Due to no internet or phone connection , todays blog is actually Tuesdays !!
After having our two free nights at Murgon , we packed up and headed further up the road . We were headed to Monto , or Cania Gorge , or Biloela , or somewhere !!
There were two ways to get to Gayndah , so we took the longer one ( only about 10 klms ) through Goomeri , a decision we were not overly happy with after driving that section . With the RV on the back you can certainly tell when the road is less than smooth !!! , but we cant complain too much as we dont know what the other roads condition was to compare it with .
After Goomeri , the road led us into a valley , with a huge flat area stretching off to the high hills surrounding it - some of which were the Seven Sisters . We stopped for a loo break at Ban Ban Springs .
We bounced and lurched our way to Gayndah , apart from the road condition , it was an easy drive as we descended from the mountains to lower ground and followed the valleys of the Burnett River.
The vegetation was changing as we went along , the plentiful grass was still , there but instead of being one & a half metres tall , it was only half a metre tall , the trees were getting spread apart and there was more grazing land . Citrus orchards were starting to become more frequent . Stopping at The Big Orange in Gayndah , we purchased some navel oranges . The bag had 15 in it and was supposed to weigh three kilos - it was closer to 5kg - for $7 . It was time for an ice cream , so we headed outside to finish it before driving off again . The lady shop owner came out and chatted about holidays and destinations for about 15 mins , people we meet are more than happy to share their lives with us , mostly without any prompting from us !! Driving into Gayndah’s main street , we turned into a side street and stopped for a while to check emails and upload the blog . Here we were , sitting on a blue tarp in the shade of a tree , on the side of the Burnett River , beside a church !! - NO , it didn’t fall over , nor were there any lightning strikes !!!!
On the road again to Mundubbera for lunch - it was only 57klms and we were there before we knew it . Finding a park beside ( you guessed it ) the Burnett River , we stopped near a steam engine that had covered 1.58 million kilometres - yes 1.58 million !!! - that’s a lot of train trips !!!!!
Further up the very wide river bed was the Jones Weir , with plenty of water backed up - they waterski there . There was also a set of exercise machines beside the pathway which follows the river along , so we tried several , good for a bit of a giggle !!
Mundubbera has a lot of citrus growing as well , and the population usually expands greatly at this time of year as the pickers arrive . Three rivers join here - The Burnett , Boyne and Auburn Rivers and make the Burnett River larger as it winds it’s way to Bundaberg and out to sea . There is evidence of previous floods - not so long ago - well above the current level . In fact there are flood markers going up to 18 m - that’s a serious amount of water . Some of the road that we have driven over today has been covered by over 3m of flood water at some stage , given the amount of debris still up in the trees.
We decided that Eidsvold would be our destination today , there is a caravan park there ( the only one ) that only charges $26 a night for a powered site , it’s beside the 9 hole golf course and close to the RM Williams Australian Bush Learning Centre that we’ll check out tomorrow . We checked in and met Brian ( the caretaker ) who immediately fell in love with our Ute and RV - he was very impressed !!! We decided we would stay for 2 nights , and went and set up . We needed to get a pineapple & some other things so headed up the street and found the IGA supermarket - the only one in town !! Eidsvold doesn’t appear to have a lot of shops , but has a large cattle sale yard , a timber mill , showground & race course and a lot of houses . One of theses houses happened to have a small plane sitting in the back yard - don’t we all need one !!!!
All in all today was a really good day - quite enjoyable !!!!
Here’s todays map link :-https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z1G8gwwxwyYo.kmlMhIuiSwco
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