Bamboo Down Under at Wongawallan is a garden centre with a difference. The perfect weekend outing, here you can stroll through their rainforest walk, explore the meditation garden, enchanted forest and bamboo tunnel, and get bamboozled in the bamboo maze!
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Valley Espresso, Elanora
Take a stroll down the garden path beside Valley Espresso at Elanora and discover a fully fenced grassed area perfect for enjoying a coffee in the sun. Visit on a Monday or Wednesday and you'll even find a jumping castle perfect for keeping the kids busy!
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5 best shopping centre playgrounds on the Gold Coast
Looking for a shopping centre with a playground on the Gold Coast? These 5 Gold Coast shopping centres are family friendly centres with playgrounds designed to occupy the kids so you can shop, dine and play.
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Hinze Dam
While Hinze Dam is best known as the Gold Coast’s water supply, many are surprised when they visit and take in its stunning hinterland setting, with onsite View Café taking prime position to capture the breathtaking vistas. Add to this the state of the art information centre, dam wall walk, picnic grounds, pathways, fishing coves and mountain bike trails, and you’ve got yourself a great spot for locals and tourists.
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7 end of Summer Gold Coast activities for families
Did you know that there are only 4 weekends left of this Summer!? Before we know it, Winter will be here so we are packing in family activities each week before the weather changes. To help you and family to make the most of the next few weekends, I’ve rounded up a list of activities to enjoy. Hopefully some of these are just as fun for you as they are for your little ones!
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5 family friendly BBQ spots on the Gold Coast
Did you know there are more than 380 spots to have a BBQ on the Gold Coast? That’s a lot of opportunities to get out there and enjoy a sausage sizzle at one of our many great parks, beaches, creeks and rivers! With January being one of the peak months for BBQs on the Gold Coast, we’re rounding up 5 great spots that are not only great for cooking your lunch, but provide picturesque views and endless entertainment for the kids!
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Family friendly Gold Coast events to watch for in 2020
There are so many events on year round on the Gold Coast, but there are a few in particular that capture the hearts of residents and are not to be missed. Be sure to add these to your calendar and make sure to take the family for a visit! Sand Safari: 14 Feb-1 March Prepare to experience the largest and greatest sand sculpt competition that ever was, The Australian Sand Sculpting Championships (ASSC). Be amazed when 15 world-renowned sculptors, go head-to-head to take out the highly acclaimed title by creating 10-tonne sand sculpts revealing your favourite fairy tale classics. Witness an integral part of the festival happening over an intensifying…
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Coombabah Lakelands Conservation area
The Coombabah Lakelands Conservation area protects 1200 hectares of wetlands and eucalypt forest, right in the middle of the northern Gold Coast suburbs. Visit in the late afternoon to see grassy open fields bathed in golden sunlight and hundreds of kangaroos grazing on the grass!
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Sooty Owl’s Creekside Trail, Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens
Tamborine Mountain Botanic Garden's family-friendly discovery trail, Sooty Owl’s Creekside trail will intrigue, surprise and educate children and adults alike.
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Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre & Nature Play
Just 30 minutes north of the Gold Coast lies Brisbane City Council’s Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre, and Queensland’s first nature play space for kids! With an interactive self-guided experience, visitors young and old can learn about the forest and all the animals that live there. Fly over the forest in a virtual reality experience, check out the night time forest audio visual experience and catch frogs in an interactive floor projection. Once you’re finished at the Discovery Centre, kids can get back to nature in the water play, climbing features, discovery trails and sculptural artworks of the Nature Play space.
