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Explore the Mary Valley
Welcome to Cooloola's Mary Valley, located in the hinterland of the Cooloola and Sunshine Coasts. The Mary Valley is the colloquial name given to th e section of the Mary River from Gympie upstream to Kenilworth includingthe communities of Jones Hill, Kybong, Dagun, Amamoor, Kandanga, Imbil, Brooloo and Kenilworth.
We have just launched our new Gympie accommodation directory - the Bed and Breakfast Network
Visit the website at www.bnb.net.au to find out more information about our Gympie Bed and Breakfast network.
Looking for a great spot to go water skiing, freshwater fishing and camping. Look no further than Lake Borumba.
The storage level at Borumba was at 98% full as measured by Sunwater on 28/05/2008 (45,000ML of a total 46,000ML).
Lake Borumba at 83% full on Saturday 10 October 2006.
The Mary Valley makes for a wonderful self drive tour being prefectly located within a short distance of Brisbane. Leave Brisbane and after a 2 hour drive enjoy morning tea in Gympie by visiting one of the many cafes located in the historic Mary Street. (Visit www.streetsofgold.com.au for more information on Gympie's CBD and Mary Street).
After visiting Gympie, cross the Bruce Highway and take the Mary Valley Highway to Jones Hill and then on to visit Dagun, Amamoor, Kandanga and Imbil. Stop for lunch at a local cafe or an authentic country pub, the Kandange Hotel or the Railway Hotel in Imbil. After lunch, explore more of the rustic countyside and visit Lake Borumba before proceeding on to Kenilworth for the return trip to Brisbane via a scenic drive through Maleny.
We will be bringing you a district map in the near future and more images of some of the natural attractions that are not to be missed on your visit to the Mary Valley. Visit our Google map page to view the Mary Valley road network and help you plan your scenic tour.
History
The Mary River is a river system in South East Queensland, Australia. The river rises at Booroobin in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, west of Caloundra. From its source, the Mary River flows north through the towns of Kenilworth, Gympie, Tiaro and Maryborough before emptying into the Great Sandy Strait, a passage of water between the mainland and Fraser Island, near the town of River Heads, 17 km south of Hervey Bay. Major tributaries of the Mary River include Obi Obi Creek and Yabba Creek.
The River was traditionally named Moocooboola by local Aborigines (the Kabi Kabi people). The river was subsequently named Wide Bay River by early European explorers. The official name was changed in 1847 (prior to Queensland becoming a separate colony) by Charles Augustus FitzRoy, then Governor of New South Wales, to Mary River — after his wife Lady Mary Lennox.
Widlife
The endangered Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus) lives in the river.Other marine life native to the river include the Queensland Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) and the endangered Mary River Cod (Maccullochella peelii mariensis).
Proposed Traveston Dam
As a result of South East Queensland's longest drought in one hundred years, the Queensland Beattie Labour Government announced on April 27, 2006 its intention to dam part of the Mary River at Traveston Crossing, south of Gympie. The Traveston storage dam is being planned to create a reservoir "almost as big as the Wivenhoe Dam" by 2011.
The proposed Traveston Dam plans show that the storage area will inundate a large area of fertile dairy farmland, endangered regional ecosystems and small towns in a footprint that is greater than 1.3 times the area of Sydney Harbour. Local Mary Valley residents oppose the dam proposal on a variety of grounds including:
- the dislocation of the local community in the inundated area
- adverse effects on downstream communities and
- environmental impacts such as removing one of the few remaining habitats for the vulnerable Queensland Lungfish, the endangered Mary River Cod and the endangered Mary RIver Turtle..
Other major engineering concerns that indicate the dam proposal is flawed include:
- the geomechanics of the proposed site are not suitable for damming due to potentially signifcant leakage as a result of the predominantly sandy substrate
- high evaporation rates as the dam is shallow and will have a very large surface area
Read more on the proposed Traveston dam here
www.maryvalley.com.au is owned and operated as a division of www.cooloolabusiness.com to support our initiatives for consolidating our website network and promoting Gympie and Cooloola. Our new website will focus on the Mary Valley from Gympie and Jones Hill, Kybong, Dagun, Amamoor, Kandanga, Imbil to Kenilworth and will provide a portal for the Valley community and businesses.
The portal will initially include tourism and promotional material and a business directory. The business directory will provide business listings and offer website development and hosting services for Valley businesses (through cooloolabusiness.com) to enable us to offer unique sub-domain websites with a real website address e.g. www.NAME.maryvalley.com.au
Free websites (no strings attached) will also be offered to Mary Valley businesses and organisations who do not currently have a website. You can view an example of our free website layout at www.NAME.maryvalley.com.au
A new sub-domain website package has been developed and will be made available at minimum cost to facilitate website ownership for Mary Valley businesses. This package includes a custom designed single web page for a once off fee of $50 and sub-domain hosting at a $50 annual fee. Business owners are welcome to design their own page or use our special $50 offer. We have provided a demonstration sub-domain at www.DEMO.maryvalley.com.au
FREE Sub-domain Websites
for Community organisations are also availble - click here for more information.
Listings (with website and email address) in the directory will be free for any businesses currently hosted or managed by cooloolabusiness.com. Members of the CRDB will also be given free listings with website and email address included. Other businesses in the Mary Valley can be provided free listings (name, address and telephone number only) by emailing business details to admin@maryvalley.com.au
Other portal features including a community events calendar will be added to meet community desires.
The Mary Valley portal is also being developed to support promotion initiatives under development by the Cooloola Regional Development Bureau for the Mary Valley to complement other recent projects undertaken by cooloolabusiness.com to promote Cooloola Shire including:
The new www.maryvalley.com.au portal is the third major website that is being developed as part of the original network map which was prepared for cooloolabusiness.com in 2001. The plan, when completed will now provide for a series of specialist portal directories created in a satellite ring around our central hub site (cooloolabusiness com). The structure for the plan was developed by a specialist consultant and has been modified based on the ground-breaking work by famous internet marketer Michael Campbell "Revenge of the Mininet" first published in 2003.
cooloolabusiness.com is locally owned business operating in Gympie since 2001 and a member of the Cooloola Regional Development Bureau.
If you would like more information on our new Mary Valley website or the Cooloolabusiness.com network, please contact:
Allan Caulfield
Email: admin@maryvalley.com.au
Phone: (07) 5482 3478
Mobile: 0409 823 478
Mary Valley Google Map
Gympie Weather
Mary Valley News at Technorati
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Mary Valley Business
www.maryvalley.com.au is owned and managed as a division of Cooloolabusiness.com Internet Business Directory (ABN 54 438 317 619).
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