Qld Guides | Scenic - December 2022

DECEMBER

December is here and it’s a festive time of year. With so much to see and do in the Scenic Rim, here are some events not to be missed in the region.

One Night in Tuscany

Boonah Cultural Centre, Boonah FRI, 2 DEC 10:00am

Join Opera Eagle’s Nest as they present a morning of Neapolitan songs and Opera Arias, duets and ensemble on Friday, 2 December 2022, at 11.00am, Boonah Cultural Centre.

This is an uplifting tribute to the romance and passion of the great Italian Operas. Be transported to the picturesque villages, castles, villas and vineyards of the hills of Tuscany, the mystery and elegance of Venice, and the timeless majesty of Rome with such immortal classics as: O Sole Mio, Mambo Italiano, La Donna e Mobile; Seguidilla, Barcarolle; Vissi d’ Aarte; Una Voce Poco Fa, Cielo e Mar; Nessun Dorma; Time To Say Goodbye; and, Amigos Para Siempre.

Sing along in your best Andrea Bocelli, or Dean Martin voice, with Arrivederci Roma, and others. Tickets are $16 or $12.50 for groups with 10 or more.

For more information & to purchase tickets, head to the website, liveatthecentre.com.au

Christmas Craft Adult Workshop

Beaudesert Library, Beaudesert FRI, 2 DEC 10:00am

Get ready for the Christmas countdown by attending these fun, friendly and easy crafting workshops designed for adults. Come along to the Beaudesert Library and learn how to make beautiful handmade Christmas decorations with this fun, hands on workshop! Other dates include Monday, 12th December from 10am.

All materials are provided and registration is required. To register, visit the Discover Scenic Rim Libraries website, scenicrim. spydus.com.

Full Moon Women’s Circle and Cacao Ceremony

Healing Evolution Counselling Centre; 17 Davies St, Kalbar QLD THURS, 8 DEC 6:15pm

Create a connection to a community of likeminded women and share a scared experience under the full moon. Embrace the guidance of Cacao ceremony as you set an intention for the evening and hold space in this special circle. Open your connection to self and the universe as you experience a feast for the senses.

Participants are asked to bring a water bottle and an open heart. Tickets are $25. For more information about the event and to purchase tickets, visit events.humanitix.com

Christmas Party 2022

Kalbar School of Arts & Memorial Hall, 63 Edward St, Kalbar, Qld SAT, 10 DEC 11:30am

Get into the festive spirit this December at the annual Christmas Party at the Kalbar School of Arts & Memorial Hall. Come along and join in the celebration. This party will take place over 2 days – 10th and 11th December, from 11:30am to 5pm.

Tickets are $45 for adults and $15 for children aged 7-18. Tickets include a drink on arrival, 2 course lunch, cash bar as well as tea and coffee. To purchase tickets for the event, visit the trybooking website, www. trybooking.com/events/landing/984830.

A Holly Jolly Holiday

Curtis Rd & Long Rd, Tamborine Mountain SAT, 10 DEC 11:00am

Deck the Halls This Christmas! Come along and take part in this fun, festive day filled with dancing, singing, market stalls, food trucks and all things Christmas! The day starts at 11am when the gates open and the Christmas concert begins at 1pm for a 5pm finish. Before the show and during the interval, people will be able to browse the market stalls, food trucks, kids bauble painting, Santa photos, face painting and maybe even spot a few cheeky elves running around! Continue next page

Tickets are $30. Visit Eventbrite to purchase tickets. Everyone is welcome to come along to this family friendly event. We hope to see you jolly soon!

Tamborine Mountain Country Markets

Tamborine Mountain Showgrounds, Tamborine Mountain SUN, 11 DEC 7:30am

Held on the second Sunday of the month, the Tamborine Mountain Country Markets is a unique shopping event at Tamborine Mountain Show Grounds. Homemade, hand-crafted, homegrown and unique items to treat yourself or for gifts. Make a day of it, there is great food, and fabulous coffee.

Salty Saturdays Oyster Night

Witches Falls Winery SAT, 10 DEC 3:00pm

Spend your Saturday afternoons shucking and sipping in splendour at Witches Falls Winery for Salty Saturdays. You’re invited to head to Witches Falls’ cellar door in Tamborine every second Saturday from 3:00-7:00 pm. Once you’re here, get ready to feast on fresh oysters and sample some wine and cider while enjoying live music as the sun sets.

The event is free to attend, though they recommend pre-booking your oysters to avoid missing out. Oysters can be purchased for $25 per dozen as pre-sale or $30 per dozen on the day (depending on availability). With the oysters sorted, be sure to do a curated wine tasting for $10 per person, or sip on a signature cider tasting for $16 per person. If you’re extra hungry, you are also welcome to graze on a range of cheese and wine accompaniments available on the day.

The best bit? Witches Falls is pet friendly, so your furry friends don’t need to miss out on the fun!

For more information and to stay up to date on upcoming events, visit their website, witchesfalls.com.au/pages/upcoming-events.

Do your fruit and veg shopping at the fantastic fresh produce stalls, indulge in freshly made cakes, snack on hot nuts, or stock up on homemade jams, relishes, chutneys, and sauces. There are great woodwork stalls, clothing stalls, jewellery, candles and soaps. Onsite parking is available for a gold coin donation, which will go towards supporting local community groups.

Stay tuned with the latest news and updates, via their Facebook page, @ tamborinemountaincountrymarkets

Little Humpty's Christmas Party

Summer Land Camels, Harrisville WED, 14 DEC 9:00am

Join us for a Christmas Party like no other. Evie, Henry and our other camels really know how to PARTY and they want all their little friends to come along! With Christmas activities and Christmas-flavoured gelato available, plus

we’ll even have a visit from Santa - arriving approx 10:30am and 12pm.

Come along in your best Christmas getupprizes will be awarded for the best dressed. Make sure you bring your camera to get the perfect Christmas shot with your favourite camel! Please wear closed shoes and a smile. There will be plenty of activities for the whole family to enjoy – including kids farm tours, patting and cuddling the camels and so much more … You can even ride a camel!

To book visit https://bit.ly/humptyrides. For more information on the upcoming event, head to their Facebook page, @Summer Land Camels.

on the day – so come play! Entry is free and everyone is welcome to come along.

To register for the event, visit Eventbrite website, www.eventbrite.com.au

Hippyfest 2022

Tamborine Memorial Hall, Tamborine SAT, 17 DEC 10:00am

HIPPY FEST 2022 is coming to Tamborine Memorial Hall on Saturday 17th December 10am to 4pm spreading Peace and Love! Hippy Santa will be stopping on by just in time for you to take some epic last minute Christmas photos and of course you'll be able to snap up some X-Mas special bargains too!

Come along, peace out and experience yummy food, awesome vibes, colour, flowers and groovy good times, while you browse stalls galore! Get dressed in your best Hippy Attire and WIN Goodies. Somewhere inside there is a Flower Child hiding in all of us!!

It's gonna be a gorgeous day!! There is so much to see and do on the day – with chill out zones and lots of activity nooks - spiritual gurus, psychics and healers all stepping back in time, even experience real time art getting created

Christmas Craft Wooden Peg Ornaments

Beaudesert Library, Beaudesert TUES, 20 DEC 4:00pm

What did one snowman say to the other snowman? Do you smell carrots?

Add the final touches to your Christmas Tree with this fun craft. Come along to the Beaudesert Library and learn how to make reindeer, snowmen, angels and more out of wooden pegs and Christmasy craft bits!

Suitable for children of all ages. All materials are provided and registration is required. To register, visit the Discover Scenic Rim Libraries website, scenicrim.spydus.com

ADVENTURE DESIGNED BY NATURE!

Scenic Rim’s motto has always been to make visitors feel on top of the world. Sharing spectacular landscapes, six national parks, World Heritage-listed Gondwana Rainforests, eco-adventures, fresh local produce, wines and beverages, and colourful characters has won Scenic Rim the most amazing accolades that includes – one of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 regions in the world to visit in 2022.

Come and feel what award-winning means.

Nightfall

Located on the wild edge of World Heritage Lamington National Park, beside the crystalclear headwaters of Christmas Creek, The Nightfall ‘glamping’ experience replaces the crowds and complexities of everyday life with a slower pace. Luxury is redefined by architectinspired, hand-built, permanent safari tents, sumptuous home-grown organic food cooked on the wood fire with personalised service by your hosts, Steve and Jaide. It is a relaxed environment where you will feel as if you are staying with friends.

Nightfall is a unique nature immersion, an elemental experience like no other, with soaring cliffs, lush forests, crystal clear tumbling waters, campfire and a night sky filled with millions of stars. These are conducive to reconnection, relaxation and rejuvenation. Steve and Jaide Nightfall’s hosts intend to connect heart, body and spirit to nature through a nurtured immersion in this natural environment in a sustainable way evoking lasting memories.

The Nightfall experience is limited to only eight adults at any one time, ensuring privacy, intimacy and conviviality. Couples relish the seclusion of their private luxury safari tents.

Mt Barney Lodge Country Retreat

For those wanting to explore on their own, the surrounding national park offers spectacular views, endangered wildlife, rare plants and cascading rivers all at the back door of Mt Barney Lodge.

Tommerups Dairy Farm

Only 90 minutes drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast Nestled amongst the foothills of World Heritage-listed, Mt Barney National Park, Mt Barney Lodge is a unique country escape that offers a variety of Eco Accredited adventure activities, as well as optional accommodation options. Their award-winning activities are diverse, educational, and are tailored to suit participants of different ages, fitness levels and abilities.

Activities range from:

• Rock Adventures – Beginner and Advanced Rock Climbing, Intro to Lead Climbing, Abseiling

• Guided Mountain Expeditions – Mt Barney, Mt Greville

• Hikes + History – Westrays Grave/Larapinta Falls, Stinson Wreck, Mt Superbus and the Lincoln Bomber wreck

• Eco Hikes – Sunset Eco and Bushtucker Tour

Tommerup’s Dairy Farm, a sixth-generation working dairy farm providing visitors with genuine farm experiences, warm country hospitality, charming farmhouse accommodation and an escape from the hectic pace of city life. Completely unique experiences await; an authentic ‘Paddock to Plate’ journey. Located just 75 minutes from Brisbane and the Gold Coast in the picturesque Lost World region of Scenic Rim, Tommerup’s Dairy Farm is perfect for your next holiday.

The 200-acre farm is home to dairy cattle, pigs, sheep and more and of course, your farmer hosts, The Tommerup family. Milking cows in a real working dairy is always a thrill for children and adults alike. Don’t miss joining in on the daily animal feeding and egg collecting.

Visit Tommerup’s Farm Larder where you’ll find artisan dairy products produced on the farm, by the farmers, ethically raised Heritage breed free-range pork, Rose Veal, Gourmet Ice Cream and Tommy’s Pastured Eggs all from the Tommerup’s Farm. Tommerup’s Farm Larder is open by arrangement or specified open days only.

For further information & links, visit qldguides.com.au

Beaudesert

Beaudesert or Beauy to locals is situated where the Mount Lindesay Highway intersects the road from Nerang to Boonah and lies between the Logan and Albert Rivers. This quaint country town is filled to the brim with authentic rural experiences.

Craving some down-to-earth people? A destination where you can take your time and have a yarn with a local? Wander down an uncrowded main street? Enjoy a cold beer in a country pub? Built off the back of the wool industry, Beaudesert's history is as golden as its landscape.

Situated in the Logan Valley, the land was held on behalf of a Bathurst grazier, William Henry Suttor. Named by a sheep farmer around 1841, the origins of Beaudesert's name have been the subject of debate for many years.

These versions range from "Beau Desert" meaning beautiful desert to "Beau Desert" being derived from the Cistercian Monastery, Beau Desir, in Staffordshire, England.

Regardless of the interpretation of the origins of the word Beaudesert, it remains a beautiful and prosperous country area in which to live.

In 1851, W.D. White acquired the site and built a homestead on the present site of the Beaudesert township.

Farm selections in the Logan Valley began in the late 1860s and the Beaudesert pastoral station was resumed for settlement. A Beaudesert township was surveyed and the first sale of town blocks took place in 1874. By 1880 Beaudesert boasted a hotel, blacksmiths, saddlers and a post office. During the 1880s, a provisional school was opened in Beaudesert and Michael Enright opened a small store, the forerunner of a provincial department store, which in the 1970s still had the largest retail floor space of any shop in Beaudesert.

Photo: Brisbane Street in1908

In anticipation of a railway extension, the Railway Hotel was opened in 1887. When the line from Bethania Junction opened the following year Beaudesert was positioned to become the provincial centre for the upper Logan and Albert River Valleys and farm communities as far south as the McPherson Ranges over the New South Wales border.

In the 1890s and the first years of the new century a Catholic church, a convent and a school were opened, a cottage hospital (1900) was built and the Logan and Albert Agricultural and Pastoral Association was established (1895). A butter factory, the Logan and Albert Co-operative, was opened in 1904.

In 1912, the town became a separate municipality but re-united with the shire in 1929. In 1927, a Rural school was opened, shortly followed by a secondary department in 1954. Ten years later, a separate State High School opened.

By the mid-1980s Beaudesert's population was 4000, prompting the opening of a drive-in shopping centre (1987) with a supermarket, discount department store and 20 shops. Now, according to the 2021 Estimated Resident Population for Beaudesert - Kooralbyn and District, Beaudesert is home to 9,081 people.

Today, Beaudesert is a tight-knit, active community with a broad range of goods, services and local businesses. Here is a selection of iconic local businesses that make up the Beaudesert community.

Mitre

Mitre 10 Beaudesert has been involved in our local community for 58 years and going strong. We have catered for our customers through selecting a range of products that spans old favourites, everyday needs, technology, building materials, homewares items and most of all our Garden Centre.

We have many staff with Industry and trade experience that can help out if you’re not sure how to tackle your next project. Our store is well laid out with plenty of interesting displays. Parking is via our Anna Street entrance, so take the scenic drive and experience our country service.

“We are more than just a Hardware Store”.

Mitre 10 Beaudesert is located 24-26 William St, Beaudesert. Ph: (07) 5541 1888

The Desert Skin & Beauty

Welcome to The Desert Skin & Beauty!

Kymberly and her team are dedicated to empowering you to feel confident and comfortable in your skin.

Their focus is on skin therapies such as facials, peels, oxygen treatments, radio frequency skin tightening and IPL. Additionally, body waxing, tinting, lash lifting and relaxation treatments are also available.

Photo: Beaudesert Tramway station in 1927

10 Beaudesert

The Desert Skin & Beauty use and prescribe cosmeceutical professional grade products to get the best possible results and pride themselves on the high quality of service they provide in all aspects of their businesses.

For more information about The Desert Skin & Beauty and their services, visit the website, www.thedesertskinandbeauty.au.

Edge provides quality education and care for children aged from 6-weeks to school age by instilling a love for learning through play-based experiences.

Edge Beaudesert is located at 10 Telemon St, Beaudesert QLD 4285. To book a tour visit https://edgeearlylearning.com.au/beaudesert/

Edge Early Learning Beaudesert

Edge Early Learning Beaudesert delivers exceptional childcare and kindergarten programs that enable children to discover their potential and start school with a love of learning.

Purpose-built with state-of-the-art facilities, Edge Early Learning Beaudesert has a passionate and experienced team of educators who deliver tailored programs that prepare children for school socially, emotionally and developmentally.

Edge Early Learning Beaudesert has spacious and engaging indoor learning spaces with modern resources, and multiple outdoor play areas featuring bike tracks, climbing forts, water play stations and more. Indoor features include facial recognition security, modern classrooms and ateliers; a special resource to encourage and harness children’s creativity from a young age.

Have you heard about the new restaurant in Beauy? James and his team from Ned’s Restaurant opened its doors earlier this year and has quickly become a favourite amongst both locals and visitors. Located on Brisbane Street, right in the heart of Beaudesert, the restaurant was named in honour of Edward ‘Ned’ Hawkins who can be credited for naming the area in around 1841.

Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Sunday, James and his crew are serving up local produce from our local dairy’s, meat producers, vegetable growers and wineries. Full menu is available for dine in and takeaway.

For more information, visit their Facebook page, Ned’s Restaurant or call (07) 5541 4836 to order take away or speak to one of their lovely staff.

Ned’s Restaurant

CHRISTMAS AROUND THE GLOBE

Chuc Mung Giang Sinh, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, there many different ways to say Merry Christmas just as there are many different ways Christmas is celebrated around the world. Below you will find some interesting Christmas facts for various countries.

Japan

In 1974, as it approached to Christmas Day, KFC Japan came up with an idea by starting an advertising campaign with its long running scripts – “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii! (Kentucky for Christmas!)”. Since then, eating KFC as a Christmas time meal has become a widely practiced custom in Japan.

Iceland

Icelanders go all out on Christmas — most people start celebrating Christmas on the first day of December! There are 13 different

Santas, all named after their characteristics, such as doorslammer or candle snatcher. These different Santas deliver gifts in shoes, which people leave on their windowsill. If you are bad you’ll get something such as a potato and if your nice you will get some sort of toy or clothing item.

Slovakia

All over Central Europe, people enjoy carp for Christmas Eve Dinner. But rather than picking it up from the supermarket, traditionalists let the fish live in the bathtub for a couple of days before preparing and eating it. Legend has it, the scales bring luck and good fortune for the coming year.

Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, people celebrate Christmas, called Ganna or Genna, on January 7 in accordance with the Ethiopian Orthodox Calendar. Mass often begins with a special candelit procession, in which participants wear a thin white shawl called a Netela and process around the church three times before the service begins. They don't typically give gifts during Ganna; it's a time for church, games and of course, food.