Visit our unique 'Outback' pubs

Go offroad on a 4WD tour

Visit beautiful Lake Mckenzie at Fraser Island

Australia’s Facts

The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.

Termite mounds are the tallest non-human constructions on earth.

Star gazing under ideal viewing conditions like in the Australian Outback, the naked eye can detect about 5,780 stars.

Fraser island is the world's largest sand island, the 90 mile beach is regarded and used as a highway.

Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty, the landscape varies from endless sunbaked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to our beautiful southern beaches

The Australian Alps get more snow then Switzerland!

One in every four persons is either a first or second generation settler to Australia, a trend started after World War II.

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is over 8 kilometres in circumference.

Australia's coastline is almost 50,000 kilometres linked by about 10,000 beaches.

Australia has the worlds largest cattle station

Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent.

Australian servicemen are referred to as 'Diggers'. This term comes from miners on the Australian goldfields of the 1800's

Australian Football was invented by Sydney Tom Wills and Henry Harrison - both were born in Sydney. Tom played the Aboriginal game of Mangrook as a child and it is believed the native game inspired the rules he initially proposed. The game then took hold in Victoria, and was largely rejected by Sydney.

The 'dingo fence' in Australia is the longest fence in the world, and is about twice as long as the Great Wall of China

Sydney Harbour Bridge is the world’s largest steel arch bridge.

The largest gold nugget known to be found was called ‘The Welcome Stranger’. Found in Dunolly, Victoria, Australia, weighed a massive 2280 troy ounces or 70 kilograms