After leaving our camp site at Dawson River we travelled through Moura to a town called "Banana" - but no bananas here at all! It was named after a steer many years ago that used to round up wild bush cattle and bring them back into the yards all by itself. After Banana where we refuelled (Diesel $1.469) we headed to Biloela where we had a conversation with a chap who works at the local coal mine and is thinking about travelling as we are doing. Leaving Biloela we headed south to a stop called Coominglah Range, which is on top of a mountain top 20kms north of Monto. Here we had the place to ourselves with great views over the valley below. We did however meet a chap from the south coast of NSW who was travelling up towards Mission Beach to do some building work there and a semi-trailer driver from Atherton who was taking some huge blocks of marble, which were cut from the ground at Chilligoe, down to Brisbane. Vodafone Mobile & Internet had no coverage here at all, but Telstra coverage was poor. Some Digital TV was available too.Wednesday, September 21, 2011
MONTO
After leaving our camp site at Dawson River we travelled through Moura to a town called "Banana" - but no bananas here at all! It was named after a steer many years ago that used to round up wild bush cattle and bring them back into the yards all by itself. After Banana where we refuelled (Diesel $1.469) we headed to Biloela where we had a conversation with a chap who works at the local coal mine and is thinking about travelling as we are doing. Leaving Biloela we headed south to a stop called Coominglah Range, which is on top of a mountain top 20kms north of Monto. Here we had the place to ourselves with great views over the valley below. We did however meet a chap from the south coast of NSW who was travelling up towards Mission Beach to do some building work there and a semi-trailer driver from Atherton who was taking some huge blocks of marble, which were cut from the ground at Chilligoe, down to Brisbane. Vodafone Mobile & Internet had no coverage here at all, but Telstra coverage was poor. Some Digital TV was available too.
