Wild River Caravan Park

 

 Herberton Wild River Caravan Park

This caravan park is in a bush setting on the outskirts of Herberton in North Queensland.

 

 With new management in place, they have a program to level several sites for both caravans and camping.

Here you are not crammed in like sardines with several large and open sites, some with shade and some with bush gardens on the outside of the awning.

 

This park is quiet with very little road noise and a number of Australian native animals visiting every day.

There are two amenities blocks and a laundry with both washers and driers

There is also a camp kitchen with several choices for cooking and a television to watch while you cook

There is also a camp fire with a well stocked wood pile, particularly nice in the winter time but the summer time here doesn't get very hot.

I would recommend this park because of the quiet nature, amenities, proximity to major shopping center, the friendly nature of the management team and the natural bush beauty.

Wild River Caravan Park, Herberton, Queensland

 

 

Thornborough, Kingsborough and Mt. Mulligan

On Sunday the 6th I did a day trip to these three localities, localities because most of what was once there is now gone.

My main interest was Thornborough, because my paternal great grand mother, Emily DAVIS (nee CHAPPEL) is buried there.

Thornborough Cemetery

Thronborough is 29km north of Dimbulah on the road to Mt. Mulligan.

I wasn't expecting to find Emily's grave and wasn't disappointed when I didn't, after all she died 20th of September, 1880, and 14 days short of 135 years, is a long time for a headstone to survive, but there are 24 headstones in the cemetery.



After Thornborough I turned east for 6km to the Tyrconnell mine.

This mine is a popular place for visitors.

500m east of this mine is the Kingsborough Cemetery where there are only 4 headstones surviving.

Then it was back to the road junction at Thornborough and then 29km north to Mt. Mulligan.

The sports oval

Harris Street

Part of the old mine

Another view of the mine

All the roads just out of Dimbulah to these localities are gravel and while you could take a caravan as far as Thornborough, camping is not currently allowed in any of these places.

For anyone who is interested in the history of this country the trip is well worth the drive.

Ravenswood

Went to Ravenswood for a week, and stayed for three weeks.

The area around Ravenswood is very dry and one often wonders how anything survives in the place.







                                   Ravenswood is full of history, a lot of it in ruins.

                                                                      
                                                                      The whole of Ravenswood is heritage listed, so if you find a bolt or a nut you can't take it, yet here are still people getting around with metal detectors and shovels. After years of pilfering there isn't anything left to take.

From the 1860's to about 1915 they dug holes everywhere and they needed lots of steam to run the mills, hence all the chimneys and no trees.

 

I spent endless hours wandering around the old mine sites and old houses, or hat remains of them, where people worked and lived.