Queensland continued
Rockhampton to Cooktown Rockhampton ~ June 29 - July 4 It’s a long way from Dalby to Rockhampton. We try not to drive more than 300 kms a day so this trip of six and a quarter hours meant a stop at Theodore in a camp at the showgrounds for a small fee collected by a lady who came around with her QR code and a purse. Theodore was established in the 1920s as part of Queensland Premier Ted Theodore's ambitious Dawson River Irrigation Scheme which failed to eventuate. It was originally known as Castle Creek, but that name is now used by another locality in the area. The shifting black soil of this part of the country causes a thing apparently known as porpoising. The undulations in the highway were incredible. We were on the Leichhardt Highway and it went on for miles and miles, up and down. Not very comfortable driving with a caravan tagging along behind - also going up and down. There was carnage in the caravan after we stopped, with the keys normally he...