Otto Merchel Park is one of a series of parks along the foreshore on the Hervey Bay Esplanade Trail. The park has a sheltered picnic table area with a free BBQ. A toilet block is located at the park as well. A parking area with a few perpendicular parks is at Otto Merchel Park. Access … Read more
Bill Wilkin Reserve is one of a number of parks along the Hervey Bay foreshore with access to the Torquay Jetty. The park is beside the Hervey Bay Sailing Club where most of the parking is available. On the same side (west) of the club, you will find public toilets, sheltered picnic tables, and free … Read more
Ron Beaton Park is one of many public recreation parks along the foreshore of Hervey Bay. The unobstructed view of the bay is a distinct feature of Rob Beaton Park. Many of the parks on the Hervey Bay Foreshore Trail having bushland between it and the beach. The Hervey Bay Surf Lifesaving Club is next … Read more
Dayman Park offers great views from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island, the marina and the Great Sandy Strait. There is a playground for the children with sheltered picnic tables and free BBQs. Historical information about ships and sailing. There is a cannon ball from the HMS Porpoise and a ship art piece of the Ariadne, … Read more
Susan River Homestead is a resort with horse riding, camping, and accommodation rooms. Set on over 1,600 acres, horse riding is the main attraction, with over 60 horses. The gentle mannered horses cater for all ages and levels of experience. A night ride each month experiences a ride to the river for a dinner by … Read more
Cobb & Co Museum is located in Toowoomba with displays from the horse-drawn era. Not just Cobb & Co carriages, the collection includes farming wagons, delivery carts, and the landau, the Rolls Royce of Carriages. It is fitting that the Cobb & Co Museum represents the end of the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive , … Read more
The Toowoomba Historical Society, established in 1949, is a research facility preserving and promoting the history and heritage of Toowoomba. It is located at Queen’s Park Gardens in Toowoomba, next to the entrance archway to the gardens. To Get There Links https://www.toowoombahistory.org.au/
Queens Park is a heritage-listed botanic garden in East Toowoomba and one of the main gardens in the annual Carnival of Flowers. Originally a public reserve gazetted in 1869, the building of the botanic gardens and Queens Park where established separately from the 1870s. The gardens continually evolved through to the 1970s. To Get There
The Spring Bluff Railway Station is on the main railway between Ipswich and Toowoomba. It is well known for its beautiful gardens and participation in Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers held in September each year. Following the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive from Ipswich, it is the first gardens in the Carnival of Flowers. In contrast, … Read more
Mt Bauple Museum is in the middle of the Mount Bauple township, between Maryborough and Gympie on the Bauple Tourist Drive 6 . The museum has brilliantly been built on a disused road reserve. A much better use or the land that otherwise may have been left bare or perhaps a picnic table or two … Read more
