Glebe Weir

The Glebe Weird Mob

We visited Glebe Weir (near Taroom in central Queensland) during our first trip around Australia in 2012. The lure of water-side camping with Saratoga, Yellow Belly, abundant bird life, flushing toilets, and powered sites all for $7/night per van drew us back again this trip.

Unfortunately despite hours out on the water casting spinner baits, walking the dog, jiggling small hard body divers, and even resorting to smelly bait - not a bump or bite was felt.  Luckily the eagles, whistling kites, pelicans, cormorants, ospreys, azure kingfishers, herons, ducks, swallows and cheeky fly catchers kept us amused whilst flogging the water to a foam during our fruitless fishing expeditions. Our red-claw efforts fared no better than our fishing – “you should have been here last month “was the frequent quote from the locals! Not sure why the fishing was so poor but perhaps the full moon and muddy water had something to do with it?

Our solar system neighbours -  Moon and Mars

Talking about moons – while we were camped here the longest total eclipse this century occurred. Apparently the next one is 105 years from now in the Northern hemisphere – did a bit a  mental math and came to the conclusion that I might miss that one - so set the alarm clock for 4:30 AM and donned my coat and beanie to photograph the red  moon.  Despite researching “how to photograph” the moon my resultant photos were a little disappointing with all the photos being a little blurry.  I did the calcs and realised that at my slow 10 second shutter speed the moon moved about 2.5 mins during the shot – enough to perhaps blur the shot (that’s my excuse!).  But was well worth getting out of bed - as the  night sky in the middle of the bush miles from any light pollution is a pretty special on any night and to watch the total eclipse red moon disappear into sunrise was better than listening to Molly (and Linda) snoring.

Packing up the tinny

Since we were here last time the local Banana Shire (good name for a Queensland town 😊😊)  has added a water filtration system for drinking water at the camp – so now a perfect (if the fish came back) bush camp site. Understandably very busy this time of year – but all grey nomads here - so friendly, happy campers.

If you’re thinking of coming this way - a week at Glebe Weir is a great way to spend some time – you might even catch one of those elusive fish 😊.

Made a short video link is HERE (watch out for the drone attacking Galahs).