Bundaberg Coast Tourist Information

Bundaberg Coast Tourist Information

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Bargara

The largest of the seaside townships, Bargara is only 13 kilometres east of Bundaberg. Leaving the city on Bargara Road or Walker Street you will travel through a patchwork of green cane fields. Bargara, the highest populated centre of the Burnett Shire is experiencing a development boom. The main shopping centre area includes a Tourist Information Centre, service station, hotel/motel, post office and banking facilities, restaurants, chemist and stores to service almost every need and a Dutch polder mill which offers coffee and light snacks served in a charming garden setting.

A variety of accommodation including first class oceanfront apartments, resorts, motels and backpackers is available. A boat ramp near the clock provides a launching spot for small craft. Fishing is possible off the beach, the rocks and offshore. There are plenty of park areas for picnic tables. Facilities for handicapped people are situated near the boat ramp. An excellent golf course, bowling green with tennis courts provide venues for the sports minded and children are well taken care of with playgrounds and skating facilities.

The Hummock, an extinct volcanic cone which is the district's highest point, offers 360 degree views of the picturesque Bundaberg district and coastline. It has a nature boardwalk extending from a beautiful tourist park with picnic and toilet facilities and meanders through the last vestiges of the original Woongarra Scrub. Access is via Windemere Road or Bargara Road. A gerbera nursery is situated on Windemere Road near the southern access to the Hummock and on the Port Road just south of the Bargara Road roundabout you'll find a nursery complex as well as a karting track, mini golf and water slide.

Nielson Park is an attractive palm fringed bay and has an adjacent caravan park and kiosk. The Bundaberg Surf Lifesaving Clubhouse is situated here and its members patrol both Nielson Park and Kelly's Beach during the season. Kelly's Beach has two swimming areas, seafront and causeway, so is attractive to surfers and small children. Sailing catamarans can be launched from the beach here and a hire company has boogie boards, surf skis, deck chairs and a catamaran available.

The Basin, situated at the northern end of Kelly's Beach, was created by the construction of a wall of basalt rocks to make a calm water beach. It was built by the Kanaka settlers who were brought to Bundaberg to work on the canefields in the 1880s.