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FREE TABLELANDS | December 2017 January 2018 GOOD FOOD + GREAT BEER 100% LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED Where’s your favourite spot on the Tablelands to take the kids during school holidays? It’s summer, it’s hot, it’s the school holidays – where do you take the kids? Here are the Top 6 favourite spots on the Tablelands as voted by our Facebook What’s On readers. 1 Lake Eacham 2 Davies Creek 3 Petals & Pinecones 4 Tinaroo Herberton Historic Gallo Dairyland 5 Village 6 Lake Eacham Photo: Steven Nowakowski Petals & Pinecones Photo: Rylee Venables Davies Creek Photo: Steven Nowakowski Who has the best locally made ice cream on the Tablelands? According to our fabulous What’s On readers, the best locally made ice creams can be found at... Emerald Creek Kuranda Home Made Shaylee 1 Ice-Creamery 2 Tropical Fruit Ice Cream 3 Strawberries WINNER of 2 Emerald Creek Ice-Creamery ice creams goes to Justin Loccisano! Compliments of What’s On 2 What’s On & Where To Go December 2017-January 2018 december this issue Favourite school holiday spots 2 December/January Calendar - highlights 4 editor’s note Gig Guide 6 Welcome to the double December-January edition of Good Food • Great Beer - hotels feature 7 What’s On & Where To Go. Local shoppers guide 12 In the blink of an eye we find ourselves at the end of 2017. Tableland Trails and Desinations 15 On behalf of myself and Katje, we’d like to thank you for your Movies 16 support this year. It’s been a big year full of memorable events Markets 16 and amazing things to do. 2018 on the Tablelands is gearing up Monthly Calendar 17 to be a cracker! Thank you all who have taken the time to give us positive feedback on the new look page What’s On magazine. It’s been an exciting start in this new 7 chapter of the magazine and your support is invaluable. We’re glad that this publication is the magazine of choice for tourists and locals for what’s going on all over the Tablelands each month. We wish you a happy, safe and prosperous festive season. Enjoy What’s On! Good Food • Great Beer National Hotel Mt Molloy. Photo: Steven Nowakowski cover next month EDITOR: Nettie O’Connell Monique Pezzalato at the Next issue will be February 2018. Kairi Hotel Advertising deadline is the 15th DESIGN: Nettie O Design Photo by of January. Contact us to book nettieodesign.com Heather Miller Photography your advertising and rates: 0416 120 852 [email protected] [email protected] Great care is taken to ensure event information is correct at time of publication, however or call Nettie 0416 120 852 PO Box 560, Kuranda Q 4881 readers should confirm event details before attending. Views expressed are not necessarily those of What’s On & Where To Go publishers or whatsontablelands.com.au its advertisers. Reproducing or copying any part of What’s On & Where To Go magazine requires WhatsOnTablelands the permission of the editor. December 2017-January 2018 What’s On & Where To Go 3 december january HIGHLIGHTS 1 Ladies 2 Ladies Only Christmas Atherton Carols shopping night by Candlelight in Atherton 6-9pm Night Atherton Showgrounds FREE event 6 8 Mareeba Christmas Night Markets 5-9pm Byrnes St shops open, market stalls in Post Office square. Mega prize to be won! 10 Goin’ Troppo The Jimbo & Gary the Goat Comedy Show 6pm Atherton Hotel 11 16 & 17 25 26 School Christmas Holidays Back to the Bone Botanical Christmas Day Boxing Day Races commence for state Garden - Open Weekend Mareeba Turf Club schools 10am-4pm Fenwick St, Mareeba 42 Bischoff Mill Rd, Watsonville (see page 14 for more info) 4 What’s On & Where To Go December 2017-January 2018 Calendar events for the next issue must be received online by the 15th of every month. 3 Malanda Combined Churches Calendar Highlights are subject to space availability and cannot be guaranteed. Christmas Carols 7pm Sunday 3rd December Register your event online Malanda Show Pavilion www.whatsontablelands.com.au Free entry – Supper afterwards 1-3 9-10 e Malanda Theatre The APA Company Christmas Show Christas 7.30pm Fri & Sat, 9 Dec - 7.30pm So 3pm Sunday @ 10 Dec - 2.30pm Sat 9th Dec – 7.30pm Malanda Majestic Sun 10th Dec – 2.30pm Theatre APA Theatre, Silo Rd, Atherton Adults: $10 Children: $5 $10 Adults $5 Children Featuring musical items, skits 1&2 9 Christmas Carols, one act plays... ALL WELCOME All Items are based on a Christmas theme Mareeba Theatre Group Christmas Races and are of a joyous nature. Mystery on the Orient Express Atherton Turf Club All Wecoe Morrow Park, Tolga 7pm Fri & Sat @ Mareeba Tickets: United Football Club Tableland Books or at the Door Contact Ida 0439 545 433 a eat e, Aterton t Sio Road HERBERTON NEW YEAR’S EVE STREET PARTY 2017 31 31 6.30 PM—12.30 AM New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day 15 Jan 22 Jan School resumes Advertising deadline [email protected] 1+1=? Food, treats and refreshments Celebrating a time from your favourite when music was about 26 Jan Herberton eateries. Australia Day fun, dancing and Don’t want to drink & drive? Be feeling good safe and stay over Check out accommodation at www.herbertonvisitorcentre.com.au IT'S FREE ! IT'S FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND IT'S FUN!! December 2017-January 2018 What’s On & Where To Go 5 GIG guide ATHERTON HERBERTON MILLAA MILLAA Live Music at the ORB - 2 Main St 15 Dec 7.30pm - Klockwork @ Every 2nd Friday - Live music @ 6-10pm Thursdays - Beginners Night Australian Hotel Millaa Millaa Hotel 7pm Thursdays - Goddy Brown’s IRVINEBANK RAVENSHOE Blues Bar 4-10pm Sundays - Jam Session 1 Dec - Fine Tune @ Irvinebank Tavern 7pm - Misty Mountain Music every 31 Dec - Fine Tune @ Irvinebank 2nd Saturday of month @ the 1 Dec - Darrin Leonard @ Atherton Tavern Mountains Institute International Club 8 & 22 Dec - Carrizma @ Atherton KURANDA YUNGABURRA International Club 3 Dec - Jeanette Wormald Trio @ Every 2nd Saturday - Django in 15 Dec - Mark Burton @ Atherton Kuranda Riverboat Music Cruise the Djungle - Saturday Sessions @ International Club Yungaburra Hotel 29 Dec - Deluge @ Atherton Every Sunday from 10am Sunday International Club Sessions @ Cafe Mandala Every 4th Saturday from 3pm Traditional Folk Session then a live band in lounge from 7.30pm @ Yungaburra Hotel Got a gig? Submit your event details by the 15th of every month www.whatsontablelands.com.au 6 What’s On & Where To Go December 2017-January 2018 GOOD FOOD GREAT BEER Malanda Hotel Photo: Steven Nowakowski otels have long been a social centre for rural communities across the HTablelands since towns were settled. Whether for a cold beer after a long day’s work or somewhere to take the family for a meal, pubs are a meeting place for locals, visitors and tourists alike. Stories are told, world problems are solved and new friendships are formed in pubs. Nothing quite matches the warm feeling you get from eating a great counter meal and washing it down with an ice cold beer. If it’s winter and there’s a fire – even better. The Tablelands is rich in hotel history, but sadly many no longer exist whether for economic reasons, or due to fire, dams or severe weather events. It’s hard to imagine that in the 1880s Herberton once hosted 18 hotels! Today two of those OUR PUBS hotels remain standing and trading — Royal Hotel and the Australian Hotel. The Royal Hotel is the oldest continuously licenced premises on the Tablelands with the Australian Hotel second. 1880 - Royal Hotel, Herberton Most hotels were built with quality local timbers, which meant they were strong and would stand the test of time, cyclones and weather. The beauty of the timbers 1881 - Australian Hotel, Herberton and craftmanship that went into these buildings is nothing short of astonishing 1885 - Tolga Hotel and we are fortunate to still have them to treasure and admire today. 1890 - Kuranda Hotel Built in 1908, the Peeramon Hotel withstood decades of bad weather but was badly 1890s - Barron Valley Hotel, Atherton damaged in 2006 by Cyclone Larry. It is currently being renovated and looking 1890s - The Gateway Hotel, Mareeba fantastic. Malanda Hotel, built in 1911, is the largest timber hotel in Australia, 1900 - National Hotel, Mt Molloy complete with stunning ballroom, large dining room and ornate timber staircase. 1900s - The Atherton Hotel 1903 - The Anthill Hotel, Mareeba 1908 - Peeramon Hotel 1910 - Yungaburra Hotel 1911 - The Club Hotel, Ravenshoe 1911 - Malanda Hotel 1912 - Kairi Hotel 1921 - Millaa Millaa Hotel 1927 - Ravenshoe Hotel unknown date - Junction Hotel, Dimbulah Note: this list does not include all Tablelands hotels. Names listed are the current day names - many hotels have had various names over their history with many also rebuilt after the original hotel was destroyed. December 2017-January 2018 What’s On & Where To Go 7 • • 8 What’s On & Where To Go December 2017-January 2018 Barron Valley Hotel, Atherton Built a year earlier, the Yungaburra Hotel (also known as the Lake Eacham Hotel) is the second largest timber hotel in Australia. The Ravenshoe Hotel holds the title of the ‘Highest Pub in Queensland’ at 920 metres. With its beginnings in the 1880s, the Barron Valley Hotel underwent a couple of rebuilds, with the latest in the late 1930s early 1940s in the fancy Art Deco style of the time. It’s interior remains mostly unchanged and utterly charming, and has been operated by the Nasser family since 1930. In the last year, the Kairi Hotel and Gateway Hotel have A number of pubs on the Tablelands have succumbed to both undergone significant renovations, with the Gateway fire.