Hwy17 Ceratodus Traditional Cache

We frequently travel up the "middle road" from Brisbane to Central Queensland and
thought it would be good for other travelling cachers to have more reasons to stop
along the way

The name Ceratodus was given to the settlement about 1922 and derives from that
of the Queensland lungfish. A railway station opened here 26 April 1924. On 12 September
1924, the District Postal Inspector, reported that 100 railway employees were camped
at Ceratodus, engaged on bridge building and other railway work, and that there was
one permanent settler (named Falconer) in the locality.

A receiving office opened at the railway station in January 1925 and was elevated
to a post office by April 1926. The settlement was, for many years, a watering
station for steam locomotives. In 1967 it was reported that the postmistress and
station-mistress (Mrs. J. Leard) also operated the telephone exchange (to which
only one subscriber's service was connected) and that there were no shops or
businesses in the settlement, only two railway cottages.
The post office closed 31 May 1968

Today, Ceratodus has a highway rest area with toilets, picnic tables
and wood BBQs. There is also an interesting old railway station with local
history.