First thing we drove down and crossed the river beside the dam.
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| Two motorbikes on the road below the dam wall |
The other side had a good lookout and walk back to the wall.
Then we drove back down, parked beside the dam and walked out over the rocks, to look at Burdekin Falls. Darryl went further downstream to see if he could see any of the crocodiles that the ranger had told me lived there, but he couldn't see any.
The road was gravel, all the way to the mining town of Mt Coolon, where we had lunch and took photos of the machinery.
I had planned for us to camp the night at Lake Elphinstone (apparently a great spot for birds), but although the grass was green and there were lovely clean toilets, the lake was completely dry and it was still early so we kept going and went through Nebo, pulling over to camp at Funnel Creek.
It was a weird sensation being here, as back in the 70s this was a place where some people were murdered. In fact this whole stretch of highway was called the 'Horror Stretch'.
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It used to be the main highway north from Rockhampton to Mackay, but was eventually bypassed. When we arrived at this camp there was a Mazda bus camper over beside the fence and looked all closed up. When no-one came out to talk, (we were having Happy Hour, taking photos and checking the trees with binoculars, so I am pretty sure we looked fairly friendly), we assumed they were napping so didn't disturb them. The whole time we didn't see anyone, which was a little creepy, but after dark Darryl could hear someone talking on the phone and we could see a little light through a chink in the curtains.
I was really excited to spot a Koala napping in a tree, but only found him using the binoculars.
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