Miriam Vale

We were stuck in Miriam Vale for another day and night, punctuated by a trip up to Gladstone to a nice beach where we went for a walk.

We took a trip up the road in the morning of the first day to find the road still flooded, though much less than previously, and 4 wheel drives were getting through. But the road was still but further up.

With accommodation all taken in "The Vale" a lot of people were just camping out on the road by the flood and having barbies and so on whilst the water receded.

Later on we went up again to find the first flood had gone leaving no trace whatsoever. We drove hopefully up the road but our hopes were shattered several km later when we found the proverbial second flood was still 80cm over the road and though the heavy people were getting through we stood no chance.

There were those who were talking about more rain to come so we were on the edges of the seats we weren't sitting on as we slept, listening for the rain and hoping that we'd get through the next day.