Undara Qld Just 21st 2024
Three hundred and eighty five kilometres north of Charters Towers, is Undara, or to be more precede the Discovery Parks Undara Lava Tubes caravan park.
Of the 385km, there is a huge free camp about 30km north of CT, a town called Glendale that I missed this time because I blinked, a Spring Creek with a patch of dirt for caravan, and The Lynd, a lonely roadhouse. I still have no idea why its called the Lynd, and it doesn’t appear on the map, but its 260km north of CT and is the only fuel (only anything actually) between CT and Mount Garnet, some 140km further up the road. We have stopped here every time we’ve been up here, might as well fill up the tank, grab a coffee, a sandwich and use the facilities. Facilities? They are closed and padlocked and carry a big sign hat says “For the use of Roadhouse customers only”. But you’re welcome to wander way out and down the back and use one of the toilets in the two dongas left open for that purpose, and you don't have to be a customer. The lady who had been there on our previous visits was now gone and replaced by some young persons.
Anyway, suitably refreshed and relieved, we finished the trip off and arrived in Undara in good time. Basically were are here todo nothing except read and enjoy the bush setting. We tested the bar’s produce of Bush Sunset and Grant Burge wine and found both to be excellent. So good we went back the second day and had a double of each.
We did get off our lazy backsides and do the shortest walk, to The Bluff, but Judy found it a bit hard on her calf muscles and knees and back. The view from he top over the caravan park is ok, you can even see a extinct volcano in the distance.
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| Undara Lodge from the top of The Bluff. Undara, Qld |
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| A dead volcano. |
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| Judy sampling a Bush Sunrise. Undara, Qld |
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