Left home about 5:40 am and drove to the BP at Blacksoil to meet up with the others. Got there early and had coffee and breakfast. The others got there a bit after 7:15 am but Greg and Debbie couldn't get a park so they headed onto Dalby. We left 15 mins later and caught up with them at Macca's in Dalby. After morning tea we headed off to Roma. Kemsley shredded a tyre on his camper trailer on the way and we stopped while he changed it. Continued onto Roma where we fueled up and had some take away in the loacal park. You could see where the recent floods had got to but most of the water was gone. It was then onto Injune for a quick stop and finally onto the Lonesome camp site where we arrived about 4'ish and set up the tents and camper trailers. We had a shared meal in the evening to minmise cooking and after a few drinks and a chat headed to bed.
Day 2 - Saturday 23/4/11
The bloody Kookaburras were up early and making quite a deal of noise. We continued to lie in bed for awhile until breakfast called. At about 10'ish we went for a drive through the back section of the Lonesome National Park. The road was not in wonderful condition and a few washouts meant we had to detour off the track to get around them. On one of these Greg needed a snatch from Kemsley to over a rough patch. I had been to this section last year but only got to the water tank. This time we went a bit further and then the drama started. I was the fourth and last car in the convoy and I ended up going through the surface of the track and becoming completely stuck - no traction and basically bellied out. This started a long and complicated series of snatch recoveries in which at one stage everyone got bogged at least once. Thankfully we always had at last one car free and after a few hours we managed to escape the boggy conditions and get back to camp. We had a belated lunch and I headed off to the Dawson river crossing down the road from the camp to wash the mud off my MaxTrax which we had used during the recoveries. Then it was a drive up to the lookout as the sun was setting, before heading back to camp, having dinner and a relatively early bedtime after the dramas of the day.
Day 3 - Sunday 24/4/11
The Kookaburras were not as noisy but still annoying. We had breaky and then headed off to look at another section of Lonesome which was a gorge on the Dawson river. We had a close call again when Kemsley broke through the track and I had to snatch him backwards. We then had a fairly hair raising drive back as the track was deteriorating quickly. We then went into Injune for a quick fuel up, and some lunch and used the Parthenium weed wash to get rid of the mud off the tyres so they were balanced again. Then it was off to look at the Beillba section of the National Park where we had a nice river crossing and a drive out to the an old homestead. Then it was home for afternoon tea and a chat, dinner and a few drinks.
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