Things To Do

PRODUCE - ACCOMMODATION - WINE - FOOD AND LEISURE...ALL AT THE OLD BAKERY STONE HUT

Cottage Accommodation...

Local and Regional Produce...

Stunning views from the Lookout...

Southern Flinders Wine...

The Wirrabara Producers Market held third Sunday of each month from 8.30am.

Stroll around the township of Stone Hut following their heritage walking track. With such a rich history this little village makes an interesting stopover and well worth the walk to read the plaques and understand how and why Stone Hut came into being.

Things to do and places to stay........ Magnigicent views north to Mt. Remarkable and south over the Rocky River Valley to Laura from the lookout at Stone Hut, just atop the hill behind the Old Bakery

Browse through the Stone Hut Cottage Nursery, part of the Old Bakery complex at Stone Hut, and select a plant, pot, or gift for someone special in the garden gift shop.

Blue Day Trail Horse Ride - Southern Flinders Trail Horse Riding Club   invites you to ride with them on Saturday 24th September 2011 from Gladstone to Laura to raise awareness and money for Prostate cancer research.  Dress yourself and your horse in blue.  Join in the street parade at 10am before riding to the North Laura Hotel for lunch. Cost $15. Stay for dinner (cost $30) to hear high profile guest speakers talkiing about their journey.  Buy something at the Big Blue Auction.  ..........Contact Shan Daw mobile/text 0409 026 333  or Kathy Webb mobile 0412 644 665  or  email sfthrc@y7mail.com

Gladstone Market and Fair - Be a part of the annual Trail Horse Ride.  Variety of local arts, crafts, and food stalls.  24th September 2011

 Laura Country Music Festival 30th and 31st July 2011  Enquiries 08 8663 2614  email   lauraeventsincorporated@bigpond.com

Flinders Ranges "A brush with art"  10th September - 3rd October 2011 at the Laura Courthouse Gallery Hughes St Laura  -  this year will be an exhibition of the diverse work of artist Josie Burgess, and prominent artists such as Rita Hall, Keith Palmer, Helen Pammenter, Jeff Morgan and many more.

 

Wine tastings at the Old Bakery Stone Hut Stone Hut Cottage Nursery and garden giftware The Old Nursery in the historic Wirrabara Forest Camping in the beautiful Wirrabara Forest Antique shops Walking the Heysen and Mawson trails Many scenic self drive tours Natural beauty spots such as Alligator Gorge at Wilmington and Appila Springs The orchards of Wirrabara Forest offer fresh and dried stone fruits in season Farm stays and quaint bed and breakfast cottages Caravan parks in gorgeous settings The Wirrabara Produce market third Sunday of each month Picnic and BBQ in the many pretty parks Cycle and walking track between Laura and Stone Hut

Cycling on the many cycle tracks at Mt Remarkable . Bike programmes available from Bike SA and the visitor information centres at Gladstone, Laura and Wirrabara Motor biking in the Southern Flinders is very popular Enjoy the hospitality of the many country pubs The very interesting Court House Museum at Melrose, a must see. Magnetic Hill at Jamestown  Historic Gladstone Gaol Bundaleer Forest at Jamestown Wine tasting at Remarkable View Winery, Murray Town Ben and Lyn Page's Working Dog Demonstrations - every school holidays - South Australia's own Dog Whisperer - for more info contact workingdogs@activ8.net.au or visit www.workingdogcentre.com - a real must see.

Bookings for accommodation at Stone Hut - book on line from our websites www.stonehutcottages.com.au and www.oldbakerystonehut.com.au   - call the Old Bakery at 08 8663 2165 or email theoldbakery@activ8.net.au.  Click on the following link accommodation page for further details.

The way we were....... Like the consumption of meat, the consumption of tea in Australia during the 19th Century was, according to Dr. Philip Muskett, 'enormously in excess of any common sense requirements, and....paralleled nowhere else in the world'.  Although Muskett insists that the ''fairer sex' was largely responsible for this extravagance, the Australian's addiction to the beverage is popularly seen as a phenomenon of the outback, where the preparation of billy tea has become part of bush mythology.  It is perhaps worth noting that until the late 1830's all tea drunk by Western societies was Chinese, for the Indian tea industry was not founded til 1834.

Visitor Information Centres

• Discovery Centre Gladstone 08 8662 2226 open 7 days 10am to 4pm
• Laura Information Centre 08 8663 2260 open daily 10am to 4pm
• Wirrabara Visitor Information Centre 08 8668 4250 open every day
• Port Pirie Tourism & Arts Centre 8633 8700
• Reflections Gallery and Tourist Information Centre 8636 3111

Accommodation

Stone Hut - Stone Hut Cottages at the Old Bakery complex in Stone Hut - book direct from our web site on our accommodation page.