Gold Coast to Yeppoon road trip: Distance, drive time & stops
Gold Coast to Yeppoon 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,.
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.
Excellent value Bundaberg accommodation includes the Villa Mirasol Motor Inn, Bundaberg Spanish Motor Inn and Bundaberg Big4 Cane Village Holiday Park.
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.