Amamoor Creek - 15th to 17th of November



This trip was another 2 night get away back to one of our usual spots – Amamoor Creek Campground in the Amamoor State Forest. We left home on the Friday afternoon after school had finished and we arrived at the campground just after 4pm where we found Bron and Steve who had just started setting up. The campground was empty apart from one other camper and it stayed this way for the entire weekend. We found this a little strange as our previous visits to this campground resulted in us having to share with numerous other groups. QLD National Parks have reduced the camping numbers at this site from 200 to 100 people due to not having enough toilets so this and the forecasted storms may have been the reason it was so quiet.

The weather was nice and warm and we had a brief storm roll through on Saturday around lunch time… The creek was still flowing and we all enjoyed swimming in the creek to cool off. We packed up just before lunch time on Sunday and where soon safely back at home.

Trip Distance = 230km
Total distance travelled with camper = 7412km
Total number of nights in the camper = 57

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