 About the area: The Fraser Coast and Burnett region is situated to the north of the Sunshine Coast, around a half day's drive north of Brisbane. The region's diverse, natural beauty includes the World Heritage Listed Fraser Island - the largest sand island in the world and the only place on the planet where rainforest grows from sand. It is on this coast that travellers heading north really get the feeling that they are entering tropical Queensland.
The Great Sandy Strait, with its peaceful and relaxed atmosphere, has a reputation as the ideal place to take time out. Dotted around the Strait on the mainland lie the peaceful seaside townships of Rainbow Beach, Tin Can Bay (where dolphins come close to shore to be fed on most mornings), Tinnanbar, Poona, Tuan, Boonooroo and Maaroom. These towns offer all the natural beauty found in the Sunshine Coast to the south, but without the people and urban development.
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Mary River, Maryborough |
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Natural Wonders
Natural Attractions
Waterfalls
Caves
Historic Places
- Hervey Bay: Hervey Bay Historical Village and Museum
- Childers: Soldiers Room Memorial; Childers Pharmaceutical Museum; Olde Butcher Shoppe; Federal Hotel (1907); Court House (1897. 1900); Palace Hotel; old Isis Central Mill School
- Maryborough: Baddow House (1883); Teamsters Paddock; Bush Inn (now the Royal Hotel); Brennan & Geraghty's Store (1871); St. Paul's Anglican Church and Tower (1879, 1887); City Hall (1908); Post Office (1869); Customs House (1901); Customs House Hotel (1870); Court House and Lands Office (1875-77); Maryborough Family Heritage Institute Building (1878); Bond Store Museum; Maryborough Technical College Group (from 1983); Lambert Hyne residence (1889); Band Rotunda, Queens Park (1890)
- Gayndah: Gayndah & District Historical Museum (1864); old school house (1861); Mellors Drapery Store (one of the few buildings in Australia which still uses a 'flying fox' to deal with transactions)
- Goomeri: Booubyjan Homestead (30 km north, 1847); Elginvale Mill Museum; 'Barambah' homestead
- Kingaroy: Bicentennial Heritage Museum; Annual Bunya Festival (Aboriginal tribal ceremonies, hunting, feasting, mock fighting and corroborees); Taabinga homestead (1846); 'Wylarah' homestead (1891)
- Gympie: Gympie Gold and Mining Museum (Retort House of the Scottish Gympie Gold Mines); Andrew Fisher's Cottage (Fisher was Australia's first Labor Minister for Trade and Customs. He later became the first Prime Minister to hail from Queensland.); Woodworks Forestry and Timber Museum; Court House (1900-02); Murphy's Convenience Store (on the front of the building there is a tethering ring for horses); The Australian Hotel (1883)
- Bundaberg: pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler's House; Commercial Bank building (1891); Post Office; School of Arts building (1889); Christ Church; The Water Tower; St. John's Lutheran Church (features texts from The Bible in huge letters)
- Mundubbera: Folk Museum, housed in the Cattle Creek Valley School House (1916); 'Boondooma' homestead
- Eidsvold: Eidsvold homestead (c.1849)
- Blackbutt: 'Taroom' homestead (1840s)
- Durong: Burrandowan Station Homestead (1847-48)
- Mt. Perry: Masonic Hall (1902)
- Oakview: Mount Clara Copper Mine Chimney (c.1872)
- Yengarie: Yengarie Sugar Mill remains
- 1770: Bustard Head lighthouse (1869) ; James Cook landing cairn
Wine Regions
Misc. Attractions
- Hervey Bay: wildlife park; bird sanctuary; Neptune's Marine Aquarium; Vic Hislop's Shark Show; Urangan Pier (1.4 km long)
- Childers: Isis Central Mill
- Maryborough: Queens Park; Historic Wharf area
- Tin Can Bay: Fraser Island step-off point (Inskip Point)
- Gayndah: Big Mandarin
- Goomeri: Cheeseworld; Bjelke-Petersen Dam
- Kingaroy: peanut silos; navy bean factory (known as the bean used in baked beans); Gordonbrook Dam; Muntupa Tunnel
- Bundaberg: Bundaberg Rum Distillery; Tropical Winery; Bundaberg Ginger Beer Factory; Avocado Grove; Boyd's Antiquatorium; Schmeider's Cooperage and Craft Centre
- Mundubbera: Golden Mile Orchard and the Big Mandarin
Journeys
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