Gold Coast to Rockhampton road trip: Distance, drive time & stops
Gold Coast to Rockhampton road trip: Bundaberg and Childers
The next probable detour is Bundaberg, where Queensland’s most famous rum is made. Taste it on the Bundaberg Rum distillery tours. You can also go for turtle-watching at Mon Repos, beach time at Bargara or strawberry-picking at Tinaberries,.
Excellent value Bundaberg accommodation includes the Villa Mirasol Motor Inn, Bundaberg Spanish Motor Inn and Bundaberg Big4 Cane Village Holiday Park.
6 Bundaberg experiences to make the most of your free time
- (Highly recommended ✅) Tour – with tastings – at the Bundaberg rum distillery.
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Day trip to Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Fly out to Lady Elliot Island for a day on the reef.
- See migrating humpbacks – on a four hour whale watching cruise with lunch.
- Brewery tasting tour – including the famous Bundaberg ginger beer.
- Farm life experience at Splitters Farm.
Keep along Bruce Highway, though, and you’ll reach to heritage town Childers, home of the Snakes Downunder reptile park. A little further along are Good Night Scrub National Park from Gin Gin, and fishing favourite Lake Monduran.
Click through for the next section: Agnes Water and Gladstone.