An early walk this morning around the campsite and then it was back on the Sculpture trail towards Jericho. Just near where we were camped there was an old boiler that had us puzzled as to what it might have been used for. We had asked the lady last night, when she came around to collect camp fees, but she didn't know. It remains a mystery.
The first section of the trail from Aramac to Lake Dunn was bitumen but today we're on gravel, quite good gravel though. Once again the sculptures were pretty amazing and we even found Wally.
It's interesting how the countryside changes as you travel through. At one section there were termite hills everywhere.
We had decided on lunch at Jericho, but although they had a nice neat little park there were no shops to be found that could provide lunch, not even a coffee.
The next option was Alpha which proved almost as problematic. The bakery had just run out of pies and their coffee machine was broken. The golf club was suggested but when we found it there was no one in sight. Back to town to the servo where we did end up with a wrap. No coffee though.
Camp tonight was at Bogantungan in a park near the railway station. Quite a lot of people here already but we found room for the two of us to set up. Went for a walk along the railway line to the railway bridge which replaced the previous bridge responsible for Queensland's worst train crash.
The disaster occurred at 2:30am on February 26, 1960 when the train was passing over the bridge above the flooded Medway Creek. The pylons of the bridge had been severely damaged by the impact from a 12-tonne gum tree that had been swept downstream in the floodwaters. As the train crossed the creek, the bridge collapsed causing the two steam locomotives and three sleeping cars to fall 7.6 metres into the flooded creek. Seven people were killed including the driver, the fireman and a conductor as well as four passengers, including two children. Another 43 people were injured in the accident. A special train was organised to travel to the accident scene to assist. Emerald doctor, Charles Whitchurch, and a flying doctor from Mount Isa attended the scene.
There's a nice little memorial to the disaster at the station.
