovely we place. Came across a chap who gave us a photo of the building he saw me taking photos of, got chatting, what a beautiful garden he has,  only flowers in St Lawrence,  cut a bunch for me to take back to camp. Lots of crocodiles here down in the mangroves by boat ramp, but we haven’t seen any and don’t need to. It’s a relax day today.

IMG_2201  Old bridge supports.IMG_2195  Only and best flower garden in St Lawrance.IMG_2183 IMG_2175  Driving back from boat ramp and a the wattles are in flower.IMG_2168 IMG_2163 Main St of St Lawrence, this is the post office and far building the court house.

Day 11

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Friday 22nd

Met up with our friends J & A at St Lawrence.  We stopped for lunch/smoko at Marlborough. We over shot the turn off for here and ended up at Clearview.  What a lovely spot, very expensive.  By the time we turned around and drove back 25 minutes J & A were just behind us. Found a nice flat spot, got set up and went for a hot shower, wonderful amenities here. Bed pretty early, we were all tired for some reason. Nice and warm.
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 Looking back at camp from the wetlands.IMG_2142LawranceCampingFromWetlands And with the wetlands in this one.

Day 10

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Thursday 21st
I slept well. Had breakfast, cleaned up and then went a walk.  Don and Jack are out canoeing. It is starting to rain. Using the generator  today no more sun by the looks. Saw the blue winged kookaburra this morning, very pretty. Does not laugh like the other one. When the rain eased up we went for a walk down to the Weir,  We all had tea and got settled into bed, be about 8.30 pm, Alice comes over asking for some tweezers,  Jack has a tick on his neck behind the ear. That was ok, then about 1/2 hour later Alice comes over to say Jack has had a reaction, lips swelling, rash and itching like mad, so off they went to Yipoon to hospital. Jack is ok, got a Tetanus jab and anti-histamine, slept it all off.
DSCF2971  Lovely big areas for campers to eat or entertain in.DSCF2961  Day area.DSCF2970  Toilet block, unisex, 4 and 1 wheelchair access toilet. Beautifully laid out.DSCF2955
  Was a very wet night but camper will dry out.