Friday 15th August.
After making a false start from Theodore I realised after reaching the edge of town that it would be a good idea to refill with diesel before we tackled the Leichardt Highway. We are now heading south again, stopped to boil the kettle at Taroom, a small town which was also very badly effected by the floods in 2010. There is a most unusual flood level marker erected beside the river on the edge of town. This marker, one of a series of such markers between here and Theodore.
The discs in the middle of this photo indicate the 2010 flood level, with the top set indicating the 1890 floods, 8.7 metres, an Australian record. The flood levels were so bad in this area during 2010 that at one stage the Leichardt Highway was cut for a period of three weeks.
Continuing on the Leichardt Highway we reached Miles, a fair sized town on the junction of the Warrego Highway. The Warrego extends south east to Toowoomba via Dalby.
Miles boasts a nice large rest area amongst the trees beside the river. We carefully chose a spot to camp here as we have just encountered our first rain drops for about 14 weeks and the forecast is for heavy rain over the next two or three days. In view of the foregoing concerning floods in this area we have no desire to float away in the middle of the night so our selected site is well above the river level.
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