1/96News/property 12/1/1968 Aerial photograph of the main road leading into Gympie cut by flood waters. Flood waters rose to record levels. Neg no G12855. Picture by Ray Saunders The Courier-Mail Phioto Archive. Scanned April 2011
MEGA GALLERY: 100 photos of Gympie floods over the decades
The Gympie region is famous for its vertical floods and for its resilience and ability to just deal with them when they occur. As far back at the 1870s, The Gympie Times has been covering those floods and recording a vast library of stunning and devastating photos. Here are a hundred shots from the air and the ground taken over the past 150-odd years.
2/96News/property 12/1/1968 Aerial photograph of the main road leading into Gympie cut by flood waters. Flood waters rose to record levels. Neg no G12862. Picture by Ray Saunders The Courier-Mail Phioto Archive. Scanned April 2011
3/962013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. view of road damage at Widgee. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
4/96The Bruce Hwy goes under water at the Centro Shopping Centre. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
5/96Centro Shopping Centre and Aldi had water front locations. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
6/96One Mile was an ocean of water, ten pin bowling in the right corner of the picture was saved but the BMX track, football and cricket fields and their clubhouses went under. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
7/96Water world this photo taken from above Monkland looking toward the Southside over the Deep Crk rail bridge shows just how much water was around. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
8/96The Bruce highway cut at Kybong. Gresham's dairy can be seen isolated on top of the hill. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
9/96The Bruce highway cut near the Traveston turnoff. The highway's large inteligent sign can be seen popping out of the water. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
10/96The new Mary Valley Link Rd cuts through the middle of the backed up Mary River. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
11/96Normanby Bridge runs through the middle of this image with the Deep Creek railway bridge in the background. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
12/96Glastonbury Rd goes under at Eel Crk Bridge. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
13/96An ocean of water flows beside the Bruce Highway and over Bells Bridge. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
14/96This image shows just how high a levee would have to be built to stop water entering Mary St. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
15/96Kidd Bridge entry from the Southside 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
16/96Albert Park on the left is inundated by a mass of water. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
17/962013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Looking south east with the new Gympe sewage treament plant in the foreground. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
18/96Looking down the river, Bruce Hwy businesses are under in the foreground with the Nestle coffee factory on the right. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
19/96With the flood at its peak, Mary St is in the foreground looking west over Memorial and Albert Parks to the Mary River. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
20/96Waterworld Albert Park and albert bowls club under water at the peak. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
21/962013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
22/96The Mary River looking north with Centro Shopping Centre on the right. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
23/96Gympie Football under water. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
24/96The Cooloola Kart CLub cricket. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
25/96The Gresham family farm is an island. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
26/96Mary Valley link road holding back the Mary. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
27/962013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
28/962013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
29/96Kidd Bridge looking east 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
30/96Kidd Bridge entry from the Southside 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
31/96Looking south east with albert Park flooded. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
32/96Looking south east witht he Bruce Highway on the left at Kentucky Fried Chicken. 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
33/96Bells Bridge 2013 aerial flood pictures of Gympie. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
34/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
35/96Flood waters at the Traveston crossing (foreground), where the dam would have been built on the Mary river , looking upstream into the body of the dam Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
36/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
37/96Aerial view of cattle next to rising floodwaters in Gympie, Queensland.
38/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
39/96people wait as flood waters rise with The Bruce Hwy underwater , south of the township, in Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
40/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
41/96The Bruce Hwy underwater , south of the township, in Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
42/96The Bruce Hwy underwater , south of the township, in Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
43/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
44/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
45/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
46/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
47/96Flood waters at the Traveston crossing (foreground), where the dam would have been built on the Mary river , looking upstream into the body of the dam Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
48/96Aerial view of the houses and businesses inundated by the floodwaters in the Gympie CBD, north of Brisbane in Queensland.
49/96Flood waters at the Traveston crossing (foreground), where the dam would have been built on the Mary river , looking upstream into the body of the dam Aerial views of the flooded areas of the Gympie CBD , and the surrounding Mary River , Gympie , QLD
50/96Aerial industrial land in Gympie
51/96Queensland flood - aerial view of the flooded main street in Gympie. flooding floods /Floods/Australia
52/96Queensland flood - aerial view of the trucks stranded in flood waters in Gympie. flooding floods /Floods/Australia
53/96Aerial view of Gympie showing extent of flooding 10/02/99, one of four districts pronounced as "natural disaster areas". Queensland / Weather / Flood
54/96Aerial view of Gympie showing extent of flooding 10/02/99, one of four districts pronounced as "natural disaster areas". Queensland / Weather / Flood
55/96Aerial picture of the Gympie floods in Queensland. 10 February 1999. /floods
56/96Aerial view of Gympie showing extent of flooding 09/02/99, one of four districts pronounced as "natural disaster areas". Queensland / Weather / Flood
57/96Kaydin Vonschoeler enjoys the first flood water to enter through the Memorial Gates. Craig Warhurst The Gympie Times
58/96FOOTBALL: The flood waters heading in to the Gympie Football Clubhouse.
59/96Amali Fleming on the edge of the flood water at Kidd bridge. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
60/96Flashback. Kidd Bridge across the Mary River at Gympie was an attraction for sightseers on the weekend and again yesterday as flood waters washed over it. Heavy rain in the river's catchment area flooded the river. Haylley Richardson and her sister Katie of Jones Hill dropped by for a look at Kidd Bridge. Gympie Times Tuesday June 7, 1988.
61/96GYMPIE FLOOD WATCH: The near-flooding Coondoo Creek Bridge on Thursday, February 13, 2020.
62/96GYMPIE FLOOD WATCH: The near-flooding Coondoo Creek Bridge on Thursday, February 13, 2020.
63/96GYMPIE FLOOD WATCH: The near-flooding Coondoo Creek Bridge on Thursday, February 13, 2020.
64/961999 Gympie Flood
65/96RISING RIVER: Kidd Bridge was already well under as these onlookers took in the spectacle of rushing flood waters between Gympie and Southside.
66/96SILVER BULLET: The Mary Valley Heritage Railway's Silver Bullet railmotor filled a vital community need, ferrying workers, shoppers and goods between inner-Gympie and Monkland, which had become an island during the flood.
67/96FLOOD HEIGHT: Flood waters rose so high in Gympie in February 1999 they lapped the intersection of the Bruce Hwy and Monkland St, site of Queensland's original "Big Pineapple", before the idea was copied at the Sunshine Coast.
68/96Gympie remains on flood watch this morning.
69/96Gympie remains on flood watch this morning.
70/96Gympie Flood
71/961999 FLOOD: The Mary Valley Heritage Railway's rail motor provided a vital link between Gympie and Monkland during the February flood, ferring workers back and forth across the high level Deep Creek rail bridge.
72/961999 FLOOD Gympie residents near Kidd Bridge on the evening of Monday the 8, as the Mary River steadily rose, few realised what was about to happen over the next 24 hours.
73/96February 1999 Flood in Gympie.
74/96Clean up after Tropical Cyclone Marcia: The Gympie Muster site, Amamoor, received considerable flood damage to the main stage and surrounding fence lines. February 24, 2015. Photo Patrick Woods / Gympie Times
75/96Gympie Flood clean up. Monkland and Reef streets precinct Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hall.
76/96Gympie Flood clean up. Monkland and Reef streets precinct Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hall.
77/96Gympie Flood clean up. Monkland and Reef streets precinct owner PC Place Jem Green and helper Hope ward and jems dad Mick Craddock Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hall.
78/96Gympie Flood clean up. Monkland and Reef streets precinct k Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hall.
79/96Gympie Flood clean up. Monkland and Reef streets precinct k Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hall.
80/96Gympie flood Normanby Bridge under water.Mary River .Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hal
81/96Gympie flood... Jake 6 and brother Lachlan 4 Hudson Jakes a vetran of 6 Gympie floods at One Mile State School playing fields junior cricket club under water in background .Pic Glenn Barnes Story Peter Hal
82/96RESCUE: Two young girls are rafted to dry ground by a swift water rescue crew after the girls's father drove his car into flood waters on Power Rd and got stranded. Photo Renee Pilcher / Gympie Times
83/96FLOOD-25/02/2012 MARY RIVER RISING- Onlookers at the Kidd Bridge on the Mary River, Gympie watching the water rising. Picture: Robyne Cuerel NQ-GYMPIEFLOOD2502b
84/96Gemma and Nick Green of PC Place with their children Evie and Sidney watch from a distance as the flood falls below the ceiling of their business premises on River Rd. Photo Lee Gailer / Gympie Times
85/96PC Place evacuate as flood water rises. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
86/96PC Place evacuate as flood water rises. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
87/96Nelson Reserve flood water rising. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times
88/96Telstra shop evacuate as flood water rises. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
89/96Madill Park flood on the Southside. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
90/96Flood water near Centro. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
91/96Flood waters rising into Gold Star Diesel. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
92/96Flood waters rise into Brisbane Road Auto Electrics. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
93/96Flood waters rise as Gympie Automatics and Autio Repairs evacuate. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
94/96Monkland st flood river hight at 19.7. Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
95/96Mary street G&K footwear cleanup after flood February 2013 Photo Renee Pilcher / The Gympie Times
96/96About 12 houses in low lying areas were inundated in Gympie, Queensland. 10 February 1999. /floods
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