CARAVAN parks were awash as Mother Nature dumped nearly 300mm of rain on south-east Queensland.

One park was isolated twice in less than a week but luckily many of its tourists had fled to higher ground before the second deluge hit.

Nola: green

"At least everything is lovely and green here now," Baffle Bobs Caravan and Camping Park's Nola Offord told Caravanning News.

Up to a dozen tourists were marooned at the park when a bridge connecting Baffle Creek with Miriam Vale on the Bruce Highway disappeared under two metres of water.

"We actually stand on sand here and the water drains away very quickly, but with the bridge out there was no way travellers could get out of here," Nola explained.

"It's happened three times since we have been here ... in 2003, 2005 and now again in 2010. We have an emergency plan in case we run out of supplies but luckily we've only had to use it once."

She said there was no question of the stranded tourists going hungry at the popular park north of Bundaberg.

"We were cut off for a total of five days but we had plenty of supplies here for everyone," Nola explained. "Some of our guests moved out before the heavy rains came because they used their laptops to check the weather ... they're a switched on lot these days."

Local residents complained they were left to fend for themselves without any help from emergency services.

Carl Hansen said: "It's like a lost world here sometimes."

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