Camp Sites on the Plenty Hwy

http://www.racq.com.au/benefits__and__discounts/road_conditions

Plenty of water there at the moment-flooding at Roxborough Downs, Georgina River etc etc

All roads closed in that area Plenty, Donohue, Birdsville-Boulia and more

My mate, George(NT) and his wife, flew out of Boulia today back to Darwin via Brisbane leaving their Nissan parked behind the pub to wait for rebuilt roads and drier weather. They had been in Boulia for the past 8 days, marooned. They said that the people of Bouia looked after them very well.


Cheers

Bedourie is getting ready for the water comming down.
they reckon their going to be isolated for up to 2 months.
know one in town is old enough to remember if the water has got that high before.
there is places up there that have never been flooded before.

cheers

Bedourie would have flooded significantly in 2000 and the late 70's, however they are saying there was also record rainfall in the area. Flood history of Georgina and Eyre Creek is here http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/brochures/georgina/georgina.shtml

well the mayor reckons its a big one and they are suprised where it has flooded as the is no record of it flooding where it has or will.

It hadn't been upgraded in 2008 either!!

As a companion camper with John and Heather we found (Plenty) no pun intended of campsites when travelling east to west.

Both happened to be on the left and behind some "hills".

As previous said check wind direction so you don't eat dust. Only one vehicle went past but at 9pm at night dust still about.

On the west to east trip stopped across the road from the entrance to Tobermory. Drove round the back to the "quarry" and found a nice spot.

Got some amazing photo's of the sunset that day.

Cheers
Garth

Garth, g'day mate, here is one of the camp sites. Circle up, circle up. Was a fantastic trip with the company we had, you, Jim and Sandy and Debra and Mike. I remember hearing the "I don't want this trip to end" coming over the UHF, the poetry and singing too.

The Arthur River is about 150klms after Tobermorey Station going West. Forgot to add that to my reply.


Regards Derek

Thanks all for your imput. Looks like Harts Range may be the go or as some mentioned "just drive up the creek"

Cheers