Miara CP

Our 6 nights at Baffle Creek was really good. We only managed to catch two mud crabs we could keep but at least we know we can sort of deal with them now. On the last morning, we decided to go fish at the mouth of the river. I almost backed out as I was getting really sick of sitting out in the sun catching nothing. At the last moment I decided to go as I wanted to take a look around the area and ended up catching our only fish-a 49cm grunter. The QLD grunter are a bream-like fish that is not related to WA’s nasty little bait stealers and are considered excellent eating (which it was!). We seasoned it, wrapped it in foil and cooked it on a hot plate over the camp fire pit along with some flat chips.

We are now at Miara Caravan Park an hour away from Baffle Creek and on the Kolan River mouth about 45ks from Bundaberg. The park is on the river and surrounded by cane farms. The nearest farm has a few cattle and two horses who wander the roads and paddocks of cane stubble whenever they like. They all seem to love the cane hay/straw and look as fat as mud. The park has a huge semi permanent section and most owners have erected elaborate protection over their vans and the whole site-they really are amazing. One very simple one with an old van somewhere underneath is for sale at $36,000.

After a one hour drive here on Monday and then setting up and getting the boat and trailer ready, we headed into Bundaberg for some lunch and shopping. We had an ok lunch t the local RSL club, drove round town checking out boat shops for motors and depth sounders, and did our grocery shopping at the largest Woolworths I’ve ever been in. Bundaberg (famous for sugar cane, macadamias, avocados, rum, ginger beer and other yummy things) is a really large and quite pretty city on the Burnette River. We’ll head back into town at least once more to visit a couple of things that were recommended to us.

Yesterday we headed out to do a bit of fishing-it seems the fishing is pretty light on so we were lucky to catch a fair sized bream and flat head which we’ll eat for dinner tonight. Russ is out pumping for yabbies right now so we can use them as bait later this morning.

The sea breeze comes in here and cools things down in the afternoon and it also keeps the sand flies away so I’m happy about that. My poor arms and legs are at least not getting any more bites. I got some non-drowsy anti histamines for the bites in Bundaberg and took them last night-I was non-drowsy until about 3 am!!!!!

We’ll be heading to Maryborough/Hervey Bay from here where we’ll spend about a week, then on to Noosa for another week we reckon