Mundubbera to St Lawerence

Mundubbera to St Lawerence

                                                                     

 

We travelled from Goondiwindi to Dalby, and headed towards Mundubbera on back roads getting away from the road trains. About 100 kms from our destination we got a flat tyre on the caravan just on dusk. A truck driver pulled over and informed us that there was a garage only 500 metres from where we were. He kindly called through and within 5 minutes there was a gentleman named Dave, who turned up offering to change it for us. Thanks to Dave it only took him a short time and we were back on the road.

 

                                                                        

Finally made it to Black Stump rest area for the night. (Camp 6 No 461 Qld a great rest area for the night)

                                                                      

 

 

 

At 7.30am it was time to find a garage to get 2 new tyres. Dudley Pott from Mundubbera Tyre Services came to our rescue. A good price John said $170.00 each. They put one tyre back on the rim . Great service. Would recommend them to anyone.

We had a phone call from Glen (John's Brother) asking us if we could please go and have a look at a silage wrapper and grabber for a farm at Monto. A beautiful drive out to the farm where we were informed that the river that passes through the farm was the main water supply for Bundaberg. The recent major floods they had in Bundaberg also flooded here and covered many paddocks . The depth in some areas was over 10 meters. Many large trees were pushed over with the force of the water. These trees we as high as 20 meters in places. In the trees that were left standing you could see rubbish in the branches from the floods. From there we travelled through Biloela to Rocky.

A wonderful evening was had at friends of Johns from Malanda who moved to The Caves north of Rockhampton. A great catch up for John. It was nice to finally met Kaye and John after hearing so much about them.

We left The Caves and made our way to St Lawrence after lunch to met up with Ann and Keith Nicholson . We stayed at a wonderful camping area free of course. Camp 6 Book No 89 in Qld section . There was a donation box for the camp and for a hot shower $1.00 for 3 minutes. Time fishing and relaxing after all the driving John has been doing.

 

                                                            

St Lawrence reserve by the freedom camp

                                                                              

 

 

John and Keith resting at the half way point