The Lynd

 

Having reached the Lynd junction, where the road from Hughenden meets the Gregory Development Road, we turned right and headed for Greenvale. Back a few decades Greenvale was a bustling mining town, the mine producing copper amongst other metal ore. Today the town is having a bit of a resurgence with various projects going ahead in the area. Once empty houses are now filling up and the school apparently has 30 students, good to see this pretty little town coming back to life.

We decided to do a loop around the area surrounding Greenvale, Din had worked and lived at Bluerange Station up the road, in another life, and wanted to check it out, so off we went.

The
Burdekin River came into view and with it, the narrow, grid type bridge, made out of old railway lines. On crossing the bridge the entrance to Bluerange Station was on our left. Spending a little time checking out the station buildings in the distance, we then turned around and headed up a track along the eroded river bank. Some distance up, a suitable camp spot presented itself to us, we stopped and set up.

Continuing on in the morning we passed a few waterholes and dams, the summer rains had been kind and most depressions had water in them, a rare thing in these parts.

 Passing by Camel Creek Station, we waved an unnoticed hello, a friends family own the station.

 A fork in the road soon came up, left, to continue the loop, or right to go out to a national park on the Burdekin River. The right turn won the debate and we turned to explore.

Girringun National Park includes a former cattle station, now given over to the National Parks. The road or should I say track was rough and crossed a few shallow running creeks, just how we like it. Having had a good look around, we decided to head back to our original journey.

Valley of the Lagoons was next, this station sits in a beautiful valley, as the name suggests, with water filled lagoons dotted amongst it

. Picturesque views abound as you travel the road through the property. Also large signs, warning if caught camping on the property, you would be in trouble. As usual, some inconsiderate, single minded, yobbos have obviously stuffed up the chances of all, by doing the wrong thing. We always respect the environment we stay in and often clean up after others, leaving no trace we were there at all. That is the way it should be for all enjoying this vast, beautiful land.

Our loop nearly completed, we headed out to the main road and back to Greenvale, where we were due to meet a couple of friends travelling through.