Proserpine River

Running beside camp Kanga is the headwaters of the Proserpine River. Here it is a burbling brook not more than 30m wide. This morning we made our way to the river to take a look.

There were quite a number of birds but the most impressive sight was the many pretty water lily flowers along the stream. Apparently school groups are allowed to swim in the clear shallow part of the flowing river.

Not very far upstream is the Peter Faust dam, built in the nineties for extra water storage and a degree of flood mitigation. It seems that a reasonable flow is released continuously to take fresh water to the towns of Proserpine, Airlie Beach, Midge Point and many surrounding areas. Water from the dam also is used to irrigate sugar cane when the farm storage dams and wiers are insufficient.

Up above the dam is now a huge lake that is popular for fishing the stocked dam and water sports. There have been no recent sightings of crocodiles this far up but it is certainly not impossible or even improbable that they could make the 30k journey.Leia mais