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Wollumbin Visitor Directory
Volcano Villages - Bonalbo, Tabulum
If you make it to Tabulum or Bonalbo, you're in the Upper Clarence Valley, and well and truly in the "woop woops" of the Wollumbin Volcano.
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Wollumbin Visitor DirectoryVolcano Villages - Bonalbo, Tabulum |
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Tabulum and Bonalbo are in the Upper Clarence Valley, well and truly in the "back blocks" of the Wollumbin Volcano. The primary attraction for settlement in the area was due to the discovery of gold in the mid 1800's. Dairying and cattle raising, some timber milling, and a growing camping and wilderness lodge style of tourism are now the mainstays. Activities in the area include guided canoe tours, canoe hire, horse riding, fossicking, 4WD tours and private 4WD off road tracks, mountain bike trail riding, rock climbing and abseiling, along with the usual bushwalking and bird watching opportunities! Bald Rock National Park, home to what is said to be the world's biggest granite monolith (similar in size and equal in grandeur to Uluru, the world's largest sandstone monolith), and the World Heritage Listed national parks of the Focal Peak and Gibraltar Range northern tablelands Granite belt are accessible via Tabulam. Visitor information is available at Bonalbo Newsagency/Store, tel: (02) 6665 1118, or at the Old Bonalbo Information and Resources Centre, tel: (02) 6665 3133. The Bonalbo Community Technology Centre (CTC) offers computer and internet facilities. |
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| Prior to European settlement, Budjalung country was home to an estimated 60,000 people, who shared a similar language and material culture, but composed of 3 tribal groups, each with their own distinct hunting and ceremonial lands. A gold rush in 1853 when the precious ore was found in the river, saw an estimated 4,000 men stampede onto the gold fields, and out into the country around the diggings. By 1863 a punt was established across the Clarence River to ferry people and supplies to and fro, but it was so difficult to access, that many travellers would wait for the river level to drop before crossing. |
By 1902 the first bridge to span the Clarence River was built at Tabulum. Notable as the longest single span wooden bridge in the southern hemisphere, it is 972 feet long by 15 foot wide, or 296 metres long by 4.5 metres wide. |
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