The Captain Logan Memorial is in commemoration of Captain Patrick Logan, a commandant of the Moreton Bay convict settlement in the 1820s. Patrick Logan led several expeditions, including naming the Logan River in 1826, and climbing Mount Barney in 1828 with Allan Cunningham and Charles Fraser. Anxious to complete his survey map of the upper … Read more
The Pioneer Cottage is a small museum within one of the oldest surviving houses in Buderim. Built around 1882, the heritage listed Pioneer Cottage was built for John Kerle Burnett and his family, sometimes called the JK Burnett residence. Pioneer cottage started with four rooms off a central hallway, a parlour and bedroom at the … Read more
Buderim Forest Park is a small rainforest reserve along Martins Creek, with a boardwalk starting from Harry’s Lane at the northern end. Harry’s Lane is the easiest entrance to the park with a boardwalk following Martins Creek upstream, much better access for wheelchairs and strollers. The boardwalk only goes so far before it turns into … Read more
Buderim Forest Park is a small rainforest reserve along Martins Creek. Serenity Falls, also known as Buderim Falls, is part way along the walk through the park. There are two entrances to the park, with this brown sign covering the southern entrance starting at the Edna Walling Memorial Garden . The Harrys Lane entrance to … Read more
Edna Walling was a talented and influential garden designer, designing many gardens in Victoria. Edna was born in England and came to Australia with her family as a teenager, settling in Melbourne. Studying horticulture, Edna started her own landscape design business in the 1920s. The design of Edna’s gardens included low stone walls, wide pergolas, … Read more
The Big Pineapple is a 16-metre fibreglass pineapple structure, originally opening in 1971 as a tourist attraction at the pineapple plantations in Nambour. One of Australia’s well known big things, the Big Pineapple was one of the most popular tourist attractions in Australia in its heyday. The significance of the Big Pineapple is why it … Read more
Paradise Dam Tourist Drive is an off-road drive through Good Night Scrub National Park next to Paradise Dam. The 46km tourist drive starts at the northern end of the Good Night Scrub National Park and heads south to the wall of Paradise Dam. It then either returns back the same way or comes back via … Read more
