Moved from Murgon to Woolooga, only ~65km toward Gympie.
The camp is being hosted at Brooyah Station, a large property just a short distance north of Woolooga on the Bauple-Woolooga Rd.
What a great place! Plenty of space, great views with facilities and not far to the flood affected farms. Brooyah homestead is on high ground and was not flooded. Offering the place to BlazeAid is very generous and the camp has been running here since February this year.
Power, water, hot showers, laundry with machine and dryer, also a vacant house for cooking that has a balcony overlooking a private lake, fantastic.
Just a small group of volunteers forming 2 teams of three are going out each day. Very comfy.
The Mary River is notorious for flooding, seven times just recently, apparently. Relocating a fence a bit higher up the river bank required hacking a track through heavy undergrowth. Carrying everything, tools, wire, pickets and drinking water it felt a bit like Himalayan Sherpas looking for Dr Livingston and finding Apocalypse Now. Hmm, mixing movies?
Did some regular farm work as well like ripping up and winding up fallen mud covered wire and posts and clearing curtains. Curtains as one farm hand described the long grass that is left draping over the wire on low lying fences after the water recedes. Generally whacking the wire with a stick will dislodge most of the grass and any snakes.
