Fraser Coast Attractions

264 Kent Street (Attraction)
264 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occupied by J H Bliss, a watchmaker and jeweller, who specialised in the supply and repair of maritime chronometers, barometers, sextants and navigational instruments. This business served the busy port of Maryborough during the 1880s. Visitors to the port may even have availed of Bliss' skills as a maker of artificial teeth. ...

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75 Mile Beach (Attraction)
75 Mile Beach, Fraser Island, Queensland 4581, Australia

In the great tradition of many Australian place names, 75 Mile Beach on Fraser Island, was so named because it is approximately 75 miles long. Due to the constant movement of sea and sand, it's not always exactly 75 miles long, but then, '75.173 Mile Beach' just wouldn't have had the same ring to it. 75 Mile Beach runs along most of the east coast of Fraser Island. While it may not be the best ...

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Achievers Walk (Attraction)
Wharf Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

The Maryborough Walk of Achievers in Richmond and Wharf Streets was developed in three years over five stages. These plaques honour their pioneers, Olympians, and people from Maryborough who, through their achievements, have gone on to become extraordinary Australians in fields of education, government, culture and sport. The walk also incorporates a Federation Walk in conjunction with the Centena ...

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Anzac Park and Ululah Lagoon (Attraction)
Cheapside Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Once a favourite spot for aboriginal corroborees, the area is now a beautiful park, centred on the Ululah Lagoon. In 1852, the first land sales were held for the new town here, in a simple slab hut. Horse-drawn scoops were used to clear the lagoon to form Maryborough's first water supply in 1859. The lagoon is now surrounded by a walk and cycle path which is also frequently in use by the abundant ...

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Baddow House (Attraction)
366 Queen Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Recently restored to its original design, Baddow House was the third home built in the area by pioneer settler Edgar Aldridge. Edgar built the home for his wife Maria, a convict woman transported from England in 1837 as a bonded person. Unlike many others who moved to the new town site, Aldridge remained at the old township until his death in 1888. T ...

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Bakers Military Memorabilia Museum (Attraction)
Ashby Lane, Childers, Queensland 4660, Australia

Bakers Military Memorabilia Museum is unquestionably one of the best displays of military memorabilia outside the Canberra war memorial as is the 'wrap' that has been placed on the collections at Bakers Museum. The collection also includes countless items associated with various emergency services including police, ambulance, and nurses. The museum also showcases appliances from bygone eras making ...

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Band Rotunda and Fairy Fountain (Attraction)
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A. H. Wilson MLA saw it at the Glasgow Exhibition and acquired it as a suitable memorial. In 1905, the fountain was moved from under the ornate roof of the rotunda to its present site to allow ...

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Banksia Track and the Boardwalk (Attraction)
Burrum Coast National Park, Woodgate, Queensland 4660, Australia

The Woodgate section of Burrum Coast National Park conserves essential habitat for wildlife of the coastal vegetation communities. It starts with a boardwalk experience through a melaleuca (tea tree) swamp. This part is wheelchair accessible and offers a very enjoyable 20-minute return experience for visitors with restricted mobility. The two hour Banksia Track circuit then takes over ...

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Barolin Rocks Dive Site (Attraction)
Woongarra Marine Park, Bargara, Queensland 4670, Australia

Woongarra Marine Park in the Bundaberg region offers some of Queenslands most accessible shore diving including this site at Barolin Rocks. The rocky coastline provides you with plenty of colourful hard and soft corals to explore only a few metres from the shore. Small to medium size species of reef fish, rays and some pelagics abound on the reef's edge. You also have a very good chance of see ...

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Basin Lake Track (Attraction)
Fraser Island, Great Sandy National Park, Fraser Island, Queensland 4581, Australia

No visit to Fraser Island is complete without visiting Central Station, which was the centre of forestry operations on the island until the 1960s. There are historic displays, old machinery and buildings, but the gem for bushwalkers is via a small access route through the surrounding rainforest to the well-constructed boardwalk overlooking Wanggoolba Creek; an idyllic haven for unique plants. ...

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Bauer and Wiles Memorial Fountain (Attraction)
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Australia's only outbreak of the pneumonic plague was in Maryborough in 1905. This fountain, situated to the Lennox Street side of City Hall, is a memorial to the two Nurses Cecilia Bauer and Rose Wiles who courageously volunteered to nurse victims of the plague. Whilst looking after their patients both nurses fell ill and died from the deadly disease. ...

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Bicentennial National Trail - Section 5 (Attraction)
Pine Street, Kilkivan, Queensland 4600, Australia

The Bicentennial National Trial, over 5,000 kilometres from Healesville in Victoria to Cooktown in Queensland, is the longest marked route of its kind in the world; the 107-kilometre section through Kilkivan Shire mainly follows the forest ridges along the coastal ranges to the west of the highly populated plains of the Cooloola region. Here among the hills the trail, following many of the roads a ...

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Birdwatching on the Fraser Coast (Attraction)
262 Urraween Road, Hervey Bay, Queensland 4655, Australia

Hervey Bay and its environs offer abundant and diverse birdwatching opportunities with over 250 species identified. Every year thousands of migratory shorebirds visit Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Strait from destinations as far away as Japan, Alaska and Siberia. The sand and mudflats are important feeding grounds for nearly twenty different species of long distance fliers. In fact, the Great ...

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Bottlebrush Crafts (Attraction)
320 Albert Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Bottlebrush Arts and Crafts is a co-operative which aims to promote the work of local artists and crafts people through their gallery. The gallery displays and sells hand-crafted goods including pottery, sculpture, paintings, historical photos, needlework, china painting, dolls woodwork, folk art, handmade soaps and candles. Members will also take special orders for cakes, pottery, sewing, photo p ...

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Bundaberg Rum Bondstore (Attraction)
Whittred Street, Bundaberg, Queensland 4670, Australia

See, smell, taste your favourite rum being made. For 120 years the Queensland city of Bundaberg has been home to Bundaberg Rum. Located in the heartland of sugar cane country, Bundaberg is a charming city and the furthest north in Queensland that you can find polar bears. The Bondstore gives you an exclusive chances to see, smell and taste Bundaberg Rum being made. Your pass includes entry ...

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