The Gin Gin Historical Village is located at the disused Gin Gin Railway Station, on the branch rail line from Bundaberg. The village area is quite large will a lot to look at. We arrived on a Sunday afternoon so it was quiet and deserted, so we didn’t get to look inside the museum buildings … Read more
The Boolboonda Tunnel was built for a railway line to service the booming copper mining town of Mount Perry and support the agriculture of the area. Construction of the Boolboonda Tunnel began in 1883 and opened in 1884. The unlined and unsupported tunnel through rock is 192 metres in length, making it the longest unsupported railway tunnel … Read more
The Smelter Site at Mount Perry is the site of the Mount Perry Smelter originating in 1872, now only the slag heaps remain. Mount Clara Smelter Chimney is the oldest remaining smelter chimney which was built the following year. The edge of the slag heap is viewable from the road but is fenced off from accessing below … Read more
Cania Dam is located north of Monto and is highly regarded as one of the better dams for fishing, stocked with Australian bass, golden perch, silver perch, and saratoga. As a stocked dam, a SIPS permit is required for fishing, which helps fund the dam to have fish stock added to the dam for recreational … Read more
The scenic lookout at Cania Dam is on a high point above the dam across from the Castle Mountain cliffs of the Cania Gorge National Park. You can drive to the lookout or walk from the recreational areas of Cania Dam . At the lookout is a brick shelter from which the views to the … Read more
Hurdle Gully Lookout is near Monto in the Coominglah State Forest, looking from above the gully and across the valley of Three Moon Creek. When it rains the locals would say here comes Hurdle, as it hurdles everything with four feet of water. The Hurdle Gully Scrub below the crumbly sandstone cliffs it is sheltered by … Read more
Anyarro Provisional School 1928-1929 is a brown sign in a paddock located at a place that appears to be nowhere in particular. Like the brown signs for Langley Flat School and Langley Flat Provisional School , Anyarro Provisional School makes the historical location for a school that has little left to mark its existence. There are … Read more
The Bunyip Hole is a waterhole a few kilometres out from Mulgildie along Three Moon Creek downstream from Cania Gorge. Aboriginals tell the story of fearsome booming monsters that inhabit swamps and waterholes. Of Mulgildie’s waterhole, tales have emerged of strange noises, bubbling, churning water in the waterhole, and of cattle disappearing as they had a drink. … Read more
Bunyip Statue in Mulgildie was created in 2010 to celebrate 80 years of service of the Mulgildie branch of the Queensland Country Women’s Association and Queensland’s 150 years as a state of Australia. The big bunyip is not a random figure for the statue. Nearby is the Bunyip Hole, a place of stories of monsters … Read more
Mount Scoria is a mountain that was a basalt plug of a small volcano. The cooling process created angular columns with between five to eight sides. The shapes started as cracks in a similar fashion cracks form in dry mud. The cracks grew deeper as the lava below cooled to form the columns. Mount Scoria is known … Read more
