Brent Brian 
Kenilworth Tourist Drive 22 is a 70-kilometre drive, starting from Maleny. The tourist drive heads through small towns, including Kenilworth, ending at the Bruce Highway near Eumundi. The tourist drive is 70 kilometres, however, you will likely travel further visiting various destinations along the way. The Blackall Range Tourist Drive 23 travels through Maleny. You … Read more
Australia’s largest adventure playground, located between Brisbane and the Gold Coast in Tamborine Mountain. Thunderbird Park supports a range of activities, from adventure, camping, thunderegg fossicking. Another attraction is the TreeTop Challenge (like at Nambour’s Big Macadamia Nut and Gold Coast’s Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary ) with high rope courses through the rainforest canopy and ziplines. … Read more
As big things go, the Big Macadamia Nut isn’t one of the classics known for starting the big things “thing”, however, it has been around for almost as long as it’s more well-known sibling, The Big Pineapple. Built in 1978, only 7 years after the Big Pineapple, the Big Macadamia Nut added to the then … Read more
Brown sign hunting is a never-ending endeavour. There are more we are unaware of than we have ever been to, heard of, or plan to visit. Overall it has been a quieter year in terms of getting out to destinations but there have been a lot of things happening behind the scenes. The introduction of … Read more
Cooby Dam is a recreational area for boating, fishing, walking, and picnicking. There are picnic shelters and free gas barbecues. Water vessels need to be unpowered, such as sailing boats and canoes, or an electric-only powered vessel. Swimming is NOT permitted. The dam is located in Kleinton, north of Toowoomba. There are no camping facilities … Read more
Hermannsburg is an Aboriginal settlement, famous for the home of artist Albert Namatjira. The historic settlement is a National Trust listed precinct. The restored buildings are a series of German-style whitewashed buildings, constructed during the establishment of the mission in Hermannsburg, in 1877. The buildings include a church, school, and a various houses and outbuildings. … Read more
Memorial to the artist Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira lived between July 1902 and August 1959. A plaque on the memorial reads “This is the landscape that inspired the artist Albert Namatjira”.
Blackall Range Tourist Drive 23 is a 55-kilometre drive, starting at the turnoff into Landsborough off Steve Irwin Way. From Landsborough, it climbs up the Blackall Range to Maleny, then follows the tops of the range northward through Montville and Mapleton. The tourist drive then heads back down the range into Nambour and finishing near … Read more
Carved with a chainsaw from a single piece of wood by Mark Ray, the Big Magpie is found in Simpson Park in Muswellbrook.
The Blue Heeler in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, stands 2 metres tall. Built in 2001, the town in the upper Hunter Valley prides itself on being Blue Heeler country. Feature image from Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BigBlueHeeler_Muswellbrook.jpg
