Whilst driving down to Bris to pick up the new Camper Trailer, we decided to go the back way from Rockhampton down and out to Miles, and back into Toowoomba via Chinchilla. This turned out to be a great idea, the roads were clear and in good condition, and we have a very trouble free run. Well, apart from rounding a corner to find a cow standing in the middle of the highway, looking at us. I'm not sure who got the bigger fright.
All of QLD had copped a LOT of rain over the past week, and everywhere we went the rivers had broken their banks are were in flood. Unfortunately the only pictures we took was at Theodore when we stopped for a driver change. It's a shame that you don't get a sense of scale in these photos, but that river is currently a couple of metres over the normal council rest area, which itself is ~1m above the normal river "high water" level. It's not even the depth so much, as the width that the rivers run to when they break their bank. Looking at the tree lines, that river is normally ~5m wide. As shown there, it would be closer to 50m wide. A truly awe-inspiring volume of water.
In other spots the rivers were only a foot below the bridges, and there were entire trees carried away, only to be left high and dry in the branches of sturdier trees as a reminder.
As it turns out, we were actually very lucky with the timing of our run. We drove through water over the highway between Miles and Chinchilla, but it was only 1'-2' deep at the most. When we arrive in TWB, we discovered that the previous day had seen the highway closed all day, due to the depth of water over the road. While we stayed in TWB, the rain continued to fall out west, so the rivers would only have kept rising.
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