Easter 5 hours from Brisbane
Submitted: Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:14
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Member - Troll 81 (QLD)
Gday
Looking for a little getaway over
Easter within a 5 hour drive from
Brisbane. Want to be away from the crowds a must! We have done just about every trip in the Dirty Weekends away and looking to head west somewhere at the moment.
Any recommendations?
Reply By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:18
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:18
Manar Park, up near Proston. Plenty of room. Good tracks.
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Reply By: Trevor W(Brisbane) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:22
Reply By: Pezza (Bris) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:32
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:32
Reckon the only place your gonna get to "get away from the crowds" at
easter is in your back yard mate :-))
Cheers
Pezza
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Follow Up By: Member - Troll 81 (QLD) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 14:28
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 14:28
think you might be right mate
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Reply By: troopyman - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:00
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:00
You could always drive to the
brisbane CBD as all the workers have gone camping .
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Reply By: furph - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:22
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:22
Google "bullock mountain homestead" 20km. w of Glen Innes. (~ 4.5hrs. Bris.)
Sapphire fossicking. fishing (cod, yellowbelly, redfin) horseriding on 2000acres.
Steve a great host, I will actually be camped there with the family myself.
furph
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Follow Up By: troopyman - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:38
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:38
Well i would say by the trouble i am having getting onto the site a thousand other people are googling it as
well . May be a crowd there LOL .
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Follow Up By: furph - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:29
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:29
I would have to say that with 7km. of river we wont be too crowded! (from past experience)
It is a favorite retreat for us and the family being so accessible from
Sydney.
furph
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Reply By: Big Woody - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:19
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:19
Try this spot
It is less than 5 hours from
Brisbane and nice and quiet.
Spent from Xmas to New Years camped here on our ownw with tinny beached right in front of the
camp. Not one other camper in sight.
Don't tell anyone about this secret spot though. Wouldn't want word to get out.
BW
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Follow Up By: Member - Ruth D (QLD) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:55
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:55
BW, how was the fishing?
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Follow Up By: Big Woody - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 21:10
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 21:10
HI Ruth,
2 big flathead, 3 bream, a dozen whiting, and 17
mangrove jack.
I live not far from this spot and normally it is big bream and flathead by the dozen but they were unusually quiet at Christmas. Never caught
Mangrove Jack here before but locked into a good patch on the other side of the river and caught 17 in an hour just on sunset.
Great fun.
BW
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Follow Up By: Member - Ruth D (QLD) - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 13:53
Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 13:53
BW, what a nice haul. Good eating those
Mangrove Jack.
Think we'll have to come up from south of Bris and the b-i-l can come down from
Gladstone with the tinnie and investigate.
Just got back from fishing - left here at 6:00 am, still a bit too much floodwater - only caught
black bream (on yabbies) no yellow belly at all.
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Reply By: Isuzumu - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:55
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:55
Hi Troll, you have said that you have done most of the Dirty Weekend trips, just wandering if you have been to
Cracow Beach think it may be in the CQ book? anyway we are going for a look and see what's there this
Easter might have to have a couple of pots at the
Cracow pub on the way through hahahahahaha
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Reply By: Keith_A (Qld) - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 14:16
Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 14:16
Hi Troll - Two suggestions :
1. Gordons Country at Goomburra -
camp anywhere on the 4000 acre cattle property. Go via Cunningsham gap, then turn at the Driver Reviver at Gladfield, then to Goomburra.
This is only aprox 2.5 hrs away.
2. For solitude, the place you are looking for is called "Expedition National Park" - a truly isolated wilderness park. More like 8 hours - 650 klms, but you will probably have the entire place to yourself. Get there via
Toowoomba,
Miles,
Taroom.
Just outside
Taroom is
Lake Murphy Conservation park - stay a night - then follow the road to Expedition.
nb - must be totally self sufficient. Does have a fairly new compositing
toilet.
.......................Keith
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Follow Up By: Member - Troll 81 (QLD) - Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 20:25
Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 20:25
Gday Keith,
Been to
Gordon Country a couple of times and love out there next to the river....great spot.
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Reply By: Andy and Mandy - Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 00:06
Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 00:06
What about some
bush camping out near Moonie on the Moonie River. You could even have a night camping on the banks of the river at the best pub in Queensland, the
Nindigully Hotel? There are some lovely secluded riverside campspots out there in the camps book and its definitely west.
whereever you decide to go, have a great
easter!!
Andy & Mandy
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