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
The Bauple Tourist Drive is an alternative to following the Bruce Highway between Tiaro and Gunalda. Using larger towns as a reference, it is between Maryborough and Gympie. The tourist drive is quite short, about 11 kilometres instead of around 9 kilometres if you stay on the Bruce Highway. Start of Bauple Tourist Drive 6 … Read more
Theebine Hotel is the original building built 1909, although it was originally known as the Kilkivan/Theebine Junction Hotel. Theebine is a small railway station town north of Gympie along the North Coast railway line. The old Kingaroy/Nanango railway line branched at Theebine with the Dickabram railway station just before the Dickabram Bridge crosses over the … Read more
The Boondall Wetlands is the largest wetlands in Brisbane, Queensland. It is a refuge for local wildlife and an important resting and feeding place for migratory birds. Boondall Wetlands Reserve includes several walking trails and a bikeway that connects to larger bikeway network from Redcliffe in the north and Brisbane in the south. To Get … Read more
Hinkler House was built in Thornhill Estate in Southampton, England in 1925. A modest detached house, he named the home “Mon Repos” to celebrate the beachside location of the same name in his Australian hometown of Bundaberg where he had fuelled his love of flight. Hinkler House is physically separate from Hinkler Hall of Aviation … Read more
Hinkler Hall of Aviation is a museum built as a tribute to aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler. Bert made record-breaking flights locally in the 1920s and flew the first solo flight from England to Australia. The museum is housed in a building designed to look like an aircraft wing. It contains several aviation collections large and … Read more
