Gympie woman wins $1500 worth of Bill Busting help

JUST in case Lee Doolan finds she cannot live on the crayfish and yellowbelly she hopes to catch on her upcoming holiday at Quilpie, she will now be able to buy $1500 worth of Woolworths groceries to go with them.

The voucher she has won in The Gympie Times' Bill Busters Bingo competition may also help her buy the fuel to get there.

The win came just in time to make for an easier holiday than usual - easier on the budget at least.

"We're going to Quilpie in a fortnight for a holiday, all eight of us,” she said this week.

"We'll be able to buy a few things,” she said.

"We've been going there for holidays since the 1990s. We're old friends with a property manager and we take the caravan and use the shearing shed for a kitchen.

"It's 120 years old, and it's made of cyprus pine, so we have to make sure we don't have any big flames because it would go up in an instant,” she said.

She says the area is famous for its fishing, shooting and the crayfish visitors can catch.

"Fresh water fish often taste muddy, but out there the water is so clean, I could cook you a fillet of yellowbelly and you would swear it was reef fish,” she said.