Macintyre River - On the road to Yelarbon

This was our second night stop on our short western rivers getaway - a free camp on the bank of the Macintyre River at the Rainbow Camping Reserve. The Macintyre River forms the border between Qld and NSW and splits into the Dumaresq River a little further east from where we were camped.

We stayed the previous night near Condamine and headed south via Goondiwindi. There had been significant rains in the previous weeks and most of the roads still had flood warning signs out as the flood waters drained south via our main river systems. It was great to see all the water holes filled and so much green!

We setup camp near the river and went for a swim as it was a warm day - though the nights were very cool for this time of year! The river was still muddy from the floods - as were the banks. Very muddy and slippery. In fact we came out looking like we had a mud bath - sorry no photos!

There wasn't an adequate kayak launch spot along this section of the river given the newly deposited mud, so we decided to try our new secret bait for freshwater crayfish. The result was very positive with a lovely catch of blue crayfish to take home for an Australia Day cook up.