Central Queensland

[esie Member Find all posts View Profile Close esie]

We are planning a getaway to Central Qld, ie west of Rocky, for our holidays in May. We will have approximately one and a half weeks to waste

We have a couple of 4WD tour books, ie Gregory's 4WD Tours & Dirty Weekends Central Qld. They both recommend Carnavon Gorge, Mt Moffatt, the Expedition Mountains & Rosa Santora (?) as places to go and get the car dirty. I have also been online and looked at information for Blackdown Tableland as well. Can anyone recommend anywhere else in the same sort of area to go to? Any other recommendations on what to see and do (not necessarily 4WDing) in the area?

Cheers!

[Chuck Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chuck]

Cania Gorge Here

[Hutch Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hutch]

You have to see all of the big bulls in Rocky for sure!!!! hahahaha.

[Chuck Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chuck]

Fairbairn Dam, I hear its pretty full. :lol: :lol:

[MTpockets Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close MTpockets]

Last year we did both Carnoarvon Gorge and Cania Gorge.
We are going to the Qld 4wd Corroboree this weekend, then heading back to Cania Gorge as I am leading a club trip up there after the Corroboree.
Carnarvon is a MUST do at some stage of your life.
If you do the full 22 k walk, take heaps of water, start early and best to walk all the way to the end, then on the way back take all the off tracks to visit all the attractions.
If you dont do it like that you have a long 11 k walk back when you are buggered. Plan on it taking 8 hours at least for the full walk.

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I was at the Gorge recently. Not really a 4wd track but we got very dirty as we had 2 nights of thunderstorm downpours. I took a few photos of the "art gallery" and patched them together .... 1mb file
http://www.bbbalc.com/index.cfm?PageID=230&Menu=Tourism

[plucker Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close plucker]

I was at Blackdown at Easter and the place still had a road or two closed. I think Carnavorn Gorge had only just opened also.
National parks should have both fully opened now.
Blackdown, has its No. 1 spot of Rainbow Waters which is worth the 1/2 hour walk to see it.

They tell me that Fairburn dam is a nice place to camp. One of the locals to that area might know more.
The bank of the Calliope river just down from the Historical village is a free spot to camp also. The village is probably worth a look too.

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Loved the little Historical Village of Calliope

















Cheers
Chippy

[mototrim Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close mototrim]

Great photos Plucker and Chippy,

[esie Member Find all posts View Profile Close esie]

Thanks for your replies everyone.

We have had to put off the trip to central Qld until later in the year now.

Six weeks ago Jeff ruptured his Achilles Tendon, had surgery on it, was in a plaster cast for 5 weeks, and mid-last week he went into an Orthapaedic Boot. However, last Monday he managed to rupture it again, resulting in more surgery with a poor prognosis of a permanent limp, another 6-8 weeks in a cast, orthapaedic boot for 8 weeks, followed by intense physio.

Had he not reinjured the foot, we would have been able to do the trip as we would have been able to campo and do some basic hiking. Now that he is back in a cast and on crutches again, I figure the trip isn't worth doing if we are only going to do half the stuff we wanted to.

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

What a bummer. Sorry to hear that Esie.

Hope Jeff's achiles recovers properly and you can book this trip for later in the year.

Cheers
Chippy

[Big D Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Big D]

If anyones interested, there's free camping at the Bedford weir with toilets, 20km from Blackwater .

[Lazy Eye'd Mike Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Lazy Eye'd Mike]

I too will be taking a look around west of Rock, Gladstone etc, after a stint at 1770 and Yepoon.

Does anyone out there know where I can get a copy of Dirty Weekends - Central Queensland, I appears this is no longer in print.

Any other camping spots for a young family are also welcome.

Mick.

[plucker Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close plucker]

Byfield forest is a good spot with a camp or two beside a deep waterhole which runs all year - I think.
It is not too far of a run to 5 rocks from there which is scenic.

[Snaga Wishing I was lost Find all posts View Profile Close Snaga]

Thanks for your replies everyone.

We have had to put off the trip to central Qld until later in the year now.

Six weeks ago Jeff ruptured his Achilles Tendon, had surgery on it, was in a plaster cast for 5 weeks, and mid-last week he went into an Orthapaedic Boot. However, last Monday he managed to rupture it again, resulting in more surgery with a poor prognosis of a permanent limp, another 6-8 weeks in a cast, orthapaedic boot for 8 weeks, followed by intense physio.

Had he not reinjured the foot, we would have been able to do the trip as we would have been able to campo and do some basic hiking. Now that he is back in a cast and on crutches again, I figure the trip isn't worth doing if we are only going to do half the stuff we wanted to.

Ouch!! Only just looked into this thread...

How's the recovery coming along? I've heard the Achillies Tendon is a rather painful injury :shock: