The NSW/Queensland Border: Cameron's One Ton Post - Mungindi, NSW
Mungindi, NSW: John Brewer Cameron planted this post here in 1882, to mark the transition point of the NSW/Queensland border from the 29th parallel to the Barwon/Macintyre/Dumaresq rivers.
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The One Ton Post - QLD/NSW survey point
The one time post is a survey point located on the NSW/QLD border
A drive around Mungindi
A drive around Mungindi
Cameron Corner - The Borders of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia
There's something magical and uniquely Australian about watching the sunrise over the dog fence at Cameron Corner.
Corner Country, as this area is fondly known, is where the borders of New South Wales,Queensland and South Australia meet.
Named in honor of John Cameron who surveyed the border between New South Wales and Queensland in 1880.
Today this area is one of the most visited outback locations in Australia.
Queensland / New South Wales border crossing
Such a letdown, travelled through smaller towns with better welcome and goodbye signs than this. QLD and NSW Tourism should be ashamed of themselves. Pick up your game, put in a rest top in with bins and much better signage. This is gods country, make it look like it..
Parallel 29 and the One Ton Post part 1
Always fascinated with the state borders, saw the southern border of Queensland, and was interested in the ‘squiggly bit’, this was a road I had not traveled near before (why was it squiggle?). I had originally planned to tackle the prime objective first, leaving the bitumen roads to travel home. But the season broke, and after waiting for clearing weather, decided to do the black top roads first hoping the clearing weather would allow me to travel the dirt roads back home later on.
The first day I traveled to Wentworth, camping at lock ten, the same camp we used for the 'Chain of Ponds Odyssey'. The weather was gloomy and so was I.
I wanted to camp the second night on grass, after my first night in the river mud at Wentworth, so I went back to Lake Cargelligo and camped in the caravan park. I was feeling much better now and after a good night’s rest was getting back into the swing of things.
After crossing the Great Dividing Range came into Coffs Harbour, the traffic was horrendous. Nice place to visit, great views, planned to camp in the park overlooking the bay, found a burnt out car, I was not impressed. I found another spot, not happy. The night was coming on now and it was getting dark, my camping guide was no help, so I tried finding nearby Caravan Park in my GPS. Here I was, on the Bruce Highway, two lanes, driving at night, trying to follow directions to a place I did not know how to get to, or even how far away it was. I missed the GPS’s first choice, not being in the right hand lane to turn off, continuing on I concentrated, and when ‘she’ said to turn, I turned; I had no idea where I was going. Soon I came to a dead end road, boom gate in front of me, thank God. I went in saw the lady, ignoring the closed sign, said “can I stop here tonight, If I can’t I’m camping at this bloody boom gate”, she said “come on in luv, find a place down the end, you look like you’ve had a rough day”. I was way down the back by the creek, and in the morning found out I was at Sapphire Beach a glorious spot, and I had slept within one hundred meters, no wonder I could hear the surf running all though the night. In the morning I also saw some of the biggest caravans I have ever seen filling the park.
After this pleasant park stay, I decided to try another further up the coast, Broken Bay, just down from Byron Bay. After paying thirty three dollars for unpowered site (worth every penny, she said), a quiet spot, I said, “way down the back”. Don’t worry she said “there is no one else back there”, famous last words. All went well, I watched the moon rise (I still don’t know why) turning in about eight. In comes two overseas female backpackers, chatter, chatter, tap, tap, tap, their small tent goes up then the go to the camp kitchen (feature of caravan parks in the region), and proceed to have their evening meal, coming back to the tent about ten, for the night. All okay so far, they will settle soon and it will be quiet, my mistake. They had got chatting to some boys in the camp kitchen, and now the boys came over, with their car to park next to the girls. About eleven o’clock, the ‘chatting’ was still going on, getting louder, the boys wanted to get it on with the backpackers, but the girls would have none of this. The boys then opened the boot of the car, so they could play some ‘tunes’, this made my blood boil, so I arose from my swag to face the recalcitrates, It was then I realised they were not only close, they had set up their tent about three meters away from my car. So much for the park staff’s “there is no one else back there” comment, I yelled at the boys (about 18 year olds), and requested they “keep the f**king noise down, as I “had a long drive ahead of me tomorrow”. This (possibly thinking me a bit crazy) did the trick for short while. I fell asleep. Awoken around one thirty with loud laughter, these boys were still trying to ‘pull’ the two female backpackers. I had had enough; I slid down (lucky I sleep in the back on my car), put the keys in and drove out to the boom gate, put in my code, and spent the rest of the night in the caravan waiting area car park. I was awoken at day break by surfers going for their morning ritual surf; the car park was now full. I looked back up the hill in the caravan park (not far away), the boy’s car was still parked next to the girl’s tent, and all was quiet, perhaps they got lucky after all. I was tempted to give them a visit, but no, I backed up and drove away.
In my visit to Byron Bay and the Eastern most point on the Australian mainland I was struck by the full spectrum of society, from the very dirty flower children (all in their forties), in the caravan park, ramshackle arrangements’ of tents and flower painted combies. To the flashing of obvious wealth, in the houses, on the one way loop road that runs around the cliff’s of the headland, that forms the most easterly point.
Parallel 29 and the One Ton Post part 2
Always fascinated with the state borders, saw the southern border of Queensland, and was interested in the ‘squiggly bit’, this was a road I had not travelled near before (why was it squiggle?). I had originally planned to tackle the prime objective first, leaving the bitumen roads to travel home. But the season broke, and after waiting for clearing weather, decided to do the black top roads first hoping the clearing weather would allow me to travel the dirt roads back home later on.
The GPS, to its credit got me into Tweed Heads and Coolangatta the twin towns on the New South Wales and Queensland border, where the border meets the sea. This was my starting point for my endeavour to follow this border all the way back to South Australia. Following the ‘squiggly bit’, which meets the coast at longitude twenty eight at Point Danger, then follow from Mungindi the straight bit on the longitude (parallel) twenty nine, to Cameron’s Corner.
I didn’t quite know what to expect of Nimbin, my overall impression was of just a very tired, dirty and somewhat sad little town. Yes the ‘flower’ people are there, but there are far more of them at Byron Bay, perhaps they have outgrown little Nimbin, being, as it is, far away from the coast and the surf. I honestly think most visitors (me included) just walk up and down the one main street, waiting for something (I don’t know what) to happen, the sad part is nothing ever does, it’s just a town. All the quirky hand painted shop signs, the tie dyed scarfs, the caftans and neglected footpaths just make this little tourist town a bit forlorn and dirty, perhaps the inhabitants are too ‘mellow’ to care, I hope this is, in a way true.
The camps at ‘Sheepwash Creek’ and ‘Bald Rock’ were the tops of the trip, classical good, even to the extent of providing firewood, Jim! Come tea time, a little man came around Bald Rock campground towing a trailer loaded up with timber off cuts, loading up the heap next to each campsite. The birdlife was prolific at both campsites and all my fellow campers at both these sites, behaved very well and a quiet night was had by all, Broken Bay must have been a one off.
Was going to camp at Walgett, didn’t look too good, so continued on to ‘Mays Bend’ near Bourke, I was very tired that night.
To lighten things up when travelling from Bourke to Tibooburra I noticed there were a lot of grids, so I decided to film each grid with a different fluffy animal (given to me be viewers) at each grid. My only hope was I had enough grids for each animal to take pride of place. This kept me busy and staved off fatigue during this long boring drive. The final shot with all the animals in place for the final grid was quite an accomplishment especially when one considers how I had to look over all my guests as they sat lined up on the dash for the final shot.
This film started out with a ‘black cloud’ hanging over it, for the first three days, my main pervading thought was “why the hell am I doing this”. In the end I still regard this trip as a success, it rekindled the light deep within me to continue to travel and to film my trips, and I think you will agree, the last four trips to come are some of my best.
Australia-border river between NSW, and Victoria 5/2017.
Mungindi Orange.wmv
The pet shoot was canceled due to the stormy weather for the event ,however the sun came up and people came to the event..
However the pet foto shoot is still happening at a local pet shop.
Tug of war a candidate is interested for the 26th November Rope pulling day in Brisbane.
New South Wales & Queensland State Border at Tweed Heads in 4K
I'm standing right next to the boarder at Tweed Heads when i took this video.
Mungindi till I die
3 months in the Australian outback with some mates. Mungindi till i die MoFo's!
Music Credits to: Vance Joy- Riptide. Bag Radiers- Shooting Star. Epeak- Be Careful. C2C-Down the Road.
Yanchep Lagoon Area Master Plan
Yanchep Lagoon Area Master Plan
NSW Victoria Australia Border Crossing 27th November 2018
sandgreens #6 Mungindi
A quick tour of Mungindi Golf Club.
JESSICA IRWIN PHOTOGRAPHING IN MUNGINDI NSW
First video to test out the Go Pro flying machine. Filmed by Chris Irwin and music by Steve Balbi. More information on JESSICA is available at jessicairwin.com.au
Hermidale shooting up the kitchen
Didn't that kick
Mungindi Show 2017
Annual Show of a great little town on the Border of NSW and QLD with a big heart and a wonderful warm community!
Mungindi Local Court
General information about Mungindi Local Court and the local area.
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Transcript:
This video is brought to you by Sydney Criminal Lawyers®. Outstanding results and fixed fees in all New South Wales courts. Mungindi is a small town on the border of New South Wales and Queensland. It straddles the Barwon River, and though it has a New South Wales postcode technically a portion of the town is located in Queensland. The Mungindi court house is situated on St. George Street on the southern side of the Barwon River. Mungindi is around nine hours drive from Sydney. The closest regional centre for public transport connections is Maury.