If you are spending the weekend camping with the family at Murphys Creek Escape and looking for some local day tours to explore the best the Lockyer Valley has to offer. Then this is a great starting point for your family. The guide provides a range of educational alternatives and bush experiences for a complete Australian native experience.
You won’t need a massive budget to visit any places around the Lockyer Valley making these options ideal for family campers around South East Queensland. Everyone likes to try new things and this guide provides you with a number of new tours to choose from.
Native Oz Bush Foods Tours
Native Bushfood: https://nativeozbushfoods.com.au/collections
Tour Bookings: https://book.bookeasy.com/native-oz-bushfoods/tours/141468
This is a cool new experience to try around the Lockyer Valley. Offering education about Australian Native fauna and flora with an onsite fruit shop. A really cool experience for any school groups, groups of families, backpackers or really anyone in fact wanting a half day tour offer a unique true Australian experience. They have two tours on offer:
Address: 486 Ropeley Rockside Rd, Ropeley QLD 4343
Tour 1 – Standard Bushfood Eco Experience – (90 Minutes)
Tour one is the Standard Bushfood Eco Experience which goes for 90 minutes. This tour combines Australian indigenous experiences such as smoking ceremony and acknowledgement to country, with an educational tour around the gardens and orchards with the owners of the land.
The complete bushfood inspired morning tea – tasty fresh scones with native jam of choice, tea and coffee included. The tour will finish with access to farm sales and gift shop located onsite at the Bushfoods farm. Alternatively you can also access their shop online.
Includes: smoking ceremony, aboriginal acknowledgement to country, educational tour around gardens and orchards
Tour Bookings: https://book.bookeasy.com/native-oz-bushfoods/tours/141468
Tour 2 – Deluxe Bushfood Exo Experience – (2 Hours)
Get the ultimate bushfood experience with a 2 hour tour at Native Oz Bushfoods. This tour combines indigenous experiences including a smoking ceremony and acknowledgement to country, with an educational tour and talk around the gardens and orchards with founders. You will have access to farm sales and the gift shop located onsite at the Bushfood farm. You will have the opportunity to get your hands a little dirty and plant a native Australian tree.
Includes: smoking ceremony, aboriginal acknowledgement to country, educational tour around gardens and orchards
Tour Bookings: https://book.bookeasy.com/native-oz-bushfoods/tours/141468
9Dorf Farms
Tour 1 – Farm Tour – Chicken and Fish Farms
Address: 542 Flagstone Creek Rd, Lilydale QLD 4344
Note: Farm tours that are hosted on the first Sunday of each month.
9Dorf Farms are a 4th generation family owned business farming in the fertile Lockyer Valley. The Neuendorf family have been farming in the fertile Lockyer Valley since 1918 originally dairying and then moving on to lucerne/fodder and horticulture. 9Dorf Farms opens it’s gates for public tours and gives visitors a taste of life on a working property. You will have an opportunity to experience a diverse farm, touring the fish shed at feeding times then off through the lucerne crops to our paddocks where our chickens are roaming in the sunshine and our cattle are grazing on our pasture.
The have knowledgeable farmers that will teach you the intricate process of fish farming in a recirculating system, the back to basics of pastured chickens and beef and aim to educate our audience on ethical and sustainable farming. This is a hands on tour and you will be able to feed the poddy calves in the nursery, collect the eggs out in the paddock and even catch a fish the easy way!
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Fordsdale Horseback Adventures
Tour 1 – Horse Riding Tour – Parent and Child – (90 Minutes)
Address: 171 Wagners Rd, Fordsdale QLD 4343
They can take groups of friends or families, young and old, on our daily 90 min ride which is conducted at 3 different time slots. 9.00am, 11.30am and 2.00pm. Children who are younger than 16 years will need to have had riding lessons with an instructor at another riding facility before riding with us as we do not have an arena at our property.
Escape to the country for an unforgettable adventure of horse trail riding and relaxation for your Fordsdale Events at our picturesque 1,000-acre property in the heart of the Lockyer Valley. Choose from a variety of packages and options. Make new friends. Enjoy our meals including hearty breakfasts, picnic lunches, traditional billy teas and BBQ’s by the fire. If you are a horse lover and always wanted to go on a weekend horse riding adventure they have schedulged packages such as: Weekend Horse Riding Adventure, All Day Ride, Sunday Morning 2 hour Trail Ride.
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