There's something about "Maryborough" and listings
for other events across Queensland such as Jumpers and Jazz Festival, the
Cairns Airport Adventure Festival and many more for June.
Please note, this listing is based on events supported by Events Queensland and
is not an exhaustive list of events for this period.)
Set in one of the world's most iconic tropical locations,
the 2012 Cairns Airport Adventure Festival features 10 jam-packed days of events
for people of all ages and abilities including: Urban Hotel Group Ironman 70.3;
Coral Coast Triathlon, RRR Mountain Bike Challenge, Great Barrier Reef Ocean
Challenge, Quicksilver Reef Swim - Green Island, The Cairns Post Run for Cairns
and Challenge Junior - a triathlon designed especially for kids! Plus there's
plenty of entertainment with a free community concert.
The pinnacle event of the festival is 'Cairns Airport
Ironman Cains' a gruelling iron-distance triathlon that features a 3.8km swim,
a 180km bike leg that travels one of the most scenic coastal roads in Australia
towards Port Douglas and a 42.2km run that includes the Cairns Esplanade before
finishing in the heart of Cairns.
The Classic Country Music Stampede is a great weekend of
classic country music with some of Australia's finest artists performing live.
Artists who have confirmed their attendance for the 2012 festival include:
Craig Giles, Kinta, Ian B Macleod, Reg Poole, Laura Downing, Peter Pratt and
Lindsay Waddington, Sandy Atkinson Pedal Steel Guitar, Phil and Chris Coad, The
Band Just Jack. Camping is available at the showgrounds.
Enjoy world-class sailing held close to the shores of
Mooloolaba Beach with Olympic, World Champion and America's Cup sailors
competing in the three-day international competition.
The Jandowae Timbertown Festival is a biannual community
festival which has been held since 2001 and celebrates the contribution that
the timber industry and workers have made to the heritage and economy of
Jandowae. The festival is also a celebration of the thriving local agricultural
and manufacturing industries that sustain Jandowae, and of the many talented
and proactive community groups that make it such a great place to live, work
and play.
Separated by the Boyne River the towns of Boyne and Tannum
have united to host one of Australia's best fishing competitions. It features
not only a great contest, with boats and camping trailers up for grabs, but
entertainment from Dave Hodge (the barefoot fisherman) and top musicians as
well as the tag fish tank and excellent fishing and boating displays. The
Hookup is also a charity event with all proceeds from the competition and
merchandise going to the Bushfire Brigade.
The Cooktown Discovery Festival is an annual event held in
Cooktown, Far North Queensland, to celebrate the landing of Lt. James Cook at
the Endeavour River in 1770 and his meeting with the local Guugu Yimithirr and
Kuku Yalanji people. For 50 years, the people of Cooktown have come together
every June to celebrate this historic event by staging a fully costumed
re-enactment of Cooks landing and his time spent in this tropical paradise with
the local Bama (aboriginal people).
If you're into cycling, then Toowoomba is the place to be
for the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. You'll have the opportunity to be part of an
action packed weekend of cycling. The choice is yours - either enter the
Endeavour Challenge, a sport open to all recreational cyclists, or be there to
see the top teams in Australia compete in the grueling three day FK Gardner and
Sons Construction Tour of Toowoomba. Other highlights include a Sports Dinner.
This National Road Series three day event is an initiative of the Toowoomba
Cycling Club and supported by both Cycling Queensland and Cycling Australia.
Some call it Queensland's Grand Canyon but it's better known
as Porcupine Gorge. This event is not only to challenge serious competitors but
to give the opportunity for locals and adjoining communities to enjoy the
wonderful natural attraction of the gorge whilst walking with friends.
Competitors travel from vast distances to compete in the 8 kilometer event;
some who camp at the Gorge for the weekend enjoy more than just the challenge.
Categories include Open Men's, Ladies and Under 16 and Under 12 section for
boys and girls, with the overall winner taking pride of place on the perpetual
trophy. A special perpetual trophy is also awarded to the first local Flinders
Shire resident past the post.
Surfers Paradise Festival is an annual community celebration
of music, food, fashion, film and art and a key driver of the Gold Coast's
long-term cultural development. Across the four weekends of the festival, the
Surfers Paradise precinct becomes a dynamic, inclusive and interactive event
space and a hub of Gold Coast creativity. The free event platforms local and
international talent within the streets and venues of Surfers Paradise, across
an accessible mix of family events, exhibitions, live music, street markets and
short film screenings.
Fishing, big and small boats, engines, jet ski's, ski boats
and getting on the water... what more could a family want? At Mackay's ultimate
marine event - The Mackay Marine Festival - you will find all this and more.
The Mackay Tinnie and Tackle Show is a fantastic showcase of everything the
region's marine industry has to offer. There are also plenty of activities for
the kids from Marine and Fishing Workshops through to face painting and rock
climbing walls. Part of the Mackay Marine Festival, it's all happening at the
Mackay Marina.
Sail Mooloolaba is an annual sailing event that brings
together junior, youth and senior sailors from the east coast of Australia,
Hong Kong and New Zealand, across large and small dinghies, and monohull and
multihull keel boats, to race in a two-day regatta on the beautiful waters off
Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.
Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride
24 - 30 June 2012
Where: Cairns
Web: www.ridefnq.com
Get outback! The Coast to Coast Bike Ride began through the
Cairns School of Distance Education P&C Association in 1996/97 to initially
address the need to build a multi-purpose activity centre for the school site
in Cairns. The event is now a seven day Cairns to Karumba bike ride that will
see bicyle riders travel through the outback towns of the iconic Savannah way.
Riders can join the back along the way or travel the entire 780km ride.
Mary Poppins mania hits Maryborough, the
birthplace of author P.L. Travers, this June and July. Closet nannies emerge,
vintage prams hit the streets, there is chalk art, music, a parade and
fireworks. Here are a few little-known connections between Maryborough and
the Mary Poppins novels (of which there were eight). Did you
know that...
Travers' father was the bank manager in Maryborough just
like her character Mr Banks The building where Travers lived is just a short
stroll from Maryborough's majestic Queens Park, which bears strong resemblance
to the park of the novels near the Banks' home, frequented by Mary Poppins and
her young wards Travers' first Mary Poppins novel included a party
at the zoo among the animals.
Queens Park once housed a zoo and an aviary In
the novel and film Admiral Boom is a former naval officer who lived next door
to the Banks family and fired his cannon to mark the hours. In Maryborough,
during Travers' parents' time a cannon was fired every day at 1pm to let the
workers in the cane fields know to come in for lunch
History aside - this is
fabulous fun! Head to Maryborough in June and July and enjoy this wonderful
family festival.
