Photo: Redcliffe Jetty
Tiaro is a small town along the Bruce Highway between Gympie and Maryborough. The The Tiaro Visitor Information Centre is the first accredited information centre on the way north into the Fraser Coast Region. The centre offers information about the region and the local Tiaro area. Behind the centre is a great park, the Tiaro … Read more
Ben Bennett Bushland Park is a reserve with a number of habitat types and ecosystems, only a few minutes from the main street of Caloundra. The park was once known as Ben Bennett Botanical Park but was renamed at some point, although I’m not sure when this occurred. The park has been around for over … Read more
The Masons Bridge in Rosewood is a recognition of history named after two of Rosewood’s earliest settlers. The brown sign sits beside where the original Masons Bridge existed before it was damaged by floods. The “bridge” is crossed when travelling along the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive . Richard and Emily Mason moved to Queensland … Read more
The Wisdom Seat in Rosewood is a bench seat provided by the Rosewood Shire Council for residents to wait for their mail. The Rosewood CWA required the Rosewood Shire Council to provide a seat in 1929. The seat was for the convenience of residents waiting outside the Post Office for the arrival of the mail. … Read more
Johnston Park is a parkland named after Archibald Wilfred Johnston, commonly known as ‘Wilf’, a councillor of Rosewood Shire Council from 1946 to 1949. Rosewood Shire Council amalgamated in 1949 into the new Moreton Shire Council, where Wilf became the first chairman until 1952, and served again between 1955 and 1958. Moreton Shire Council has … Read more
Note: The Rosewood Railway has paused operations while work is undertaken. See the Rosewood Railway Facebook page for updated information. Kunkala is a brown sign outside of The Rosewood Railway, one of two railway stations operated by the railway museum, the other is Cabanda Station. Cabanda Station doesn’t have a brown sign for it but … Read more
Bigges Camp Park is at the eastern end of Grandchester, between Rosewood and Laidley. Grandchester was formally called Bigge’s Camp, named after a pioneer pastoralist, Frederick Bigges. The area was first viewed by Alan Cunningham in 1829 when he and his party camped beside the Railway Lagoon in search for the source of the Brisbane … Read more
Spicers Hidden Vale is a resort in Grandchester, a small town west of Brisbane along the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive . The tourist route starts from Ipswich and continues through to Toowoomba along an old Cobb & Co route and the first main line railway in Queensland which first terminated at Grandchester Railway Station … Read more
Das Neumann Haus is a house museum in the country town of Laidley. Built in 1893 by German immigrant Hermann Newmann, it has been refurnished in the style of the 1930s. Hermann Newmann migrated with his parents and brother in 1884, meeting his wife Annie in Ipswich in 1885. Annie Schermuly, of English and German … Read more
Lake Dyer is near Laidley, an offstream storage dam providing water for irrigation, filled mainly from diverted flows from Laidley Creek as demand requires. Named Bill Gunn Dam, it was built as an ungated dam with a spillway for excess water to flow over when capacity is exceeded. The level of water normally varies based … Read more