20240622 Qld Kuttabul, St Helens Beach, Bloomsbury to Gravel Pit

20240622 With a full belly and our shopping completed we hit the A1, Bruce Hwy to check out the Kuttabul Pub that’s just after the Leap Hotel where we have stayed in the passed but the camp grounds are close to the road and you get a lot of traffic noise so we thought, why not check out the Kuttabul, if it wasn’t for the pub it would be easy to miss the town of Kuttabul.  

The hotel opened prior to 1877 as the Wauraltee Hotel and was renamed the Port Victoria Hotel in 1981 and here it stands today as the Kuttabul Hotel just an half and hour from Mackay off the Bruce Highway and it has free parking.

We parked up the back and I grabbed my camera and head to the pub while Des searches for water, I don’t know what he expected to find down the back near the cane fields but he sure shit himself when a snake slithered behind him, there was no peeing outside tonight.

The Mummas Boys are a non-profit group of good old boys who choose to ride old school choppers for charity and it’s on at the end of the month, bugger that would have been great to see.

The main bar shows memorabilia, photos of hogs and much more.

The Pub opened in the same decade the outlaw Ned Kelly was executed and has a new bar that was unveiled in his honour.


The new bar is made out of recycled timbers from around the district and includes a jail cell adorned with authentic ball-and-chain ankle cuffs.

The walls are lined with photos of people holding up their slaughtered hogs and crafted like this.

Another Pub wall we get to leave our mark on.

20240623 Passing through Mount Ossa where the main scene is sugar cane with the odd homes in the distance, I think it’s fair to say Australia certainly has a lot of untouched land, so far. Just past Callan we turned off onto St Helens Beach Rd to check out St Helens Beach just for something different. 

St Helens Beach, the only road in the town, it’s hade to believe there’s a population of 175 in this tiny beachfront town.

We drove down to the camp grounds to check it out, it’s a small camp with BBQ’s and the bones is there’s hot showers for a 20c coin, now that’s a bargain.

We took advantage of the showers before heading back to the highway through cattle country, we came we saw we left. Back on the Bruce Hwy and we pass Pindi Pindi, stopping at Bloomsbury BP for lunch but at $9 for a medium pack of chips we decided against it, do ya want an ice cream said Des until we looked at the price, $8.50 for a Golden Gaytime, we left and drove 10ks up the road and camped at a Gravel Pit. We pulled up beside a shelter, had a nanny nap then Des got us a beer and we sat outside and watched the traffic go by.

We parked up the went for a walk to check out our surroundings, the dirt road lead to an intersection with more dirt roads so we returned.

Even in the middle of nowhere on dirt roads you are sure to find some graffiti.

The traffic can be a bit noisy at these gravel pit but I much prefer camping here than a caravan park, we have the mountains as a back drop, the cattle grazing off the land and bugger me dead I just saw two Brolga’s land in the paddock over the road dancing with each other not to mention the beautiful sunset, I can put up with a bit of traffic noise for this view.

The End

Location: Kuttabul QLD 4741, Australia

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