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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| See, smell, taste Australia's favourite Rum being made.
Come to the home of Australia's favourite rum, Bundaberg. Set only a few hours drive from Brisbane, Bundaberg is a great regional city set in sugar cane country. Friendly people and great architecture in a relaxed Queensland setting, they even have their own se |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Opened in December 2008, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation is Australia’s newest tourist attraction and aviation adventure experience. More than a museum, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation celebrates pioneer solo aviator Bert Hinkler and the wonders of innovation, spirit and adventure.
Comprising a soaring exhibition hall, fe |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Mon Repos Conservation Park is world famous for its marine turtles. Loggerhead, Flatback and Green turtles nest on an accessible mainland beach. The park is also home to Woongarra Rainforest remnants, mangroves, a tidal lagoon and historic sites. In winter and spring, take quiet beach walks, watch birds or explore rock |
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| Next time you're in the Bundaberg area, add a little interest to your trip with a visit to The Bundaberg Barrel. From the unique spilled ginger beer flooring to bubbles in the entrance door of the tour, the barrel showcases Bundaberg Brewed Drink's most famous product - Bundaberg Ginger Beer. The interactive tour tells |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Bundaberg's first railway station, built in 1881 as an outlet for the Mt Perry railway bringing copper from the mines, is now preserved as a proper museum. Located some 500 metres from its original site, the museum houses a wide variety of railway items past and present.
The museum is a haven for train buffs. It incl |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Bundy Kegs is located in the Schmeider’s Cooperage Complex, here you can see coopers making American Oak barrels for wines and spirits. Be tempted to enjoy the free wine tastings in the cellar door where Queensland made grape and fruit wines are featured. Large selections of souvenirs are available, plus crafts made b |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Burrum Coast National Park is a showcase of protected coastal lowland vegetation types: cabbage palms (especially in the Woodgate section), paperbark swamps and mangroves. The Kinkuna section features a narrow picturesque beach, low coastal dunes, tea-coloured waterways and flat sandy plains. Explore the Woodgate secti |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Fairymead house, built in 1890 to an Indian bungalow plan, was originally the home of the Young family, owners of Fairymead Sugar Mill and Plantation.
During 1984, Bundaberg Sugar Company donated the home to the City of Bundaberg as an Australian Bicentennial gift. Relocated to Bundaberg Botanical Gardens, the homest |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Hoop pines, bottle trees and dry rainforest provide a wildlife haven in Goodnight Scrub National Park bounded by the Burnett River. The river is also one of the known habitats of the unique ‘living dinosaur’ Australian lungfish. With 165 species of birds and 60 butterfly species, Goodnight Scrub is a brilliant place to |
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| Hinkler Glider Museum is home to a life size replica of Bert Hinklers 1912 Glider and also the wing section of the original glider which inspired it all. Built by the Bundaberg Lions Club in the late 1970s, this glider represents the creative and innovative mind Bert Hinkler possessed. The museum also outlines Bert H |
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| This museum is a tribute to one of Australia’s greatest pioneer aviators Squadron Leader Bert Hinkler AFC DSM who was born in Bundaberg Queensland, in 1892.
Hinkler House or “Mon Repos” as Hinkler called it, was dismantled by a group of volunteers from Bundaberg in Southampton England in 1982, shipped to Australia and |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Kinkuna National Park preserves a wilderness area of coastal vegetation and wide, unspoilt beaches, just 30 kilometres south of Bundaberg. Part of the Burrum Coast National Park which also incorporates both Woodgate and Burrum River National Park, Kinkuna is part of the Great Sandy Region, of which Fraser Island is bes |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef is accessible from either Bundaberg or the Town of 1770. This 44 acre coral cay sits in a lagoon of approximately 3,000 acres with 14 world class dive sites: Manta Ray & Entrance Bombies, Napoleon's Wall and The Drop-off to name a few.
Snorkel the shallows or dive coral |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Mon Repos Conservation Park is the largest loggerhead turtle rockery in the South Pacific. From November to March, visitors to Mon Repos can witness one of nature's most fascinating spectacles — the annual pilgrimage of sea turtles. Adult turtles come ashore to lay eggs on Mon Repos beach. About eight weeks later young |
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| The Moncrieff Theatre is named after 'Our Glad' Gladys Moncrieff, world famous musical comedy star who was born in Bundaberg. Originally the Olympia Airdome, an open air theatre built in 1920, it was enclosed as the Olympia Theatre in 1955; refurbished as the Crest Theatre in 1973; and reconstructed as the Moncrieff Th |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| Part of a string of wetland remnants in the Bundaberg area, Baldwin Swamp Conservation Park is a tiny slice of Kakadu right in the heart of the city. Waterways here provide valuable feeding and breeding grounds for a variety of waterbirds and other wildlife.
As you walk along the Sunset Track beside Bundaberg Creek, |
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Bundaberg , Fraser Coast & Hervey Bay |
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| The Whaling Wall, measuring six stories tall, is a fantastic marine-life wall mural on one of Bundaberg's highest buildings in the town centre. A local landmark, it offers great photographic opportunities from several locations in the Central Business District. Check it out on your way through town or wander past if yo |
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