NEARBY TOWNS TOLGA WOODWORKS Gallery & Cafe Creative woodturning Stunning woodwork Forged steel Sculpture WATCH VIDEO Café Glass RAVENSHOE Queensland’s highest town, Ravenshoe is 89-91 Kennedy Highway, Tolga 920m above sea level and is home to Windy Hill wind Ph: 07 4225 0686 > www.tolgawoodworks.com.au Open 7 days 9am – 5pm > Closed February farm, which generates enough electricity to supply approximately 3500 homes. Surrounded by natural wonders like Millstream Falls and the skiing and fishing attraction of Koombooloomba Dam, the locals here live a lifestyle to be envied and celebrate it every year C during the Torimba Festival and Festival of the Forest in 4728 October. WALKAMIN The Ravenshoe Visitor Centre at 24 Moore Street AUSTRALIA provides first-class information and has excellent Q displays on the rainforest, timber-milling, dairy farming and the World War II military presence in the area. It also incorporates the Nganyaji Interpretive Centre and Ravenshoe Heritage Gallery. INNOT HOT SPRINGS In an often quoted local export story, the hot water bubbling out of Nettle Creek at up to 75 degrees celsius was bottled and shipped to Europe as a health treatment more than 100 years ago. Today, visitors take to the waters at the Innot Hot Springs * Leisure & Health Park, which has six public pools. Innot Hot Springs is also a great base for gem fossicking, fishing and bird watching WOOD FIRED PIZZAS & ME ALS Mt GARNET During its heyday, large deposits of copper, P: 07 4086 8008 WWW.MTUNCLE.COM *SEE WEBSITE FOR OPENING HOURS silver, tin and lead were extracted from Mt Garnet, the redeemvoucher1819 Chewko Road, Walkamin QLD Australia town named for a large garnet lode discovered during copper mining. If you would like to experience real this for: Australian bush style hospitality, turn up at Mt Garnet on the first weekend of May for the town’s races and 1 SAMPLE OF LIQUEUR rodeo – as a community event this rates as one of the OR SPIRITS top in the country. * Limited to 1 x sample per person. www.athertontablelands.com.au 35 O LI U L E U M R O S R F & E S P D I A R I M T S A S W T A N R E D I D W E I R N G N I N N I G L A