Undara Volcanic National Park, Qld
Mt Surprise The road leading east out of Georgetown has a large flashing sign informing us that there are roadworks for the next 65km. This is of some concern as the large body of workers that form the road gangs have all left town. They got the word that the money for the project had run out so they just up and left, leaving the state of the developmental road a mystery. The next town is Mt Surprise and is only 95km away and all along the first 65km are abandoned graders and rollers and trucks and diggers: left where they finished work at the time. The road itself was in all states of repair from the original very narrow developmental strip of tar and dirt, wrecked, under repair, newly graded, half finished and some parts which were wide smooth boulevard. It was 80kph, or slower, most of the way as quite a lot of oncoming traffic forced us onto the dirt. By the time we reached Mt Surprise we were ready for a break. There was a market in the park selling everything from overpr...