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Capricorn Coast & Whitsundays, Queensland


About the area: This region is known for its small townships, pineapple and sugar cane plantations, beautiful beaches, great river and ocean fishing and the many picturesque offshore islands that form the southern section of the Great Barrier Reef. It well known for its superb swimming and dive locations and an idyllic climate where year round the average daily temperature is 25 degrees Celsius.
The climate is warm, moist and amazingly equable, verying little in temperature between winter and summer, but because of the rainfall distribution, May to October is the best time of the year for visitors.
The jewell in the crown of the central coastal regions of Queensland is without doubut the Whitsunday Islands. They are the most well known and well visited island group in Australia and have become the epitome of the perfect tropical island holiday destination. The Whitsundays are Austalia's premier tourist attractions and holiday destinations, considered by Australians and overseas visitors alike as a very special part of Australia.

Pentecost Isld, Whitsundays Cania Gorge Whitehaven Beach, Whitsundays

Towns and Villages
Places of interest

Natural Wonders

Natural Attractions

Waterfalls

  • Proserpine: Cedar Creek Falls

Caves

Historic Places

  • Rockhampton: Quay Street Streetscape; 'Kenmore' Mater Hospital (1870s); Post Office (1892); Customs House (1898-1901); Criterion Hotel (1857); Supreme Court (1887); Union Trustee Chambers; former Queensland National Bank; Heritage Tavern (1898); Railway Roundhouse; Fitzroy Shire Council Chambers (1896); Walter Reid Apartments; Avonleigh Chambers; ABC Studios (originally owned by Mt. Morgan Gold Mining); Mater Hospital (1890); Yungaba Centre (1897); Archer Park Railway Station (1899); North Rockhampton Railway Station (1888); Wiseman's Cottage (c.1859); Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Hall and Tower (1907); Schotia Place (1888); Normanby Hotel (c.1898); Australian Brahman Breeders Association Building (former AMP Building, 1888); St Paul's Anglican Cathedral (1874, 1879-83); St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral (1889-90); Rockhampton Historical Society Museum; Dreamtime Cultural Centre (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dreamtime Centre, tell the stories of the Darumbal peoples; old 'Glenmore' station homestead (1862); 'Gracemere' homestead (11 km south-west, c.1858); St Christopher's Chapel, Lakes Creek (1943)
  • Gladstone: Gladstone Art Gallery and Museum; Port Curtis Historic Village (26 km west, old railway station, a church, homes, the original Clyde Hotel and a Colonial Railway Carriage)
  • Mackay: Commonwealth Bank (c.1880); Queensland National Bank building (1922); Masonic Temple (1927); Customs House (1901); Greenmount Historic Homestead
  • Sarina: Sarina Distillery; Field of Dreams Historical Centre; General Gordon Hotel (1886)
  • Proserpine: St Paul's Anglican Church; Proserpine Historical Museum
  • Collinsville: Collinsville Mining Heritage Centre; former Bowen River Hotel (c.1861)
  • Bowen: Bowen Historical Museum (shipwreck relics, a restored 1873 slab cottage with period furnishings, Captain Sinclair's waterman's badge); Bowen Courthouse (1883); historic murals.

Misc. Attractions

  • Rockhampton: Botanic Gardens and Japanese Gardens; St Aubins Village; Capricorn Spire (marks the exact Tropic of Capricorn); Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area
  • Yeppoon: Rosslyn Bay (the departure point for Great Keppel Island)
  • Gladstone: Gladstone Boat Harbour; Boyne Aluminium Smelter (1982)
  • Moranbah: Goonyella, Moranbah North, Peak Downs and Riverside coal mines
  • Sarina: Armstrongs Beach, Campwin Beach, Sarina Beach; Plane Creek Mill; Sarina Distillery (opened 1927) and ethanol plant; Hay Point lookout; Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminals
  • Shute Harbour: Whitsunday Islands ferry terminals and airport
  • Home Hill: Inkerman Sugar Mill; Ashworth's Rock Shop (gemstone factory); RAAF Radar Station No. 221
  • Collinsville: Mount Coolon coal mine; Collinsville Power Station
  • Bowen: the Big Mango; Good Fortune Bay Fisheries; Salt Works; Bowen Coke Works

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