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Tourist Information ~ Port Macquarie NSW Australia
Australian East Coast Tourism Mid North Coast New South Wales
When you stay at Telegraph Retreat your hosts, Robyn and Ian, will assist you with tour bookings so you can make the most of your Port Macquarie holiday getaway. Below are some recommended tour ideas and suggestions... [also see tourism links and accommodation & tour packages].
Port Macquarie lies a short 5 minute drive off the Pacific Highway on the mid north coast of New South Wales, and has many award winning tourism attractions and holiday activities for people of all ages.
Visitors can discover rainforest waterfalls, bush tracks, rivers and reserves with Australian Wilderness Tours. Various art galleries and potteries, vineyards, cafes and tea houses, antique dealers, a rare plant & animal nursery and furniture makers abound. A unique herbal establishment, macadamia nut farm and an Australian wildlife park where koalas can be patted daily are all hidden amongst some of the North Coast's most beautiful and diverse hinterland countryside.
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 Sub Tropical Rainforests Mid North Coast NSW Australia |
Port Macquarie Beaches Mid North Coast NSW Australia |
Partake in the pleasures offered by Port Macquarie. There are beautiful beaches, water sports, fishing, golf courses, enchanting rainforests and of course a multitude of restaurants and cafes to choose from.
If adventure is your passion, packages including canoeing, horse riding, four-wheel-drive tours, sky diving, microflights, paragliding, hang gliding, parasailing, jet-ski hire, go-karting, a SCUBA dive training school, paintball / skirmish, abseiling, indoor rock climbing, laser skirmish and Harley Davidson trike tours.
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Coast to Coast Trike Tours special half hour tour $80 for 2 guests with pick-up from Telegraph Retreat.
Deep sea fishing and seasonal whale watching-not to be missed - cruises are easily arranged with Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures. Don't miss the Fighter Flight Centre which offers fighter jet flights for civilians.
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 Harley Davidson Trike Tours Port Macquaire NSW |
 Timbertown Heritage Theme Park Mid North Coast NSW |
Port Macquarie was first settled in 1821 as a penal colony and soon after developed as a major sawmilling area. At Timbertown Heritage Theme Park one can absorb and experience the history of Australian yesteryear where the atmosphere of living in a town in the heart of timber country over 100 years ago continues today. Timbertown offers special children's entertainment programs over school holidays.
The district has significant historical sites to visit including a convict built church (the only one of its type remaining in Australia), courthouse, historical museum, Douglas Vale Homestead & Vineyard, Roto House with koala hospital and Lake Innes Ruins.
Across the highway from Port Macquarie, you'll find Wauchope, the capital of Port Macquarie's Hinterland. Visit an old fashioned country department store, art and craft galleries such as Blue Poles Café. Spend some time in the ol' colonial days at Timbertown Heritage Theme Park, visit the Hastings Farmers Market held the 4th Saturday of each month at Wauchope and the Billabong Koala Breeding Centre with their hands-on koala patting and feeding and extensive display of Australian native wildlife.
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The Port Macquarie, mid north coast region of NSW Australia is a wine tasters treat with a variety of locally made wines. Enjoy regular Jazz concerts at the Bago Vineyards, on the second Sunday of each month, or the relaxed atmosphere of the excellent restaurant at the Cassegrain Vineyards on the highway or the Little Fish restaurant at the Inneslake Vineyards. Relaxing half day escorted wine tours are available.
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 Port Macquarie Visitors Centre NSW Australia |
 Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures Water Bus Everglade Tours |
Explore the waterways of the Mid North Coast NSW aboard the Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures amazing Water Bus Everglade Tours cruise boats.
Cruise along the Hastings River through dairy farms, vineyards and forests past islands and serene beaches, dolphin watching on your way to historic Timbertown, Oyster World, and The Everglades. Or hire a canoe, BBQ or Picnic boat and take the family for a leisurely cruise from Jordan's Boating Centre.
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Stoney Park Watersports and Recreation Complex at Telegraph Point, Port Macquarie NSW consists of two man-made international competition standard water-ski lakes designed for all water-sports enthusiasts.
You can learn to water-ski incorporating flips on a wakeboard or trick ski, run the slalom course and the jump, learn perfect knee-boarding or bare-footing all from qualified staff.
No need to worry about equipment, the Stoney Park Ski School provides all you need.
Telegraph Retreat can organise all your Port Macquarie region tour bookings and the exciting tours will treat you to the high adventure or gentle eco-tourism tours of your choice.
Explore the NSW's North Coast Australian wineries, rainforests, National Parks, mountains, beaches and waterways by 4WD, or boat.
Check the Accommodation & Tour Packages for Port Macquarie tour specials (includes horse riding and water sports at Stoney Park).
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Jordan's Boating Centre Hastings River Port Macquarie Boat Hire
Stoney Park Watersports and Recreation Port Macquarie NSW |
 Port Macquarie NSW Tours Scenic Seaplane Flight |
You can elect to take a Scenic Seaplane Flight from Port Macquarie and follow the stunning NSW North Coast coastline, taking in the Tacking Point lighthouse and nearby seaside villages.
The flight then climbs higher into the north coast hinterlands with their vivid scenery blend from the mountains down into the everglades before following the pristine waterway of the Wilson River back towards the coast, where you can arrange to be met by your hosts to be chauffeured to your luxury cottage retreat accommodation at Telegraph Point. Alternatively, the seaplane can collect you from the Wilson River nearby the Retreat, and you can choose your own flight plan to experience any of our region from the air.
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Telegraph Retreat Luxury Cottage Accommodation is a short five minute drive to the waterways of the Wilson River.
The Wilson River offers boating enthusiasts excellent fishing and water skiing, as well as picturesque scenery for cruising.
Using the waterways, visitors are able to cruise their way by boat to Port Macquarie, and further out to sea, for some spectacular ocean fishing.
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Wilson River Australian North East Coast New South Wales
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Water Sports and Boating Port Macquarie Region on the Mid North Coast of NSW |
Waterskiing on Wilson River near Wauchope / Port Macquarie |
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