Theresa Creek Dam (Clermont)

From leaving Mackay we drove out through part of the Bowen Basin, which is the coal mine belt of Qld. It was incredible the number of coal mines we passed and we even passed villages which were built just to house miners. These villages were all transportable homes which could house over 1800 people!

Our first stop was Theresa Creek Dam just outside of Clermont. What a spot! We had planned to only camp 2 nights there, but ended up staying for 5, with people trying to get us to stay longer and if it wasn’t for the fact we had a long way still to go around Australia we would have stayed! We had a beautiful camp spot right on the edge of the dam, where not only did we have blue sky, we were catching 50+ big red claw yabbies every day – which were beautiful to eat! We had great people camped around us and ended up getting invited to watch the footy (Rabbits v Tigers – our family rivalry match!) up in the lounge room of the caretakers house, who then invited us to go waterskiing with them the next day and also lent us a kayak . So we caught and ate red claw, watched the footy, water-skied, kayaked, fed the lorikeets which visited us every day, flew a kite with our camping neighbour’s granddaughter Shaye, swam, relaxed and sat around the camp fire and got to know the fabulous people camping around us. Aidan and Cody also enjoyed beating our neighbour Sparrow in games! By the way Sparrow Aidan and Cody just wanted to say "GO THE TIGERS!"