Trip leader: Whitefreeze
Where: Stanthorpe Granite Belt region
Date: Friday - Sunday 12th - 14th August 2016
Cost: $$ for purchasing local products. Accommodation, $150.00 per night for a 13 sleeper house
Meeting area: Australiana Park, New England Highway, Warwick. First left after railway crossing, New England Highway. Next to Cleary St, Warwick
Time: 9:15am for a 9:30am departure
UHF: Channel 13
Accommodation:The Lodge @ Terab Park, Cullendore. 24 minutes (36km’s) out of Stanthorpe.
Currently available for 12 people
Hoping to be allowed to park camper trailer there, extra bedding. Full Kitchen facilities. Wood fire. Fire wood & gas supplied. BBQ facility (those who are brave enough to stand out in the cold air) 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 toilets
Instead of heading off the beaten track the bitumen will take us right into the heart of the Granite Belt wine region.
Known for its cool climate, Stanthorpe orchard and pastoralists date back to the 1840’s. Tin played a huge part during the 1840’s – 1870’s in putting Stanthorpe on the map and although the tin prices were very strong for a few years, the prices eventually dropped. The building of the railway 1886, connecting Toowoomba – Sydney provided employment for a short time but it was the orcharding that sustained economy for the town.
Grapes were first planted here in the 1860’s, encouraged on by Father Jerome Davadi, Catholic parish priest. Today there are many winery’s to visit.
Join us for the experience of tasting some of the finest well-known wines, indulge in the mouth-watering delectable Liqueurs or make the pain-staking choice over which of the 19 different types of beers to take home, all of which are brewed on site by Granite belts first Brewery. For the not-so alcoholic drinkers in mind there is a collection of delicious jams, relishes, chutneys to name a few not forgetting to mention cheese tasting from Qld’s highest & coldest dairy farm. For the kids, there’s a selection of yummy real fruit ice creams as well as hot desserts for those cold winter days. As night falls and the stars litter the night time sky, grab the opportunity to get a photo of the stars from under the Quart Pot creek rail bridge (Red bridge) may need tripod!! 106.7m in length, constructed in 1886. Sunday is market day. All the fresh fruit & veg that a true country market can produce along with the arts & crafts
Wither it is for the day or the weekend, there is an experience to be had by all. Don't forget to bring your winter woollies
