Day 58

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Judy's Trekabout

Wednesday 8th

So nice just sitting listening to nothing having breakfast. The fire truck camp in and I went and spoke with the chap, he comes and fills the water tank up, cleans out the ablution block. Real nice person. We headed off to Aramac, popped into Pentland, checked it out and headed off down the Aramac/Torrens road, very wide, red road, temperature was 40 degrees. Had a good run and not many vehicles on this road, I just love the way the landscapes change. Had morning tea under a trees, boy it was hot. I did some driving today, did 180 km into Aramac, good practice in case I need to. Here’s a few photo’s to tell the story.

Red dirt roads. Was quiet soft in places. Campasepe River bed. Train bridge in foreground. Flat country side along the way. So many extremes. Back on the dirt. Begining of the Torrens/Aramac road from Pentland. Our destination second from bottom. Pentland Hotel, could tell a story or two. Camp site at Campasepe, they had not long done a burn off. Lovely chap from Pentland doing his rounds and jobs. At Aramac it was the evening of the moon eclisps, this is my effort.

Day 56 – 57

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Judy's Trekabout

Monday 6th – Tuesday 7th

Monday was sorting, packing and stocking up for heading west.

Tuesday we headed off at 10.30 am and going to the Campasepe River camping spot. Before we headed off the tree loppers arrived and I got some shots of them doing there work. Had a good run thru, camp site is nice and roomy, shade and nice toilets etc, no showers. River was dry and they had not long done a burn off.

Star trails. Campasepe River. Tree Loppers at work at the relations place. Toilet block, rubbish bins, parking and camping. Campasepe River. Apostile birds at Charters Towers Dump point area, so hot this day. Columbia mine shaft entry. Charters Towers. Loved this, on the way today. Macrossan River and rail bridge, big camping area here. Macrossan camping. This is not far out of Charters Towers.

Day 23

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Judy's Trekabout

Wednesday 3rd

Very cold breeze this morning, up and ready to go 8.37 am. We are heading to Blue Water camp spot, its a 48 hour camping.. Fascinating trip, Ant mounds, red, black and sandy coloured ones. Saw our 1st Wedge tailed eagle on this trip and it was on a road kill with heaps of Kites. Stopped at the Harvey Range Memorial and read all about building the road, very interesting, tried to capture the info but only so much will fit on the camera screen. Got set up at Blue Water and got the generator going, caught up with a few phone calls and emails. Very cold.

Star trails again. Blue Water Camping. Had morning tea here, very nice spot. Some photos to follow soon. Burdikin River. Its a very long river, keep crossing it in all places. Little bit of the info on the building of this road.

Cattle truck passing Jack and coming toward us, he had 4 trailers.

Day 8

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Judy's Trekabout

Tuesday 19th.

It was pretty cold last night. Had breaky and got cleaned up ready to hit the road. 10 am and we are off.
We got to Calliope and stopped to get a few things and went down by the river for morning tea. J &A are staying here while we go to my friends place in Rockhampton for a night and will meet us up on the Yepoon road on Wednesday. Was great spending time with my friend, we chattered until 1 am in the morning, crikey, haven’t done that for years. Don got lots of stuff done on his computer. Bought a pair of sandals and a fleecy shirt, some wool for something to knit when the weather is not good.

Camping over the far side of the river at Calliope. This is the camping up the high side.

Morning tea view, very nice place to stay on another trip.

Day 22

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Judy's Trekabout

Saturday 22nd February

Slept well, muggy though and overcast. It’s only 7.30 am, hope we get some rain. We all packed up after breaky and headed for Bingara, Sandy was ready earlier than us so we just met up with her at Bingara. Got a few supplies and had lunch in the Roxy Cafe, it was the old Roxy Theatre, they have restored it to it’s original condition. Arrived at Bonshaw Weir at 3.30 pm, was sad to see the toilet block has gone, I was told that they had big floods last year. Got set up and while Don was putting the annex up I was steadying one of the poles and the side pool dropped and hit me across the wrist, wow, it was instant golf ball size and very sore, so iced it every 20 min intervals. Was a bit sore during the night so wasn’t the greatest of sleeps. lovely and cool and windy, such a nice change. We are camping with some stock-man and there cattle while they feed along the long paddocks. They have no feed back at their farm, they have traveled from Goondawindi and heading for Ashford. Did some star trails, sky to dark.