At the Fletchers creeks camping ground (40km north of Charters Towers).
Hello friends,
Just thought we would get this blog in quick before we lose wi fi coverage.
We left Charters Towers a few days ago and stayed in really nice camping spot called Fletchers Creek, where it had a pair of lovely eagles flying up and down catching fish from the waters edge.
We had only really discovered how popular campervan-ing around the countryside has become, at this particular site, there must have been over 100 vehicles in all different shapes and sizes. It just blew us away how big the campervan movement really is. Some people have full size buses decked out with even a trailer in tow with a spare car on the back of it.
We headed up to the Undarra National Park, which is famous for its lava tubes that are over 160,000 years old with the spreading of them over the land, up to 200kms. The outsides of the lava flow would cool very quickly, leaving a hollow tube for the lava to flow through at a pace of 14 kms an hour. Some of the lava from some 180 different craters flowed for over 100 years continuously.
Anyways thats enough blabbering on with cod shite and look forward to posting our next blog in the next few days/week. We are off to Kurrumbin in the gulf of Qld to try some of the prawns that are caught there, then off to visit Mt Isa to go 1.5kms down a mine shaft.
Take care all and stay in touch.
Matt and Louise xoxox
Just to give you an idea of how many campervans were at the Fletchers creek camp site 40km north of Charters Towers. There must have been over 100 campervans, caravans and motor homes, along this one road.
At the Fletchers creek camping spot just 40km north of Charters Towers.
Photo taken at a petrol station on the way to the Undarra lava tubes, these were some of the trucks we had to contend with on a 250km single lane road. We had to pull over to the side of the road and stop every time one of these monsters came roaring past.
There were no more fuel stops for 250km, and on this particular day, the diesel pump was out not working and people were pulling up wanting to fill up. I can only assume they had to stay there until the pump was fixed (maybe a few days stay in the middle of nowhere).
Louise with a black headed python where we stayed at the Undarra camping resort.
His name is Clancy and Louise wanted to take him home- she adores snakes...!!
Louise getting a photo taken before entering a lava tube.
A view inside a lava tube before walking into it, Aboriginals were believed to have once stayed in this tube when the weather was bad. They use to select places to shelter in that had two entries/exits, just incase some nasties decide to attack them from one side, they could fight and escape from the other side.
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