“You are here today because of where we were yesterday”… inscription in the Rocky Creek War Memorial Park.

Rocky Creek War Memorial Park near Tolga on the Atherton Tableland in Queensland is huge and when we arrive it has about sixty vans in the free camp area but there is room for many more. This is our third visit to this park and out of respect I make a point of reading every single memorial plaque. I learn that not only was this bush park once the site of a 5000 bed military hospital, but there were 2000 staff and it was the largest military hospital in the southern hemisphere. The tableland was also the base for the Australian 6^th, 7^th and 9^th divisions during the war.