Shoulders of an Ant: Apple Tree Creek-Sharon Gorge

Treated ourselves to a delicious breakfast of fried mushys, tomato and noodles as we had the full use of a BBQ at Apple Tree Creek campsite. We also spent part of the morning organising and reorganising the panniers so that hopefully we open less panniers at night. We are really starting to get into the groove now of how things work again and there isn't as much stress anymore.

The Isis highway was a particularly bad road for riding on. It was super busy and there was no should what so ever! We asked a lady about 10 k's in how we could get off the highway asap she suggested to go through South Kolan and avoid Bundaberg all together. Sounds good!

About another 15 k along we stop at a rest area so we could feast on our delicious pineapple from Nikenbah markets. After the feast a man name Graham came over and gave us a really good (if not too intensive) description of all the ride north til Cairns on the Bruce Highway. He let us know all the good rest stops and told us that the road between Rockhampton and Mackay is a good road - we were going to catch the bus. Now it seems Jake will get his way and we will ride.

We turned of to South Kolan not long after and had to cross over the Burnett River. For those of you who read the new you know that recently central Queensland experienced really bad floods. These photos really do not do justice of the extant that it looked like a huge bulldozer came through the landscape. The water must have rose over 20 metres high to be able to do the devastation we saw!

Burnett river crossing South Kolan

Even the trees to my right had debris in the highest branches

Tonight we are staying just outside Bundaberg in a little town called Sharon. Tomorrow will be a rest day so we can restock.