A must do in Chinchilla is the local museum, they have an impressive collection of historic farm equipment, buildings, working sawmill display and fire fighting history. Inside the Saw mill building you can watch
A cool find in Chinchilla is the free splash park in the Chinchilla Botanic Parkland. Runs all day, has shade, toilets, BBQs, playground and picnic tables. A great way cool off each day! #chinchilla
We took a drive out to see the Chinchilla Weir, there’s a playground, picnic tables, toilets, and a Free Camp (some with power), there is no phone reception though so we couldn’t stay due
Not far from Takarakka is a swimming hole called “the Rock Pools”, just 200m from the car park. Cross over 2 creek crossings to get to the deep swimming area. We visited a few
Our last walk in Carnarvon National Park was the Mickey Creek Gorge, a cool narrow Gorge that’s about 3km return. The kids loved rock hopping through the walk way. This was the easiest and
We set off with the kids just to see how far we could make it through these extensive gorge walks, we managed 13km in 6.5 hours! We were so proud of the kids making
We had a great morning at Pat’s Gems learning how to sieve sapphire wash, and identify the gems verses rocks. The kids enjoyed the whole experience, its a great setup for families, there’s a
On our first day in the Gemfields we joined a tour of a local underground sapphire mine, turned tourist tour. Our tour guide Matt showed us all the different sized tunnels, the natural sapphires
We head out to a place called Washpool to try our hand at finding sapphires out in the bush. We only found a few tiny ones, but loved scratching around in the dirt. #fossicking
The oldest known volcanic basalt plug in the world, makes a great place to view sunrise or sunset in the area. It’s located 15 minutes from Sapphire. A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic
