Queensland Holidays - Destinations - Goondiwindi

The Macintyre River announces your arrival to Queensland and there to greet you is Goondiwindi, home to legendary racehorse Gunsynd, 'the Goondiwindi Grey'.

Spend a day enjoying this pretty border town. Visit the Gunsynd statue near the historic Border Bridge and the Customs House before taking a stroll along the river walk.

The Botanic Gardens is a terrific place for a picnic with plenty of van parking and a lake for recreational fishing. There's a couple of great little drives if time permits - like Macintyre Falls to the east and Boobera Lagoon to the south-west with its important dreamtime site for the local Indigenous people.

Next stop is Moonie, the oil capital of inland Australia before the tiny settlement of The Gums. Consider camping a night at the Gums Nature Reserve. The seasonal lagoon and Brigalow scrub attracts many birds and the resident kangaroos lie idly in the shade as you enjoy maybe one of the cheapest games of golf in the country. A round on The Gums nine-hole bush golf course only costs only a couple of dollars!

A short detour 55 km west, on the outskirts of Glenmorgan, is the internationally recognised Myall Park Botanic Garden. Birthplace of the Grevillea Robyn Gordon, the garden presents Queensland's oldest collection of Australian semi-arid flora.

On the way stop at Meandarra, home to an extensive display of military equipment. The fascinating display is on a modern broad acre, dry land farming and grazing property. A number of artefacts including a Canberra Bomber and Water Buffalo are on permanent display at key locations around the town.

Caliguel Lagoon, a mere 7km south of Condamine is an excellent free camping site and if your stay is during late summer and autumn rare purple water lilies bloom across the lagoon's tranquil waters enticing dragonflies by the dozen.

Condamine, the home of the Condamine Bell is well admired in the fishing scene and tales of big ones being pulled onto the bank are all 'for real', they say.