Lunch on the Balonne River
John and I had stayed in St George on our trip to the
Gulf in 2009. I should have remembered the nice caravan park where we had stayed last time. They had an afternoon happy hour
around a campfire. However the one I booked wasn’t the one. No campfire but a
nice park anyway. We had met Lynn and
Peter for the first time in St George, friends we still keep in touch with and
hope to meet up with towards the end of this trip.
We left Dalby after breakfast and John drove the 300 klms to
St George on the Moonie Highway, stopping for lunch at one of the parking bays along the highway. It’s a pretty
boring drive; lots of road kill on the way. We even had to swerve to the other
lane several times to avoid a dead kangaroo or fox.
The weather has been unseasonably warm. It feels like
spring.
St George is on the Balonne River, for the past three years in
a row, the town has seen big floods. The worst one was in 2011, when the whole
population was evacuated. There is a
flood sign marker along the river with unbelievable height readings dating back
to 1890. The area is known for cotton farms and the river supplies water for irrigation.
We enjoyed a river cruise this morning on the Balonne, later a T model Ford drive around town.
irrigation pumps along the river.
A Kite.
We enjoyed a river cruise this morning on the Balonne, later a T model Ford drive around town.
T Model Ford
The flood height marker
Lunch was the ideal time for a sausage sizzle as the wind
was picking up and later in the day would have been too cold by the river.
The booking for our next stop at Cullamulla is done. We will
head towards there tomorrow, 292 klms away.
Gecko
18th July.
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