A short drive to start the day, the 56km into Biloela where we set up camp at the Queensland Heritage Park where they offer caravan and motor home camping for 48 hours for $10 a night. It's well set up at the moment as because of Covid they are only using every second site. It would be a bit crowded when full.
Once set up we drove into town to do some grocery shopping and have lunch. But Oh No!! It's Sunday and most places are closed. After a wander around town, we eventually ate at the only food stall open back at the shopping centre - a kebab shop.
MT SCORIA CONSERVATION PARK
Mount Scoria – musical mountain
Mount Scoria rises up from the surrounding plain, a single and spectacular highlight against an otherwise flat landscape. Across its peak, multi-sided rocks are regimented into large vertical and semi-vertical pillars or columns, blunt at the top as if they’d been cropped. Not only odd in shape, the columns are also unique for the sound they make when struck.
Still standing tall after 25 million years, Scoria’s exceptional staying power is due to the hard volcanic rock that lay at the core, exposed only after the softer surface had weathered away.
The work of a small volcano, the mountain is actually a basalt plug and the dramatic, angular-shaped rocks, the result of the cooling process. The six-sided columns cooled slowly and evenly, while the five, seven, or eight-sided columns cooled much faster and erratically.
