Moore Park Beach

 8 - 10 March 2025

We waited anxiously, with everyone else in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales, to see what Tropical Cyclone Alfred would do. By Saturday morning, the cyclone was downgraded to a Tropical Low and was impacting areas from the Sunshine Coast to Coffs Harbour with heavy rainfall and damaging winds. It was time to go north and away from the area, and hopefully, to some better weather.

We left Chinchilla with a bit of a plan - maybe Childers or Moore Park Beach. Along the way we stopped for a cuppa at Proston and then continued on. We stopped for lunch at Ban Ban Springs and then made the decision to go to Moore Park Beach. There was rain forecast, but there was everywhere anyway.

After picking up some supplies in Gin Gin, we booked a site at and made our way to Moore Park Beach for two nights, maybe three, depending on the weather. We were given a nice site just back from the beach. We walked on the beach and explored the nearby "Duckpond". Mick was pleased to see a few new birds for the trip. There was a bit of rain overnight, but nothing to worry about. 

The weather was good when we arrived
but soon turned nasty

We spent the morning again walking along the beach and the checking out the pond, when the weather forecast turned nasty - potential severe thunderstorms. We managed to stay mostly out of the rain during the afternoon but our plan to walk to the local Bowling Club for dinner turned into a short drive there. It was raining quite heavily when we returned, but still not too drastic.

During the night, however, the storm raged - and the wind blew the rain straight at the side of the trailer tent. We didn't realise at the time, but it was so strong that water was coming in through the window zippers. We woke, after a somewhat sleepless night, to water all through the inside of the camper and all we could do was lay down towels to try to soak some of it up, as it was still raining heavily. We knew we would have to pack up and leave for somewhere drier and fortunately there was a short break in the weather during which we readied ourselves to leave.

We had received an email from the park management regarding possible flooding on the road to Bundaberg, but weren't sure what that meant to us as we were heading north. We called into the office and a fellow camper who had left a about 1/2 hour before us had called to say she had driven through without any issue. We hoped that it would be the same for us as, if the road was flooded, the was no other way out.

There was heaps of water around, with many spots where there was water across part of the road, so we took it easy. There was one creek causeway that had water over it, but it was only a few centimetres deep, so still safe to cross. We made it into Gin Gin without incident and stopped to shop again before going north along the Bruce Highway.