everywhere is flooded lol

Mate,
check out the RACQ website and follow the road reporting link.
Regards
Dave

Mate why not start your research on this very site.
Road reports, trip details etc etc are right here.

Look here for National Road Reports

I love a sunburnt country....

Come down to the Central West of NSW, truly beautifukl on day perfect the next.

Here is a link to our weather forecast

http://www.eldersweather.com.au/local.jsp?lt=aploc&lc=5492

The Kwiambal National Park is located to the north west of Ashford. You travel along the Coolatai Road about 25Km to find the park. It is located at the junction of the Severn and Macintyre Rivers. Pronounced Ki-am-bal, the park has an area of around 2600 hectares and features some spectacular waterfalls, steep sided valleys and River Red Gums.

The park has a variety of native flora and fauna including koalas, kangaroos, platypus, wallabies and wallaroos.

If you havent been here -This is a nice spot and not all that far from you on the Severn River

Don't delieve all that you hear. Its all good some roads may be cut if you get a heavy down fall but they are only cut until the water flashs past. But if they is a chance of heavy rain late arvo or over night they may close some road if its really bad for safety. Gundy to Miles through the Moonie crossroads can be a problem in heavy rain lately. Gundy to St. Goerge is good Main Roads have just built new bridges from Gundy to Mindigully. St.George to Thargo out through Cunnamulla is fine just watchout for flash flooding if you come across any heavy down pours. Gundy out to Mungindi is abit boggy in some places if you go along the Boomi Rd but as always rocky. I go to these parts every couple of weeks of work and to be safe ring ahead to the locals cop shop and just ask they can tell you whats closed or will be closed. Thats what I do.

Hope It helps
Derek L

All the roads seem to be drying out. There is still water over the road between Moree and Goondiwindi. Going to be passing through there on Sunday in the toy car so hope it has dried out by then.

You can always check NSW Road Report or RACQ Road Report via Google. These sites are updated on a daily basis.



Cheers

The Bruce Highway was closed last night to all traffic between Calliope crossroads and Rockhampton. The road reopened at around 10:30pm when the rain eased and the water was well down.
I had a great time in the pouring rain doing Traffic control at the crossroads to stop all the north bound traffic. We ended up with 50+ trucks and quite a few cars in the truck parking bays :)

I also heard that the road was out between Nindigully and St George (Moonie river in flood).

So it may be best to check with both the local police and the RACQ before you travel to far in QLD

Cheers Kev

Can someone organise to send some of your rain to SA, we've had 10mm since Xmas. Heard on the news last night that somewhere in Qld had 75mm more than our last years total in 48 Hours.

Happy (dry) trails, Mike.

Fact is we honestly need the rain so i shouldnt grumble,but, having said that,very little has fallen in our local dams and lakes in southeasdt qld. If they were getting good rainfall it would make the discomfort worthwhile.

In the few travels weve done this year the first thing that you realise over other years is the country is beautifully green.It makes the travelling so much more pleasant...Rod

Don't necessarily rely on the RACQ and other reports. They've been showing the road from Cunnamulla to Thargominda as cut off at Eulo. I called the pub at Eulo last weekend and they told me that the road had been open for at least four days. I then e-mailed RACQ and told them that this road was now open. The nice reply I got suggested that the road had only just reopened the day before but for two more days the website showed it as closed. Now I realise that RACQ can't call every place to confirm road closure and my e-mail was probably the reason that the road is now shown as open on their site. However, the bottom line is that you should actually ring the locals to be absolutely sure

Yes but this means the chance of Lake Eyre flooding is increasing:
This is an extract from the ABC ...


A publican on the Birdsville Track says potential tourists from across Australia have been in contact, eager to know if south-west Queensland floodwaters will fill Lake Eyre in outback South Australia.

Floodwaters from the Thomson, Barcoo and Cooper Creek systems are flowing toward the South Australian border and there are also flows being monitored in the Diamantina and Georgina systems.

Phil Gregurke from the Mungerannie Hotel says he has been surprised at how much interest there is.

"Mainly all from interstate, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, some of the four-wheel drive clubs and just general interest," he said.

"The water doesn't seem to run very often. Whether it gets down to Lake Eyre - it has to fill Lake Hope first, it may get down to Coopers Crossing, but a lot of locals are saying they need follow-up rains for all of this to happen."

While we're on about all this, the last report from the OB QLD area on ExplorOZ is listed as Jan 29 - that's 2 weeks old! Is Cordillo Downs open or closed, can you drive the Bulloo Dev Rd from Cunnamulla to Thargo, is Walker's crossing passable? Please update this section.