Questions about Qld...

Midge Point is not named after midges It was the name of a boat that was wrecked there. I went in and had a look last year and wasn't too impressed. Beach was a typical tropical Queensland beach at low tide but you could swim OK at high tide. I have seen a couple of negative reports about Midge Point caravan park mostly by people with dogs when the park advertises dog friendly so they could be biased. Yes stingers disappear during winter. I haven't been to Carnarvon for 20yrs so I can't help you there. Why don't you put the question to one of the specailist caravanners froums as you should get more caravan info there. There is also a site called Badgers that has personal reports on caravan parks you might find this handy.

This link will take you to the caravanners forum
http://groups.msn.com/Caravanersforum/
This link will get you to Badgers
http://www.geocities.com/flourpower.geo/parks.htm#Park%20listing

Rick we went to Carnarvon in July last year ( didn't tow a van though ) but there were some very big dual axle vans at the caravan park. There was about 6 inches of water on the creek crossings but they did have a concrete base. The last 30km from the high way was a very good and wide gravel road with few corrogations ( at that time ).
Cheers
AK

Can't help with Midge Point, but I spent Easter at Carnarvon Gorge and we had a ball.

The road in is easy. At least half it is bitumen now and the rest is well graded gravel. There were a number of big 'vans in at the camp grounds and nobody complained of anything except the dust.

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I agree with Meggs comment....if Midge Point is the one located nth of Mackay that is.....swimming is beautiful so long as its not stinger season. Have not been there for a very long time (Years) but it would not have changed that much.
Not to deter u , but the people who ran it some time ago were rude bastards, we found this on several occasions....even comments from other people were similar!....Lucky for the location!