Mt Larcum Qld Saturday 27 August 2022 (375km)

 Mt Larcum Qld Saturday 27 August 2022 (375km)

Another random pick for overnighting. Mt Larcom is tiny with only 300 odd residents. The  town is located in the bend of the Bruce, as its makes its way around a hill, not Mt Larcom, which is in the distance. This might be the oddest park we’ve been in. It has three tiers up the side of the hill. Instead of backing in next to a slab, you sidle in longways next to a narrow slab. We were on the top, third tier and it’s good job the slab in front of us was, and stayed, empty as its a really weird way to park a van. And the toilets are of course right down the bottom on the flat, two sets of dodgy stairs away in the dead of night. Nice to be high up and have a view, even if it is of the might Bruce and the continuous stream of traffic. Each slab, and every cabin, had the $45 table and two chairs from Bunnings. Odd, but a nice touch.

Just in case you wondered, Mt Larcom was named bu Matthew Flinders as he sailed up the coast in 1802. Mt Larcom is also 28km inland from Gladstone and 70km north of Rockhampton.

Mt Larcom, Qld

We filled the car up around the corner at yet another Ampol, which seems to be the only fuel anywhere in Queensland, and visited the pub, which was in the old style but very clean and neat and tidy. We joined a few of the locals for a lemonade before going back to our eerie for the night, bottle of wine in hand.

Lovely bit of sunset light on a random gum tree. Mt Larcom Qld