WURUMA DAM

We head back inland on our way to Wuruma Dam and need to stop for the night at a place called Gayndah.  Believe me when I tell you they have the bestus juiciest mandarines that we have ever tasted!

The owner of this place says they do their very best to grow them as organically as possible but sometime have to use a spray if insects are bad.

Apparently Gayndah is the oldest town in Queensland

Inside the big Mandarine they had some pictures of old advertising that has been used yester-year

 And some cool paintings done by one of the locals

We ended up pitching camp just out of a town called Eidsvold in the Northern Burnett region. The following picture is of the old Ceratodus train station that was relocated just near the Burnett River as a tribute to the pioneers who built the rail line and settled in North Burnett.

We spoke to some of the locals in the area and they said in 2013 a flood devastated towns in the region and Eidsvold didn't escape.  Apparently this bridge was around 15 m under water and at the time the river measured approximately 11 km wide.

Even still today you can see remnants of the aftermath lodged in the trees

The next day we made it to Wuruma Dam and set up camp

So we had a choice to either to finish the bottle of water sitting on the table or crack open a beer.  Any takers on which one won out?

The camp

and as the sun was heading West another beautiful day in paradise was drawing to a close

The next morning we had a visitor for breakfast in this king of the bush 'Kookaburra'

In most metropolitan regions of Australia you are lucky to hear a Kookaburra let alone get a close up encounter like this fella

Well actually this little fella seemed to have something on his mind getting so up close and personal

He didn't seem to be too worried about yesterday's beer can but as soon as I brought a morsel of breakfast out of the van he seemed to think he was an invited guest!

Hmm I think he might have done this before eh!

Anyways after a bit of a fight for breakfast......

Pretty sure this is one of those collapsible boats...??

After talking with some of these fishermen they said they have been catching so many 'Red Claw' they could not eat them all.  Similar meat to a prawn just a little stronger taste.  One fella said he caught over 200 in an afternoon.  The dam authority are happy for people to take what they want because there appears to be too many in the dam.  In fact once caught it is against the rules of the dam to throw any back!

And so after a few days at this very popular camp we decided to put some more kilometres under our belts and head further north.  This time our destination is a place called Cania Gorge.

So Kaz, yep it's time to hit the old frog and toad.