Historic Sites/Buildings Southeast Qld
Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 at 22:34
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Paul F2
Hi,
We are planning some more camping trips and are interested in seeing some more historic buildings or sites around SE Queensland, the kinds of things you see a bit off the beaten path. Eg, we saw the
Double Island Point lighthouse on the weekend (Cooloola) which was a little bit out of the way, and have visited
Mount Mulligan (in Far North Qld) a while ago, which was a lot out of the way and has the remains of an abandoned town with an interesting history.
So, we are looking for ideas of things like that to see within around 400 kms of
Brisbane.
Any ideas?
Reply By: Member - Julie P (VIC) - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:42
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:42
Mount Morgan is an interesting town, with lots of history and interesting buildings, as
well as the
mine.
Ravenswood is another place to visit - two pubs, a never open museum (
well not when we were there), The Blow - a quartz outcrop outside the town, camping is at the oval.
Rathdowney has a good museum next to the
Visitors Centre,
Kalbar has the Wiss Emporium - very elaborate building in a really small town. There are something like eight cemetaries in and around
Kalbar, and several churches.
Just some of my suggestions, of
places I have been.
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Reply By: Member - DAZA (QLD) - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:17
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:17
Fraser Island has the Mc Kenzie Jetty on the western side of the Island and the Maheno Wreck on eastern side.
There is also the old Z-Force site that the army used in ww2 for training.
Also
check out some old Pubs and Homesteads on the
Darling Downs some are
heritage listed.
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:37
Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 17:31
Reply By: rumpig - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:22
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:22
just out of
Canungra is a little railway tunnel that you may be interested in visting, see link for details.
http://www.railtrails.org.au/states/trails.php3?action=trail&trail=137
plenty of nice
places to
camp around that way also.
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Follow Up By: rumpig - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:29
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:29
few other
places you might want to
check out include Boolbunda tunnel and also out that way sort of is a concrete rail
bridge built back in 1905 just near Biggenden.
we also crossed a fantastic old wooden
bridge just before Miva that i stopped at for and hour and took photos of.
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Reply By: rumpig - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:42
Reply By: Nutta - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 22:37
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 22:37
Theres a beautifull big old train tunnel right on the
gold coast at molendinar.
The steam trains used to run from
brisbane to
southport a long time ago, of course.
It must be a hundred metres or more long and five metres high, not many people are aware of it sadly, it should be
heritage listed and displayed really.
I think its made of bluestone, i cant be certain though.
I used to go four wheel driving through it and all around there before alot of the main roads went in around the area, the
gold coast was a great place 30 years ago, now its a circus!
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Reply By: Paul F2 - Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 at 07:11
Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 at 07:11
Thanks everyone, that is a lot of great ideas for us!
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