TUESDAY 1.08.2017: Heading to Geoffrey Fisher Bridge free camp at Fernvale and on our way are passing Wivenhoe Dam. Of course, no dogs are permitted, but we did manage to access the car park and take some photos. When you see the water levels now it is amazing the damage done to the Lockyer Valley during the 2011 floods. 
The Wivenhoe Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a concrete spillway across the Brisbane River. The dam wall is located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) by road from the centre of Brisbane. The primary purpose of the dam is the supply of potable water for the Brisbane and Ipswich regions. In addition, the dam also provides for flood mitigation control, hydroelectricity and for recreation. The impounded reservoir is called Lake Wivenhoe and the dam, the lake and a narrow strip of surrounding land forms a locality also called Lake Wivenhoe.
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