Queensland's Big Sky Country Drives Adventure Way Discovery Artesian Bore, Cunnamulla QUEENSLAND Outback HIGHLIGHTS: Queensland Southern CHARLEVILLE BUNYA MOUNTAINS NP Queensland Sunflower Tourist Drive ROMA Kingaroy QLD Country Jimbour Glengallan Homestead Mitchell Blackbutt BRISBANE Bell NSWNSW Historic Rudd’s Pub Dalby Woodford Woolshed at Jondaryan Jondaryan BRISBANE ST GEORGE Nobby TOOWOOMBA Open-air Mud Bath in Eulo Allora CUNNAMULLA Bilby Experience & Cosmos Warwick Night Show Big Rig Night Show NEW SOUTH WALES Jimbour House gardens Bunya Mountains National Park Taste of South Burnett & 8 day itinerary discovering Australian stories, Kingaroy Observatory adventures and starry night constellations. DAY 1: BRISBANE TO TOOWOOMBA DAY 2: TOOWOOMBA TO (VIA WARWICK) 249KM ST GEORGE (386KM) Travel south on the Cunningham Highway to Continue your drive west to the heritage- historic Warwick, soaked in early settlement listed Woolshed at Jondaryan, the oldest history with sandstone buildings and castle- and largest operating Woolshed in the like churches. Follow the Sunflower Route world. Download the self-guided tour to Allora, the childhood home of P.L. Travers app for an interactive walk through who wrote the Mary Poppins stories. Visit restored colonial buildings and the the heritage listed Glengallan Homestead, a original Woolshed building. Follow the 19th century country house and Rudd’s Pub Adventure Way drive route through Dalby named after author Steele Rudd en route to to St George, the inland fishing capital of Toowoomba. Queensland. Bilby Experience, Charleville Accom: Quest, Toowoomba Accom: Riverland Motor Inn, St. George Sunflower Tourist Route Bunya Mountains DAY 3: ST GEORGE TO DAY 6: ROMA TO BUNYA National Park CUNNAMULLA (294KM) MOUNTAINS (330KM) Discover hand-carved illuminated emu Continue along the Warrego Highway towards eggs at The Unique Egg, ‘unique’ to St Dalby then drive through the rich black soil George. This world-class collection has grain growing area of the Jimbour Plains to been handcrafted over a period of more heritage listed Jimbour House. Stroll through than 40 years. Continue on the Adventure the beautiful formal gardens of this French Way to Cunnamulla for a visit to the classic sandstone homestead built in 1875. Cunnamulla Centre and a side trip to Eulo Discover quaint arts and craft shops nestled for an open-air mud bath accompanied by in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains in the picturesque town of Bell then take the wine and nibbles. Kingaroy Road to Bunya Mountains National Accom: Country Way Motor Inn, Cunnamulla Park where its pristine rainforest and ancient bunya pines await. DAY 4: CUNNAMULLA TO CHARLEVILLE (198KM) Accom: Bunya Mountains Accommodation Follow the Mitchell Highway to Charleville, DAY 7: BUNYA MOUNTAINS heart of the ‘mulga country’ and Discover cool mountains, rainforests and immortalised in Slim Dusty’s song by the waterfalls on a selection of spectacular same name. Get up close and personal walking tracks within the Bunya Mountains Woolshed at Jondaryan with the Bilby, one of Australia’s most National Park. Enjoy the privacy of your endangered species at the Bilby Experience. Bunya Mountain Chalet, hand feed King Join experienced night sky guides at the Parrots and Crimson Rosellas, tour the Cosmos Centre to view distant stars, rainforest in a Clydesdale drawn wagon and planets and star clusters through powerful enjoy the simple pleasure of billy tea and telescopes. damper. Watch for the Chocolate Wattled Bat Accom: The Rocks Motel, Charleville at dusk and try your luck at spotting nocturnal animals. DAY 5: CHARLEVILLE TO Accom: Bunya Mountains Accommodation ROMA (266KM) Travel to Mitchell for a therapeutic soak in DAY 8: BUNYA MOUNTAINS TO the Great Artesian Spa. Visit the original BRISBANE (221KM) courthouse where local bushrangers the Travel down the Bunya Highway to Kingaroy Kenniff Brothers were committed to stand and Taste South Burnett, a one-stop shop trial. Drive east on the Warrego Highway for locally produced wine, cheese and fudge. to Roma where twice weekly you can join Visit the Kingaroy Observatory to view Eulo Mud Baths a free tour of the Roma Sale yards, the the real surface of the Sun by day and the largest cattle selling facility in the southern starry constellations by night. Indulge with a gourmet platter at Crane Wines, a rustic hemisphere. Enjoy an amazing theatrical cellar door perched high on the Booie Range presentation, recreating the story of with breathtaking views east over the valley. Australia’s Oil and Gas Industry at the Big Your final leg of the drive will travel through Rig Night Show. the timber town of Blackbutt and the country Accom: Roma Explorer’s Inn, Roma township of Woodford back to Brisbane. www.queenslandsbigskycountry.com.