Clermont Qld July 17, 2015
Clermont Qld July 17, 2015 We wakeup this morning to find thick ice on the car and a frigid breeze blowing. Not wanting to stay a moment longer we were packed and gone by 830 and heading to Injune, north of Roma which we reached in just an hour or so. We spent the next few hours skirting around the base of the Great Dividing Range escarpment, and started looking for an early lunch at Rolleston, which proved to be little more than a flea-bight and so on to Springsure, where we at least were able to feed the car, if not ourselves. We pushed on up through to Emerald and settled for a coffee and chicken wrap at a large fast-food outlet. After a suitable rest reading the Central Qld News, we hit the last leg of our day’s run up to Clermont, which turns out to be off the highway and a quiet little place. Well, it looks quiet but a bit of a poke around reveals plenty of housing development. They have a really nice lagoon in town called Hoods Lagoon, complete with bridge and founta...