Quilpie

As we did not stay in Windorah we found ourselves in Quilpie, here the flies though bad were at least bearable, so we booked in for two nights, and planed a trip back to Eromaga and their dinosaur display, the following day.

At the tourist information centre we were informed of “The Story of Quilpeta” a show at night that was well worth seeing, as it explained much of the history of the town and its founders.

The morning of our 2nd day in Quilpie saw us heading off to Eromaga about 100km each way, but somehow, we were not informed that Mon Chéri could not come with us at the dinosaur centre and that she would need to be tied up outside (there was no place for her out of the sun and away from the flies which were worse here than at Windorah) this we could not do!

We returned to Quilpie, then decided to visit yet another town 100km in the other direct, one we had heard of that was interesting, or at least it would have been but for the big wet.

You see Adavale is built near the water, this is ok but the area is also in Channel Country and it turns out that when the waters flow, Adavale is right in the dry riverbed, the reason Queensland rail did not go ahead with the rail through there but went instead to Quilpie, this flood devastated the town so bad it may never recover.

From Adavale we thought of going to Hell Hole Gorge and would have but for road closures.
At this point I must add that the local councils have been very responsible with their opening and closing of roads, it seems to me that they kept roads closed till well after the water had gone, this resulted in far less damage to the roads than in places where the roads were opened when they were passible. Good news for us in that it made travelling on these roads quite smooth better than most Queensland roads.

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