Borumba Dam Deer Park QLD

Well yet another week over and it saw Ilana and I pack up the car and head off towards Imbil, North West of Brisbane to Borumba Dam and Deer Park. The drive is approximately 2 hrs from Brisbane. The deer park is owned and run by Col and Rosa Huddy. The Deer Park has 5 Different types of Accommodation options. Deluxe Cabin, Budget Cabin On Site Vans, Powered Sites and Camping. Our Camping site was appropriately called Goanna Gully. Cost for camping was only $10.00 per night per person. Steve gives quite an insightful commentary on the four different types of deer they have at the park. The kiosk offers Canoe / Kayak hire. The Deer Park offers a Childrens Playground as well. Fire wood is for sale by the crate or the wheel barrow load. Our site was located by the swimming hole (therefore very busy traffic area). The Park offers a large communal cooking area with gas appliances and a large projection screen television for those must not miss footy games. There are some bush ticks currently present, one found my head a nice place to dig into, but they are not poisionous. A short drive up the road will lead to Borumba Dam face, and an area where people can launch there water craft. We noticed another camp site on the way up to the Dam wall. It was much smaller than the Deer Park, but there were not as many kids there due to not having the amenities for children.

Kookie

One of Australia's most famous birds, the Native Australian Kingfisher,

or The kookaburra is the largest kingfisher. The laughing kookaburra has a short thick body with a very large head with a dark eye streak. Their colourings are mainly brown with black markings on top with a creamy whit underbelly and head, and "mottled" blue patch on their wings. They are famous for their laughing calls which usually occur at dawn and dusk and is in fact the kookaburra "marking out" its territory