Upper Cooyar Creek

Leg 2. On the second leg of our "source to sea" journey along the Brisbane River, we trek along Cooyar Creek from the boundary of the Bunya Mountains National Park to the Cooyar Township. Along the way we talk to farmers with multi-generational perspectives on cattle raising in the beautiful Upper Cooyar area, and hear their views on the changing weather and its impact on water levels in Cooyar creek.

At the site of a former “one room school” we contemplate the challenges of educating rural children in the early 1900s. We stop at a camping reserve, gazetted 1878, and discuss its historical use and relevance to livestock droving and the colonial-era “Butcher’s Track” from Dalby to Brisbane. We hear the story of a day in 1979 when cows fell through the ice of Cooyar Creek and perished, and we search for the lost quarry of Cooyar Creek, once hyped as one of the Commonwealth’s finest sources of Blue Granite. The walk finishes at the boundary of the Cooyar township.

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