Thursday 12th September - Ceratodus Free Camp

Left Bedford Weir on a day that is going to be HOT.  8.10am on the road and already HOT.  Passed through Bluff where there are lots of Coal Trains - huge, with 102 wagons on each train (I counted them!!!) all full of coal. Down to Dingo then onto Duaringa for MT.  We have been stopped on the highway waiting for a "wide load" to pass.  The pilot car has blocked the highway and we are sitting here waiting.  There has already been a very wide load pass and we had to pull right off the road and wait. When we got going again I could understand why we were stopped, the road was very narrow, very steep, and very windy.  Would not have liked to have met the wide load on that particular piece of road. Turning right onto the Dawson Highway thru Dululu and lunch at Biloela at a lovely Bakery.  When I was in the Bakery the girl there told me that Biloela in Aboriginal means "White Cockatoo".(a bit of trivia!!)  We are now drivng thru wheat country, down thru Thangool and on to Ceratodus free camp for the night which is 10kms north of Eidsvold. We met a lady at the free camp that told us a story of a lady in the farmhouse  across the road from the camp.  Apparently in the floods of 2011 she was told to evacuate because The Burnett River was in flood.  By the time she left she was swept 2kms down river and was found 2 days later by her neighbour in a tree.  She was OK thankfully.  You can still see signs of where the river has been in flood, and a lot of trees in the neighbouring paddock that have all been pushed over by the flooding water.  Where we camped there is debris in trees 10 feet above our heads.  Must have been very scary.........