Day Nineteen - Tuesday 6th May, 2025
Duaringa Hotel to Neville Hewitt Weir Dawson River Donation Camp
It has been interesting travelling through Blackwater area, seeing the mining sites and infrastructure. We haven't been out this way for over a decade I reckon.
Today's destination we've decided is Neville Hewitt Weir at Baralaba. We've never been there, so see how we go. We stopped at the Free Camp Rest stop in Duaringa first because we have phone coverage there, so I could do a little snippet of work. Craig walked over to the truckstop and got us a coffee and got 2 free donuts because it's Tuesday and they were delicious.
Off we went down the Fitzroy Development Road, holey crap we were not expecting it to turn into the dirt road from hell!! We passed an ambulance and car going the opposite way to us and wondered why they were crawling along at snails pace.... well slap me silly we found out why! then Craig announces we should have got fuel at Duaringa and asked if Baralaba had any - which it did not seem to have fuel from what I could find out online, so you guessed it, change of plans. We would need to keep going south to Bauhinia to get fuel, we didn't have enough to get to Baralaba and back out to Bauhinia and this road was not helping with our fuel consumption - WOW! So, Craig is used to driving his Hilux which has a 145lt fuel tank and is what we used to do all our holidays in, he forgets my Hilux has a standard size fuel tank 🤦♀️
Near destination for tonight now is Dawson River Donation Camp west of Moura. We've stayed here before about 10 or so years ago and remember it being a good camp. Pulled in about lunchtime, parked and walked around the camping area to find a spot. Set up in a nice little spot away from everyone, looking into the bush and had a firepit.
After we had lunch we watched these 4 big caravans obviously travelling together, roar into the camping area kicking up dust over everyone, driving around looking for a big enough area for all of them to set up. Once they stopped moving, we took Barney for a walk around the park.
Arrving back at camp after our walk I said to Craig "um, our firepit is gone", he said "no we didn't have one", I assured him we most definitely did, it was right there where that pile of ash is. He went over and sure enough there was a trail of ash leading away to guess where..... yep the 4 big caravans, the cheeky pricks cam and stole our firepit while we away walking Barney😯 talk about rude! Luckily we have our own firepit because we planned to cook on the fire tonight for the first time all trip. The place is starting to fill up by late afternoon, when we arrived there were 2 vans, a car and tent and there are probably another 13 - 15 campers now. We cooked a wonderful meal over the fire tonight finally - porterhouse steak, chicken kiev, wedges, blistered vine rippened tomatoes and asparagus, so yummy
Sat around the fire after dinner was cleaned up, it was a lovely relaxing evening. Barney saw his first horse this afternoon in the paddock next to us, wasn't really sure about it, so woofed and growled alot at it.
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