Woodgate Bech Qld 4/5 September 2019

Woodgate Bech Qld 4/5 September 2019

For several reasons, one of which is because we hadn't been there before but mostly to see if this was a viable alternative to Agnes Water, in case we lost 'our' spot there, we decided to come here for a look-see. It's about 70km south of Bundaberg on a reasonable but definitely 'back' road. The journey from Agnes Water is in total about 200km but seemed to take all day, topped of by endless road works once you take the turn to Woodgate.

It all started to get some sort of familiar feel to it, but as soon as we hit the town proper we both said at the same time, 'Oi, we've been here before!' And so we had as it transpires, several years ago on an earlier reconnaissance tour. The park itself is one of the newly branded NRMA ones and while they have done a heap work to it, if we hadn't lucked into possibly the best spot, we wouldn't have rated it very highly. Apart from the van park, there is a long flat stretch of sand out the front, a nice path that follows the beach, a pub and not much else. Here are the highlights:

Woodgate Beach Qld

Interesting table setting at Woodgate beach pub

At he northerly end of the beach there is a place called Theodolite Creek, and despite my best efforts I couldn't find out why it was so called, I had imagined it might have been a place where a survey of this part of the country was started, being at sea level.

We amused ourselves by driving the 40km out to Childers for a cup of coffee! One thing that we both noticed was that the roadworks were being done at a terrific pace, bits we had been on yesterday were now finished, and by the time we came back from Childers, even more was done. Amazing, maybe they should get a job out on the Bruce....

We ended our stay with dinner at the hotel, which was very pleasant, but in the end, we were both very disappointed with the place and left ourselves wondering why we gave up two nights at Agnes Water for it. Oh, well, we now know better for future reference.