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Car Rental Emerald
- Cheap Discount Car Hire - Special Deals and Offers
Emerald is situated on the intersection of the Capricorn Highway
and the Gregory Highway section of the Great Inland Way. It looks
relatively new for a country town that was established in 1879 as
a base for the building of the western railway. This is because of
devastating fires in 1936, 1940,1954 and 1968. These disastrous events
combined with the much more welcome construction of the Fairbairn
Dam and the Emerald Irrigation Scheme in 1972, and the beginning
of large scale Bowen Basin coal mining in 1977, shaped the town into
what you see today.
Built in 1900 and restored in 1986, the National Trust listed Railway Station
with its wrought iron lacework and pillared portico is without doubt Emerald's
most photographed attraction. At the Emerald Town Hall view a fossilised tree
aged 250 million years.
Visit the world's biggest Van Gogh sunflower painting on an easel in Morton Park
- at the western end of Clermont Street, near the Visitor Information Centre
- and walk the 100 metre heritage pathway.
BARGAIN WHEELS CAR RENTAL will provide you with a reliable, reasonable price
vehicle for the drive north to get a view of the irrigation area activities;
east to see the Agricultural College or animal sanctuary and cotton farm; south
to Gindie to see the first tractor on the Central Highlands or visit a large
grain and beef property; or west to take a look at the horticultural farms -
including the 2PH Farm citrus orchard which is one of the largest in the Southern
Hemisphere - on your way to Lake Maraboon and the Fairbairn Dam.
If you want to really immerse yourself in the local Emerald and Central Highlands
culture, that can include a tour of the School of Distance Education and a native
flower farm, then a personalised conducted tour departing from the Emerald Railway
Station is the way to go.
Go with Bargain Wheels for car rental Emerald. |
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