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| Seqwater dams - information pages from Seqwater. (note recreational brochure downloads) | |||
| Cedar Pocket | Lake Macdonald | Borumba | Cooloolabin |
| Wappa | Poona | Baroon Pocket | Ewen Maddock |
| Somerset | Wivenhoe | Lake Kurwongbah | North Pine |
| Atkinson | Clarendon | Bill Gunn | Enoggera |
| Gold Creek | Lake Manchester | Leslie Harrison | Maroon |
| Moogerah | Wyaralong Dam | Hinze | Little Nerang |
| Nindooinbah | Stopping the spread of Aquatic Weeds | ||
| Upstreampaddle Magazine .... a free online quarterly magazine available as a pdf download. The magazine covers the geographical paddling area of the Guidebook, and also items of interest to the greater paddling community. Published from Autumn 2007 to Spring 2012. Currently publication is on hold due to work commitments. Achives link here. |
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| 12 February 2012 Hinze Dam Hinze Dam has been re-opened, says Seqwater. |
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| The Hinze Dam guidebook page has been updated, that is, the closure of the old dirt road ramp on the Numinbah Valley road, and the opening of the new Western concrete ramp (image below) and carpark, a kilometre closer to Nerang than the old ramp. The water level seems to be 3 or 4 metres higher. There is now access to the dam wall. update: 10 February 2012. | ||||||||||||||
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Wyaralong Dam & Mt Joyce Recreation Park opened July 1, 2011. The image below is a panorama taken from the carpark near the dam wall. It covers from the dam wall, right, to the boat ramp, left, (electric propulsion or paddle power only), with Mt Joyce located about mid-picture. In the SPRING magazine, published 1st September, there will be, hopefully, further photos and information on the eastern and western trailheads, and the Mt Joyce base camp. At the time the photo below was taken, final infrastructure (signage, access roads etc) was not complete. |
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| 05 Jan 2010 ... a new north Queensland canoeing photographic book, by far north correspondent Hans j. Preuss has been added above, and the link above, to the Moreton Island photographic book has been fixed. | ||||||||||||||
| Ipswich or Brisbane canoeists looking for a quiet place to paddle for an hour or so will enjoy the trip upstream from Colleges Crossing (see Guidebook). Even at low tide, it is possible to go upstream for two kilometres to the first rapid. A quick portage and you can go further. | ||||||||||||||
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| The Maroochy River canoe trail was opened Saturday 14 August 2010, with a new launch pontoon at Dunethin Lake. There is a website for the trail, which includes a downloadable pdf map. That trail map has a good table of distances for various paddle trips. | ||||||||||||||
| Lake Weyba is a shallow lake near Noosa. Eenie Creek runs into the lake in the north western part of the lake. (On Upstreampaddle's list of things to do, for the Winter magazine). It is possible to paddle up Eenie Creek for a couple of kilometres to the bridge on Walter Hay Drive. This link is to a Sunshine Coast Daily article about a shark caught at Eenie Creek, near the bridge. At this time it may be appropriate to remind canoeists who are not familiar with local knowledge, that sharks may be found In Lake Cootharaba, Kin Kin Creek, and the upper Noosa River. | ||||||||||||||
| Canoeists intending to launch at the end of Roys Road into the middle section of Pumicestone Passage, be aware of local ill feeling about use of those launch sites and boat ramp. (as per Sunshine Coast Daily article) | ||||||||||||||
| recent reports confirm the presence of salt water crocodiles in the Hervey Bay region, with sightings at Deep Creek on the Western Fraser Coast of a 3.5 to 4.0 metres crocodile, and other regular sightings in the mouth of the Mary River region (River Heads etc.) .... take care sea kayakers. | ||||||||||||||
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| Reminder: Canoeists who have an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Rescue Beacon) need to be aware that the 121.5 MHz beacon ceases to be operational on 1 February 2009. Only the 406MHz beacons will work. | ||||||||||||||
| The Combie Trader II ferry service between Scarborough and Bulwer, Moreton Island has ceased. Micat runs a ferry to Bulwer from its Port of Brisbane Terminal two days a week. | ||||||||||||||
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| 20 August 2008 ... the Guidebook entry for Somerset Dam refers to the Kirksleigh camping area, which is now Lake Somerset Holiday Park. Following last summer's rain, and a top up this year, the lake level is now over 87% full. The grassed over areas below the boat ramps, seen in photographs in the Guidebook entry, are now underwater. Looks great for a visit. | ||||||||||||||
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19 August 2008 ... an email from Mark on Mary River conditions. "Thought I’d let you know a friend and I recently ran the Mary River from Kenilworth to Traveston on the 10th- 12th of August. The depth when we started at Kenilworth (according to BOM) was 0.33 and was about as low as it could be to successfully run the entire river, even then there were some extremely shallow areas. There were a few sections where tree’s had fallen (quite recently) across the river, however the longest portage was about 50 metres and always on very easy flat ground. The hardest one to get through was a very large tree that had fallen across the entire river where there were quite steep sides (3 to 4 metres each side, no portage possible.) We were able to push through / under the tree which only took a couple of minutes of careful manoeuvering." Hope this info is helpful – some pics are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/markrhodes/maryrivertrip |
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Mary River levels may be checked at the Bureau of Metereology River Height Bulletin for the Mary River on their internet pages. (rec. min. level .35 Kenilworth) |
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Upper Clarence River levels may be checked at the Bureau of Metereology River Height Bulletin for the Clarence River on their internet pages |
Information courtesy Clarence River Wilderness Lodge ( http://www.clarenceriver.com/ ) |
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| Paddy's Flat to Hootons (min. river level .65 Tabulam) | ||||||||||||||
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| Tabulam to Yates Crossing | phone or email the link if planning a trip | |||||||||||||
| Brisbane and Mary River conditions. Email me if you have recently paddled any section. | ||||||||||||||
Update: Blue Green Algae level in Clarrie Hall Dam, Doon Doon Creek, via Uki; and access: |
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