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Murgon

 

A memorial was held today for the 20 people lost in the Toowoomba floods in the Lockyer Valley (3 still missing), exactly a year ago.  We drove over the Bjelke Petersen dam, it’s a huge amount of water, really beautiful today.  It must have been terrifying when a wall of water crashed over the whole area.

 

Yesterday all the locals were complaining about the heat, where we bush camped in Murgon, and talking about how different it was during the floods a year ago.  We were lovely and cool in our mozzy net tent, in a shady woodland campsite with parrots everywhere.