20240709 QLD Dingo to Duaringa

20240709 Our mining adventure began following the Isaac trail from Collinsville through to Middlemount and I must say I was pleasantly surprised  just how impressed I have been with this trip and the knowledge I have hopefully retained. There’s towns tell a story of the past and present from heritage listed pub to abandoned mines and that’s before you venture further inland to the scenic sights of the Gemini Peaks to the Lords Table Mountain, which hopefully one day I will fly over and maybe land on its table top. I would recommend this circuit to anyone who has an interest in what makes Australia what it is today, a bloody impressive beautiful place to live, and with stories that can definitely, pull at your heart strings.

The town of Coppabella is a small community that’s recognised for its large mining monument at the entrance of the town and was designed to service the junction of two railway lines, one from Goonyella Mine and the other from Saraji Mine. The railway line would then continue on to the sea at Hay Point, Sarina.

My last post on the mining giant’s, Coppabella Mining Memorial is a coal wagon commemorating the mining industry of the district and the mining township.

Now that I never knew, very interesting.

We woke to a morning of fog cover so there was no hurry to move on, not that we ever leave before 10am or more, we are always the last to leave. We have a big trip ahead of us this morning as we hit the road heading 100 odd K’s up the road to Dingo, along the Fitzroy Development Rd 

We saw some water that looked like yabby country in Higgins Creek at Bingegang so we checked it out, nop, there’s no yabbies here, bugger.

You will always find graffiti under a bridge where the locals come to leave there rubbish, nothing shit’s me more.

Surely these Mussles don’t come out of the river but they’re scattered everywhere.

Just as well we don’t tow anything because we would have a hell of a time trying to turn around in tight spots like this.

Passing the Tropic of Capricorn and where the scene charged to less trees and what looks more like cattle country. Well it looks like we’ve left the mining towns as we edge closer to the coast but it’s definitely been a trip with a different twist. The one good thing about these mining town is the great phone coverage, there’s towers scatted throughout these towns with both Telstra and Optus so I’ve been able to stay on top of my blog.

THE ANIMAL AND TOWN  A Direct Descendant Of The Asian Pariah Dog. This Animal Has Been Indigenous To The Australia Mainland For Almost Ten Thousand Years And Is The Only Carnivorous Predator in Australia. The Dingo Is Synonymous With Australian Myth. Folklore And Legend And Its Prevalence In The Area During Early Settlement Days Caused The Town To Be So Named By Pioneer Moses Wafer Who Camped At  The Site On Which The Town Grew And Named It Dingo After The Wild Dog He Herd Howling In The Night. We stopped at the Caltex in Dingo and quickly left, they sure no how to sting you in the fast food department so its onto Duaringa for a much needed shower and camp the night, we might even check out the hotel for dinner. We camped at Duaringa for the night a great camp with hot showers for a small donation and some $4 fresh farm eggs from the information centre and a poem to read if you please. 20240710 We pull out at 10:30am, we are right on time I said to Des, we are always the last to leave. Stopped at the Dawson River in front of the of someone’s drive where Des put a couple of pot in hoping for a last chance effort at catching some yabbies and while there we checked out an abandoned house. It’s a loooong road ahead We just passed over the McKenzie River and were surprised to see water so we did a quick turn onto a side road to check it out, Opps, soft sand, but killer got it out, just!.  Des threw in a couple of pot and after a couple of hours he wanders back down only to return empty handed. Des may not have got any yabbies but I do like photos of a creek under a bridge. I’ve seen many abandoned homes on our travels but this is the first one I have been able to check out, It’s such a shame to see these old Queenslanders falling apart. This was once the inside of the house, there’s not much left of it now. It was once a beautiful Queenslander with the verandas, now it an abandoned wreck. Des checking out this old shed with some old useless relics left abandoned. We moved onto Dululu along the Capricorn Hwy before turning onto the Leichhardt Hwy passing through Westwood when not one but two pilot cars with lights flashing went past then a policemen hanging out the window pointed for us to get off the road, then around the bend we spotted the oversized load. This was the widest oversized load we have witnessed on any of our trips, talk about dangerous, Des had to try and pull off onto an edge that was on a steep angle. Dululu Next