9 INCOMPARABLE DINING EXPERIENCES TO ADD TO YOUR BUCKET LIST
Catch A Crab Tour & Oyster Farm
Calling all seafood lovers! The original Gold Coast crabbing and oyster adventure tour is the experience you didn’t know you needed, but is soon become the one you want. The folks at Catch A Crab will provide you with an unforgettable Australian outdoor lifestyle experience. You will enjoy activities along the likes of fishing, yabbie pumping and trapping of live mud crabs. All this activity is followed by one of the best seafood lunches you’ll find at the Lakeside Café, overlooking the oyster farms. What more could you want in a day out?
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Artisan Food and Wine Tour
You will be afforded all the highlights of Kangaroo Island’s well known wildlife, coastal scenery and rolling hinterland, while experiencing the best of local artisans with one of the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Food and Wine Tours. Greeted at your accommodation by local guides, you will be taken on a taste experience; sampling local seafoods including Marron, Crayfish (in season) and King George Whiting. You will also visit numerous local wineries with a spectacular view and many (emphasis on many) tasters. To top off your day and your palate, you’ll wrap up with cocktail hour at Kangaroo Island Spirits. It’s time to design your own cocktail. Yuuuuuum!
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Photo: Kangeroo Island Wilderness Tours
Whitehaven Beach BBQ
If a barbecue lunch is all you’re after, we have the experience for you. Departing from Airlie Beach, Whitehaven Xpress visits both Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet Lookout to allow you to absorb the surreal views. Whilst experiencing the famous and breathtaking Whitehaven beach, you will get the full Aussie treatment with a beach BBQ! Voted the best BBQ lunch in the Whitsundays, you’ll feast on steak, sausages, chilli burgers, salad and tropical fruits under the native trees. Top the day off with a snorkel or glass bottom boat tour.
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Photo: Coconut Plantation Thala Beach Nature Reserve
Coconut Odyssey
Sticking to the Tropical Queensland theme, head out to the secluded retreat of your dreams. Near Port Douglas, located on a secluded beach, surrounded by forest, you will find the private nature reserve of Thala Beach. Sitting atop a headland with breathtaking vistas, it is the perfect base to explore the Great Barrier Reef & Daintree Rainforest. Thala Beach Nature Reserve offers guests one of the only coconut tours in Australia. Throughout the tour you will get to drink and eat from a variety of coconuts including the ‘Coconut Apple’; as well as learning all about their health benefits of coconuts. Labelled as the ‘tour that help you lose weight without exercising’ how could you say no?
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Hot Springs Graze & Bathe
Rejuvenation for the mind, body and tummy? Situated on the Mornington Peninsula awaits an experience like no other at Peninsula Hot Springs. Natural thermal mineral waters flow into the pools and private baths at this coastal oasis; providing an idyllic setting for relaxation and rejuvenation. You can graze and bathe with an array of dining packages available; from exclusive Moroccan tents to grazing platters and wine, or maybe just a quiet breakfast for two. This is absolutely on my bucket list, what about you?
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Photo: Peninsula Hot Springs
Sunset Cultural & Dining Experience
The Northern Territory’s Nitmiluk Gorge is a maze of waterways sculpted from sandstone cliffs by the Katherine River. Sit back and relax as the tranquil surroundings transport you into a spiritual world of the Jawoyn culture and history. The Nabilil Dreaming Sunset Dinner Tour will have you discover the stories and ways of the Jawoyn people against the magnificent backdrop of the Nitmiluk Gorge, changing colour with the setting sun. This idyllic tour includes a three-course candlelight dinner, featuring local Australian produce, cooked on board. This unique experience will have you falling in love with the Nothern Territory and its local produce.
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Photo: Nitmiluk Tours
The Perfect Weekender
We get it, sometimes you don’t want to do anything but eat, drink and relax by the pool. Why not do that in one of Australia’s most beautiful landscapes? Sangoma Retreat, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, offers complete tranquility and a luxury weekend ‘bush experience’ in a restful, lush setting. The dining is in a class of its own highlighting locally sourced, organic produce and indulgent seasonal menus. Dining here is an activity within itself and well worth your time. I feel nourished just thinking about it.
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Photo: Spicers Sangoma Retreat Restaurant
Off Road Wine Tour with a Local
Get out of the city and off the beaten track with Simmo's Offroad Tours. Simmo will provide you with Scenic 4WD Wine & Produce Tours of the Orange & Bathurst cool-climate wine region. These tours feature breathtaking lookouts from Mount Canobolas and a guided tour through Borenore Caves. Guests also meet with local grape-growers, wine makers, orchardists, and local farmers. No one knows better than the locals!
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Helicopter Food & Wine Tour
Now this is how you take your lunch to the next level (literally). Just a short trip from Brisbane you can jump aboard a Pterodactyl Helicopter and embark on a food tour you’ve never experienced before. Show up to lunch like a Rockstar, as Pterodactyl Helicopters flies you to a selection of South East Queensland’s finest restaurants, quirky cafes, boutique breweries, award winning wineries and authentic Australian pubs. You can even get flown into your very own secluded picnic location (did someone say Insta-worthy or what). On your flight you’ll get a birds-eye view of Brisbane, Ipswich, the Scenic Rim, Sommerset and the Lockyer Valley. This is an experience that is just way too cool to pass up.
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Photo: Pterodactyl Helicopters
[Header Photo: Peninsular Hot Springs]
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