27 - 29 June
Tamborine Mountain Scarecrow Festival
Tamborine Mountain
‘The Green behind the Gold’ will be the host of the Inaugural Scarecrow Festival on Tamborine Mountain.
Visitors to the mountain will see many dozens of locally created scarecrows lined up along a circular 14 kilometer road trail. Visitors are invited to count the scarecrows to enter a competition to win a luxurious weekend at Songbirds.
Special Guest Nikki Webster will be reading stories on the Sunday of the Scarecrow Festival, together with Auntie Lynn of Magical Scarecrows. Buskers, Musicians and entertainers will be on hand to add to the festival atmosphere.
Shops, accommodation, cafes and other facilities will be open and visitors may take the time out to visit the beautiful national parks and the natural environment of the mountain. The community at large is involved, business, residents, community groups and schools.
Tamborine Mountain
How to get there: The Scarecrow trail is all over the mountain. Access possible from each of the roads leading to Tamborine Mountain. Signs all over the place. More information at the visitors Information Centre, Doughty Park.
Event details
- Type:
- Public
- Cost:
- Free
- Website:
- http://www.tamborinemountainscarecrowfestival.com.au/
- Telephone:
- +61 75545 1873
- Email:
- bernhard@tamborinemountainscarecrowfestival.com.au
- Address:
-
Long Rd
Tamborine Mountain QLD 4272 - Time:
- 12.00pm 27th June - 4.00pm 29th June
Event location
Tamborine Mountain information
Tamborine district encompasses North Tamborine, Eagle Heights, Mt Tamborine.
Long a favourite for romance and weddings with cosy hideaways, day spas and cabins, Tamborine will work its magic to find a place in your heart.
Only 30 minutes from central Gold Coast beaches, Tamborine National Park is Queensland’s first national park reserve.
Unusual cycads which are relics of plants from 150 million years ago grow on the mountain.
The rare Albert’s lyrebird, the world’s largest skink and birdwing butterflies are some of the natives you could meet on a Tamborine visit.
Picnic at The Knoll and Witches Falls, see cycads at Zamia Grove or check out the landscape on a lookout.
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