Calliope Rocky Duaringa & Bedford Weir

After leaving 1770 we planned a few days free camping till we could get into our next booking, Calliope has a great free camp on the river bank, it's just a little west of Gladstone, very pretty.

The next night was spent at Duaringa which is 70k's north of Rockhampton.

Duaringa is probably the smallest town I have seen in a long time, the free camp is heavily used though and has plenty of flat ground, even if it is red dirt.

The next day we headed to Bedford Weir, this is 27k's from Blackwater, a couple stay there as caretakers for a coin donation, the facilities are good with big hot showers, the Weir  is quite large an the evidence of the last floods can be seen.

We have come across these birds over the last few days, they have the most amazing blue around their eye's and their backs are a shiny olive green I have to get that Australian Bird Book so I can put a name to these new sightings.