The Highway One Travel Companion - 4: Port Macquarie to QLD Border

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Australia's Highway One is a part of the life experience for most Australians. It's our great coastal highway, tracing out our coastline. Very many of us live on or near it and travel on some part of it every day. It reaches into and through and links every State. At over 14, kilometres in length it's the world's longest national highway and to drive it is truly one of the world's great road trip adventures. Highway One grew out of a highly variable collection of local, regional and State roads.

Over time, the growing need for a rational system for the construction and maintenance of efficient and safe arterial highways across State borders led to increasing Federal Government involvement. Highway One was born in out of this already-existing network of State roads and became National Route 1 in the then-new National Route system. Like pearls on a necklace, the length of Highway One is studded with pretty and uniquely Australian small towns, but huge sections of the old road have been bypassed and nearly forgotten over the decades.

Former Salvation Army Church in Gympie. The Valley Rattler steam train runs regularly through the picturesque Mary Valley and is a major Gympie tourist attraction. Gympie's classic Railway Hotel ask about the mystery ashes!

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A lovely heritage home on Old Highway One in Gympie,. Gympie's St Patricks Catholic Church graces the hill above down town. Gympie's beautiful old Uniting Church Gympie Town Hall The old road used to continue through Curra on Atkinson Rd and cross the boggy ground and railway line before turning back north onto Harvey Siding Rd.

As the old bridge is long gone, the road must now be explored in two sections. The Old Highway One former bridge site at Curra. The "Gootchie" former and abandoned Old Highway One alignments is a rewarding and complex set of old alignment ghosts, traces and fragments to explore, although many of the abandoned fragments are on private property. This old concrete road section is so durable that although it has been decades since this road carried traffic it would still be drivable; it just needs the grass to be mown - it even has the centre line still visible in places!

Molteno Rd is in good condition and driveable right through to the road closure at about 1. Hemmings Rd is a classic piece of abandoned Old Highway One. Known as Queensland's Heritage City, Maryborough pop. Maryborough abounds with historic and colonial buildings and with a healthy scattering of classy art deco highlights as well.

Don't miss the legendary country-style steaks and other meals at the historic local hotels - this was a lunch-time feast at the Post Office Hotel. The motel's slogan is "Where you're treated like one of the gang! Lovely Art Deco second storey above a Maryborough shop. Imposing Maryborough City Hall. Historic Maryborough Courthouse.

Maryborough's magnificent Criterion Hotel. The former Bells Vue Hotel in Maryborough appears to have been quite substantial at one time but no more. The Dominion Milling Company was obviously a big operation in Maryborough once. The faded sign on the roof says "The Old Millhouse Bowerbird Nest" and it appears to be a big second hand goods site now. This is the former Engineers Arms Hotel in Maryborough, built On the ground floor of the historic Bank of New South Wales building, the Maryborough Family Heritage Institute holds one of the largest collections of genealogy records in Queensland, covering the immigrant passengers into Queensland and cemetery and burial records for a number of Queensland areas.

Maryborough's Mary River looking from historic Wharf St.

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Howard and the "Triplets". Until the s, Old Highway One used to do a quaint dogleg via "The Triplets" former alignment east across the railway line and through the "triplets"; Torbanlea pop.

These three small historic towns date back to the s and together form a service centre for the surrounding sugar, citrus and other agricultural industry. Be sure to check out the interesting murals at the Coalfields Cafe in Howard.

Howard's historic Brooklyn House Historic Grand Hotel in Howard. Recently recognised as "Queensland's best heritage town", Childers pop. Dating back to the s, its history has been marked by two fire events; a blaze in razed one side of the main street and more recently a tragic fire killed 15 young backpackers in Childers' stylish Federal Hotel Childers' two storey R. Step into the past at the Pharmaceutical Museum located in the heart of Childers. An unique collection dating back to the s. The Paragon Theatre in Childers is highly intact and still showing pictures.

The Hotel Childers, although heavily modified in the s, dates way back to the late s. The striking School of Arts building in Bundaberg. As William Neville Scott is said to have so eloquently stated: Bundaberg's unusual eight-storey East Water Tower is prominent on the skyline.

The complex is one of the quirkier ones we'll encounter on our journey! The Mystery Craters at South Kolan The Gin Gin Museum complex is interesting and comprehensive. The Post Office is a great example of the timber-built Queensland variety. The old alignment quickly enters private property. There is still plenty of evidence of the old bitumen, and even traces of the centre line, on the old Gindoran abandoned alignment. Best viewed at x The Web My Site.