Our meeting place was on the Kingaham road where i had discovered a nice little campsite several months ago and we intended to check it out.
The area is an unused camping reserve on a cattle studded creek flat just at the bottom of the very steep drive and beside a creek crossing, very easy to find if your looking but easy to miss if your not.
I had timed it perfectly as by the time i arrived John had collected the wood and had the campfire going; as a bonus the skies had cleared with not a cloud to be seen.
The next morning had clouded over completely as we headed up to the top of the camping area to check out the two small lakes.
some water lilies...
a small fly...
a Thistle...
We checked out the cattle yard before deciding to follow the road at the base of the range but were stopped by a big new gate so headed up the Range and along the way passed these old cattle yards...
we drove through the Deer farm but they were miles away from the fence so didn't get a pic although i did get one of some Roos bounding away...
We tried one of the side roads further on but found it blocked off for a car rally so headed to Jimna finding most of the side roads blocked, with out plans thwarted we decided to head back to the first blockade to take some pics but when we arrived they were turning some spectators away so i parked the ute under a tree, grabbed the camera and sauntered up to the officials saying "we are the photographers, when's the first car arriving?" ... my bluff worked and we had full access to the corner :-)
We headed off towards Goomeri for a look around with the odd bit of rain starting to show itself...
the doghouse...
We turned south and found a nice campspot beside Kinbombi Falls but after walking all the way to the bottom found the pools even greener than this Water Dragon and no water falling...
The skies were not looking kind so i rigged a tarp off the truck just in case and we settled down before the campfire to cook dinner, i had only heated a can of soup before the rain snuck up behind us so we adjourned to the tarp and sat on the Swags to eat.
There was no sign of it easing so as dark fell we retired to the warmth and comfort of our swags.
First light next morning found 2 1/2" of rain had fallen and although the falls were flowing it was only inside the large crack in the rock.
We packed up and followed a few state forest tracks passing Gallangowan fire tower on our way back towards Jimna...
The track across to Imbil had some very wet clay on the steep section and i thought it prudent to wack it in 4WD for the long steep downhill just before our Friday night campsite, once on the valley floor we had a nice easy run to Imbil where we had a very nice coffee and cheesecake...
after finding out the Steeam train would arrive in another 2 hours ... we had another coffee and cheesecake !!
We wandered around the market and checked out some of the shops ...
John is gunna kill me for this pic :-)
Finally the Mary Valley Rattler arrived so we grabbed our pic and headed for home.
