With a name like Banana, just had to stop here for the night. Anyway back to Mundubbera - its a fruit and grape growing region and the mandarin picking is just about to start. There were about 5 vans/tents in the whole campground, but in a month they'll be full for the ensuing 6 months with fruitpickers. On the 5th we cycled all the town in the morning - took about 15 mins and one advantage was that we could check the price of diesel at both gas stations. We're paying just over !.50 per litre - but there is no road tax. The Burnett River is just south of the town and the bridge is 18meters above the river's normal level. In January, the river went over the bridge, and there's still gravel on the
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