Wooroolin is a town in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia on the Bunya Highway, around 250 kilometres north west of Brisbane the state capital. To the eastern side of the town is the Wooroolin Wetland, a non tidal, inland, seasonally flooded, vegetated swamp. In recent times the wetland has flooded and burst its…
Kingaroy is quite a large agricultural town in the South Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia. It is approximately 200 kilometres north-west of Brisbane the state capital of Queensland. The town is situated at the junction of the D’Aguilar and the Bunya Highways. Kingaroy is known as the “Peanut Capital of Australia”. Australia’s largest peanut processing…
Ban Ban Springs is a very small community located at the junction of the Burnett and Isis highways in Queensland, Australia. On the southern side of the road junction are the springs from which the area gets its name, being springs from which waters flow into the nearby Barambah Creek. “Ban Ban” has the meaning grass…
Wondai is a small town in the South Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia. The town is located to the south of the Bunya Highway, around 250 kilometres north west of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland. The population is around 2,000 people. There is a Timber Museum which showcases the history of the South Burnett’s…
Moore is a very small town in the Somerset Region of South East Queensland, Australia. The town is 96 kilometres north-west of Brisbane. The population including the surrounding area is only around 315 people. Moore is located at the base of the Balfour Range between the town of Esk in the Brisbane River valley and…
Biggenden is a small settlement in the North Burnett Region of Queensland. It is on the Isis Highway around 340 kilometres north west of the state capital Brisbane and 80 kilometres west of Maryborough. Here are few images from the rural area around Biggenden. The old weathered timber fences always form a nice foreground for this scene…
I always enjoy visiting the ibis rookery at Kybong, Kybong is just south of Gympie just behind the Puma roadhouse, also known as the Matilda roadhouse. At this site there is generally many birds and also many different varieties of birds. There is a relatively large lake and the majority of the birds are the…
On the recent road trip to the north of Brisbane I visited various coastal towns around Bundaberg and also to the south of Bundaberg. Bargara is quite close to Bundaberg, almost a suburb of Bundaberg. The coastline is very pretty and is mostly rocky close to the town with some mangroves and a few tracts of…
On the recent road trip to the north of Brisbane I visited the coastal area around Bundaberg. An area worth visiting here is the Mon Repos Regional Park. It is a quiet coastal oasis close to the city of Bundaberg. Here visitors can enjoy the walking and cycling tracks and explore the local coastal environment and…
On the recent road trip to the north of Brisbane I visited Elliott Heads which is on the north side of the Elliott River, the river inlet is beautiful and sandy. This is a beautiful area with a mixture of rocky coastline and also sandy tracts of coast. The area of rocky coast below was captured…
