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We have been recommended by Margaret R. to visit the Nagambie Lakes Leisure Park. Very modern, great facilities, and reasonable rates.

while you’re there (Wentworth) head out to the Perry sand dunes they are awesome !!

- Kym

don’t forget to go to Wentworth, my kids loved it there

- From Kym

The name doesn’t sound so good, but this swamp at the bottom of a sinkhole provides a fascinating day out. Read this description from the Tasmanian State Government website:

Explore four pathways through Dismal Swamp and open your eyes and your mind to the mystery of life at the bottom of a giant sinkhole.

You never know what you might find on the fascinating journey that unfolds as you descend 40 metres from the Visitor Centre on the sinkhole rim into a world where the spirit of nature and the creativity of Tasmanian artists come together.

The Gunns Plains Cave State Reserve (more information can be found in the Wikipedia article) in Tasmania’s north, contains an underground network of 154 known caves under the Gunns Plains farmlands. They run 45 minute tours into the spectacular caves.

Sourced from Tasmania’s North West, Your Regional Guide to 2008

Billed as the world’s largest maze complex, just out of Sheffield in Tasmania’s north, Tasmazia boasts a lavender farm, a miniature town, a gift shop and a pancake kitchen, and of course, lots of mazes, eight in all. They have the ‘Great maze’ (a traditional hedge maze), the Hampton Court maze, the Hexagonal maze, the Confusion maze, the Balance maze, the Cage maze, the Yellow Brick Road maze and the mysterious Irish maze.

Sourced from Tasmania’s North West, Your Regional Guide to 2008

A recent show about the Sawfish on Catalyst, found mainly in the Fitzroy River, in the Kimberleys, got us thinking that we would love to drop by and check out these amazing creatures.

After viewing a Catalyst story on a dinosaur bones dig by the University of Queensland, we have realised that our return trip through central Queensland will travel right through the middle of the area that they are fossicking in.

Which we figure will be a fantastic learning exercise for the boys - who knows, we might even be able to get involved in a dig ourselves!

The Age’s Travel Blog has posted a great article including many reader’s suggestions for things to do in and around Darwin, at the top end of Australia.

Robert Holmes runs a B&B along side his observatory, and conducts daytime talks and demonstrations on the planets, as well as hands-on sessions at night observing the stars and planets.

Talbot is located about half an hour North of Ballarat, Victoria.

Source: RoyalAuto September 2007