Overland Australia

We left a little later than usual for this trip as I had to install the new deep cycle batteries into the camper and collect some fire wood. We hit the road shortly after 9 am and made our way north on the Bruce Highway. It wasn't long before we were turning left in Gympie to head out to the Brooyar State forest. Access to the camp ground is via a dirt road that's in good condition. http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/brooyar/camping.html When we arrived we found Bron, Steve and Alana who had arrived a little earlier and set about setting up camp. We spent most of the day relaxing in camp, after lunch Steve and I took the kids for a bush bash through the scrub to climb a little escarpment that we could see from camp. It was a good way to burn off some of the kids energy and the views from the top looking over the valley and camp ground were fantastic. Late in the arvo we got the fire going so we could cook our casserole dinner and settled in for the evening with a few drink...

We set off from home on Friday afternoon after picking the kids up from school, Bribie Island is nice and close and it wasn't long before we were airing down for the short trip up the Northern Access 4wd track to the Poverty Creek camp ground. The track in was in fairly good condition and we had no trouble towing the camper in on the sandy tracks. After a quick set up we got the fire going and were soon joined by our good mate Vaughan, he had recently got himself a camper trailer and this was his first trip away with it. It soon got dark and Anna cooked up a delicious chicken curry and we settled in around the fire for the night. On Saturday morning we were greeted with a beautiful day, after a quick cup of coffee and breakfast we headed down to the passage to do some fishing. I brought my kayak and spent most of the morning out on the water and managed to pick a few nice bream. Just after lunch Vaughan left to pick up Nat from work and they returned a couple of hours later...