The Queensland 4x4 Club gathered for an early start on Sunday morning, meeting at 7:30 am at the base of the Glass House Mountains for the annual Australia Day Cleanup. The morning was warm and clear, and everyone arrived ready to contribute to restoring one of the region’s most iconic national parks.
The Queensland 4x4 Club Inc or Q.O.R.A (Queensland Off-road Association) as it was first known was formed after a majority vote on the 20th May 1971. By the 17th of August 1971, the club's first constitution was passed and a sticker design had been agreed upon. A $5.00 entry fee was to be paid at the 3rd meeting with an annual fee of $5.00 payable on the 1st of July per year.
With 2019 drawing to a close, the club had had a successful year with the Corroboree in Blackbutt and of course, our members wanted to continue supporting communities and decided that a trip to Stanthorpe was in order. It didn't take long before Ben had spoken with his Mum and she agreed that we could stay at her place. Being the organiser she is we had a date, venue, and bus tour planned all before you could say 'Here comes Santa Claus..."
As we were lucky to get going in time due to late comers? A good day was had.
Well where do we start, I guess at the beginning where it all started from at the Caltex Big Fish northbound on the highway at Caboolture with Rudi & Adri, AJ & Bronwyn, Alex & Lauren, David M & Rob, and visitors Warren & Pauline joining us for the weekend.
Nothing annoys a Possum more than some upstart human shining an L.E.D. light beam in their eyes. Even 50 feet up a tree these invaders of Possum space can upset the natural flow of a quiet Saturday night.
The day started early but not ‘it’s not worth going to bed’ early. We were aiming to arrive at Levuka by 9.30am. The requested arrival time was 10am, so we would have time to set up camp before starting the first drive of the day.
The advertising for Moreton Island says “ Escape the fake”.but after our four day stay I found this this to be totally misleading as we all found it to be “unreal…….”
We arrived at Gordon Country just after lunch on Saturday afternoon. We were instructed to sign in at the office on arrival, so that is what we did. After that we proceeded to camp to find we were the last family to arrive. So, with that comes writing the trip report. The funny thing was Ollie and his family had only arrived 10 minutes before us, but we didn’t see them sign in at the office.
Report: Prado Geoff
Officially our meeting time is 10.30 am Saturday morning in Bundaberg at a secret location. However many members have chosen to drive up Friday, even this early in the weekend we have three nominees for “froggy awards” or should that be “forgets awards”.
We’ve had a pretty good autumn really. There’s been plenty of rain and the Scenic Rim is greener than usual for this time of year. That has extended over the range and throughout the Southern Downs. That is, except for The Springs, just south of Warwick. It’s dry here and the tracks are splitting in layers as you drive over them. So what was normally easy is now eventful. What was hard is now extreme and un-drivable.
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