Where can I take the children for an educational holiday experience in Qld?

Question

My kids really enjoy their history and I want them to see & experience as much of Australia's historical sites within Queensland as we live in Brisbane.

Answer 1

You could go to Toowoomba - there is the annual flower show or the Cobb & Co Museum.  Science centre in Bris is good - Museum is not!  Tangalooma is really expensive, but fun and nice to see the dolphins - it's just too expensive and touristy for me.  Stradbroke Island is a good one, you can see the sand mining and myora springs (where the redland's get's their drinking water).  St Helena Island is also really good if you want the history of convicts and such.  I found that interesting as a kid.

Answer 2

paradise country, gold coast next to movie world, farm animals etc, pretty good.

Answer 3

History is what you make of it.

But .......   if you have a car and a tent your on your way.

I used to travel from Toowoomba to Mt. Isa with my kids about three times a year. Anyway I don't know much about Brizzy and Ipswich but Toowoomba has quite a lot of things and places to see and do that are not only cheap but also free (if you can understand that.) My last trip to the Isa last August cost me about $160.00 in fuel as I have a fairlane and because Im a bit of an miser I made the kids sanga's bought there other goodies from woollies eg.. chips,drinks,lollies etc

there are a lot of camp grounds where you can pitch up a tent for around $15.00 and there are a lot of rest stops where you can pitch a tent for free and the good thing is there is always a lot of other campers there too (safety in numbers) and toilets and a BBQ area. Another good thing too is that we have a lot of awesome truckies out there so if you get a bit lost or your in trouble don't hesitate to ask one as I am pretty sure they will help you as much as they can, if they can.

Anyway good luck and happy travelling.

Answer 4

Go feed the dolphins at Tangalooma

Answer 5

you could take them to 1770 and Agnes Waters  up near Gladstone where Captain Cook first landed in 1770 on May24th the Birth place of Queensland and take them out on the larc an amphibious jeep and see the reef and visit the light house at Busterd Head  a very nice place  about a half days drive from Brisbane

just type in 1770  agnes waters and do a search on the web for more information  hope this helps

Answer 6

A great book "Exploring Queensland Parks and Forests" it is about $16 at book shops.

Springbrook National Park and Numinbah Forest Reserve are great places to camp and it costs about $4 each per night and you get to go on forest walks, see lots of waterfalls. flowing creeks, subtropical rain forests.  

Gympie Museum. Walk through the house Andrew Fisher used to call home.  He was prime minister of Australia in 1904.

Visit the Caboolture Historical Society and see people dressed in old time costumes.

Get onto virgin blue between 12 and 1pm and get some cheap airfares to Sydney.  Wake the kids at 5am and tell them they are not going to school today but get dressed because you are going to the zoo in Sydney.  See their reaction.  Get on the plane and land in Sydney.  Make out this is an adventure and they have to find their way around.  Great for getting the kids to learn navigation.  Get them to find the train station, buy the tickets and get off at The Quays. ( I think) and then get them to find the ferry boat that goes to Taronga Zoo and get them to buy the tickets.  Get on the boat and enjoy the ride to the zoo across Sydney Harbour, seeing the opera house on the way.  Have a great time at the zoo and then get them to find their way beck to the ferry and back to the opera house.  Have lunch.  If time permits get them to find a boat that goes to Manly and get the boat to Manly and look around there for an hour and then head back to the opera house and the train station and the plane and home.  You should be home in Brisbane by 10pm  Have a great adventure.

Answer 7

if u want somewhere cloase to brisbane try visiting boggo road jail, caboolture historical village and the like as i have been there for school excursiions and they are a great head start for budding historians :)

Answer 8

Take them up to the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree Rainforest, The Sunshine coast with the plantations.

Answer 9

Ipswich is a good starting destination, and it's very close to Brisbane.  

It has a very strong cultural history, and has historical walks and places to visit, including an excellent railway museum.  Follow the old Cobb and Co route, or take a steam train to Rosewood, or an early morning hot air balloon ride.



You could then continue on and see other areas like Grandchester that used to be known as 'Biggs Camp', through Laidley, and make your way up the Toowoomba range.  

On to the Jondaryean woolsheds and keep going if you're up to it.  Further out there are heaps of fossicing fields etc.

History is everywhere, but this is one area that embraces it and promotes it to tourists.

Answer 10

come to my place if your single and i can show you some exployering places let us know

Answer 11

Go to the science centre it is great fun at least i loved it and obviously it is educational. trust me the kids will love it. I went with my nana, poppy, aunty and cousin. I was 12 at the time and my cousin was 5 so you should be good.

Answer 12

In Brisbane specifically, there's no better historical story than the Mayne Murder Mystery. One of the men who was on the first Brisbane council confessed on his deathbed to a brutal and unsolved murder in 1848. His name was Patrick Mayne. He was a butcher at Kangaroo Point, and it's alleged that with the money he stole from the murdered man, set up a handsome treasure. The suburb of Mayne is name after the family, as is Mayne Hall on the grounds of UQ (in fact the land UQ is on was owned by the Mayne family, and bequeathed by Mayne's son James).

Brisbane is PACKED with places still brimming with hints at our dark city history.  Mayne had his butcher shop on Brisbane Arcade which connects Queen & Adelaide Streets (still there), his houses at Hill End and the famous 'Moorlands' on the Wesley Hopsital grounds are still there, there are stained glass windows in St Stephen's Cathedral dedicated to son James (a noted philanthropist)...it's a great story.

Here's some help:

http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensi...

http://www.brisbanearcade.com.au/history...

http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/revie...

http://nebuchadnezzarwoollyd.blogspot.co...

Answer 13

The is heaps of zoos, Australia Zoo (proberbly the 2nd best Australia), Alma park zoo, Currumbin Wildlife santuary.

Also try and go to the great barrier reef.

Answer 14

Try Tangalooma. Old whaling station on Moreton Island now known for wild dolphin feeding and study. Lots to do and learn and it's fun and close.

Answer 15

If you haven't done it yet, take them to Australia Zoo. The legacy Steve Irwin has left all of us is one of the est teaching tools there is, it will teach you and them how to work along side nature instead of walking all over it.

Also the botanical gardens is a great spot, there is also a railway museum in Ipswich which is excellent.

If you do the Sunshine Coast then there is a small aviation museum at the Caloundra airport.

I also suggest you google it on line and see what else google comes out with.

Answer 16

Sea world, whale spotting cruises, Great Barrier reef cruises,

Aquariums, Wonderworld, Waterworld, art galleries, crop sites such as avocado farms, peanuts, bananas, mango, sugar cane, winery, macadamia nuts, pineapples and THE ginger plantation of which there is only one.The natural aviary on the far south Queensland coast is a must see because the wild multicoloured parrots swoop down for feeding and sit on your shoulder quite happily. A wonderful experience.