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Lake Monduran Qld

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Got up early and took the camera for a walk, here's a few snaps: Artists impression of where we are View from lookout - not much of a view actually Fortunately, a rematch this morning was cancelled due to rain, so my title as output champion is secure! The dam, 'Fred Haigh', and the lake of the Blog title Truck and van. An irrigation channel that they fill up from the dam and send down the country for mile. Instead of dire warnings all over the place, they should publish the time and open it up as the worlds biggest water slide

Lake Monduran Qld

Instead of bolting from Kingaroy at 9am when the car service was finished, we went and got fuel and decided to give the info centre / museum a look. The museum is actually quite good, obviously with a load of peanut gallery stuff, but lots of other interesting bits and pieces as well. Oddly enough, not one word about Joh. I asked the attendants and they were quite excited about the subject; it seems that  they and others are quite keen but the committee that runs the info / museum are dead set against it. I wished them well in their upcoming endeavours to stack the committee over the next few years and overthrow them. Politics! It's a bleeding museum for the sake of pete. Enough already, we hitched up and took a hike. Our hike took us up through Murgon, Biggennden, and then Gin Gin, which is back out on the Bruce. We finally decided that Lake Monduran needed our patronage and so here we are. The lake is formed by a dam called the Fred Haigh. One thing about Queensland; they seem...