The mill's website explains: "With over years experience of growing our business and reputation, we now crush over 1. Our products include raw sugar, that we market domestically and export via QSL, molasses and electricity made from renewable sugarcane bagasse through our commercial arrangement with AGL.
A move to growing cane in recent years has further integrated our businesses. Our portfolio of farming land exceeds hectares and farming activities are also conducted on over hectares of leased land. It opens at 9. There are guided tours, a limited number of monitor lizard feedings Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and snake feeding every Monday. The Park is closed on Wednesday. Burrum Coast National Park Burrum Coast National Park covers 26, ha and is characterised by coastal plains and a stranded dune system.
Known as the "largest and least disturbed" of Queensland's coastal plains it is ideal for bushwalking, nature photography and bird watching. It has spectacular wildflower displays in the spring and early summer and is home to mangrove-lined riverbanks, wallum heath, tea tree wetlands, eucalypt forests and huge cabbage tree palms. Access by conventional vehicle is very limited and a 4WD is essential. Rare plant species exist in pockets with deeper soils including Livistonia palms in the Woodgate section, and, in the Kinkuna section, Melaleuca cheelii and the cycad Macrozamia lomindroides.
The estuaries of Coonarr and Theodolite Creek in the north, and the Gregory and Burrum Rivers in the south, are lined with red mangrove communities and the Woodgate section has swamp environs.
Birds are plentiful around these waterways in the early morning. Loggerhead turtles lay their eggs in nests on the beach from November to April. Other fauna in the park includes a wide range of birdlife, such as the migratory rainbow bee-eater, lizards, snakes and noctural mamals such as sugar gliders, feather-tail gliders, bats and marsupial mice.
Both are 4WD only. The Kikuna Camping Zone and the Theodolite Creek day use area are characterised by species such as beach spinifex, coastal sheoak and the colourful blooms and seeds of climbing guinea flower and coastal jack bean bind the coastal dunes.
Immediately behind the dunes are sandy ridges covered by shrublands and low-standing open forests of eucalyptus, vine thickets and wattles. The plains of the hinterland are characterised by shallow soils, out of which grow communities of wallum and heath such as wallum banksia - unusual in Queensland - tea trees and white mahogany.
Woodgate Section Located 47 km east of Childers is the seaside resort of Woodgate with its 18 km beach which is ideal for fishing and sailing. It is a retirement village and holiday resort for people wanting to "get away from it all". The Woodgate Section of the park extends from the town south to the Burrum River estuary. Access to the Burrum Point campground is 4WD only, although there is an metre circuit boardwalk through a teatree swamp which departs from Acacia Street off Sixth Avenue in Woodgate.
Those wanting to see more can take the 5. Join now! Click here to search picture captions and descriptions. Position within Australia. Your location. Places last visited. Your screen size. Map Includes. Submit website. Do you know of any agricultural activities in Childers? Cities, Towns and Villages.
Mountains and Hills. Rivers and Creeks. Weather Stations. The description was compiled before a fire destroyed much of the town in The fire coincided with the formation of a pastoral, agricultural and industrial society. It held its first show in and the showground became a venue for carnivals and cycle races.
The sugar industry intensified in the Isis district, with a large central mill west of Childers. Labour unrest was endemic over pay, working hours and accommodation. A breakdown in negotiations between mill owners and the union in led to a strike, and 'scab' workers were hastily brought in by train. A violent riot broke out at Childers railway station, leading to 75 police officers being dispatched and distributed among mills as armed guards.
A silent picture show opened in , and in the proprietors opened their seat Paragon Theatre in the main street.
By the s Childers' population was about people, and the figure remained at one or two hundred over that for the rest of the century. The building stock that survived the fire and the replacement stock were kept in service, and by the s Childers was recognised as an historic town. Gaydon's pharmacy was identified as a museum, and was a National Trust award winner in Four hotels, Royal, Federal, Grand and Palace were noted for their historic and architectural qualities, the last mentioned including an antiques centre, and the Paragon Theatre was another main-street attraction.
The Isis historical society created a complex incorporating an old Central Mill cottage. The shopping centre, labouring under several vacant frontages, had no vacancies within a year or so. Tourism had arrived as a timely economic supplement, but by car and bus as the railway had closed in Backpacker tourism, with Childers well located on the Bruce Highway, became significant, and the Palace Hotel was turned into a hostel.
0コメント