Dickabram Bridge

After a pleasant two day stop over at Lake Monduran unfortunately the time has come for us to start heading south. We travelled back down the Bruce Hwy with numerous stops for roadworks, only avoided having to stop once. It must be costing a fortune for all these roadworks let alone paying for all the lollipop people at all the different sections.

We stopped at Childers to pick up some supplies and of course checked out their Bakery, buying a couple of Savory Rolls and a French Vanilla Slice for our morning tea (delicious). It was then off to our next destination a free campsite near Dickabram Bridge that crosses over the Mary River. The bridge was built in 1886 and stands 23 metres above the Mary River, and is 200 metres long. The unique design of this dual purpose bridge with its road and rail crossing, the road deck is constructed of timber. The river piers are concrete filled cast iron cylinders the remaining piers are timber. Rumor has it that three men died during the construction of the bridge, one of which supposedly fell down one of the cast iron cylinders while barrowing cement to fill it. It was sometime later that they realised that he may have been buried in the cylinder.

It is a good thing that there is very little traffic on tfddehis road as when the vehicles cross the bridge it is very noisy with the ratter-ling of the timber planks. We don't think our sleep will be disturbed as we have not heard anything crossing the bridge for the last couple of hours.

We finished off the day sitting around the campfire with a fellow camper looking at the star laiden sky on a crystal clear evening. 

Dickabram Bridge

Mary River

Enjoying the vista Mary River

Dickabram Bridge

Our Campsite Dickabram Bridge

Lake Monduran

Once again we are on the road after spending the last four weeks at Bargara Beach Caravan Park, we headed back out to the Bruce Hwy and headed north towards Gin Gin then onto Lake Monduran which is around 40klms north of Gin Gin.

There had been rainfall of around 30ml two days earlier, so the park manager was taking the opportunity to burn off the surrounding grass lands, we were a bit concerned with the close proximity to our caravan site, luckily it had burnt out by nightfall so we were able to sleep peacefully.

The caravan park is relatively small catering for about 30 powered sites, but has a massive grassed area for camping and unpowered. There are lovely clean amenities and the management are very friendly, a very pleasant stop over. There was a group of members from the ACC Caravan Club in the park as there is an up coming Muster for Wide Bay Branch of the ACC this weekend, some members have arrived early to settle in prior to the muster. When they found out that we were also members of the ACC we were invited to join in their Happy Hour.

The water from the Fred Haig Dam is used for irrigation in the Bundaberg, Gin Gin and Childers area. 

Burning off near our van

Dam wall Lake Moduran

Lake Moduran

Camp ground Lake Moduran Dam