Noosa to Airlie Beach road trip: Distance, drive time & best stops
Best stops on a Noosa to Airlie Beach road trip: Bundaberg and Childers
In terms of detours on a Noosa to Airlie Beach road trip, the next major temptation is Bundaberg. Here you can taste Australia’s most-beloved rum on the Bundaberg Rum distillery tours. You can also watch turtles give birth or hatch at Mon Repos, enjoy some time on the beach at Bargara, or go 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.
Stick to the highway, though, and you’ll reach historic town Childers and the Snakes Downunder reptile park. Good Night Scrub National Park near Gin Gin, and fishing-friendly Lake Monduran, are a little further along
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