Aerial view of the township of 1770 on the Discovery Coast, Queensland. Pic Tourism Queensland.
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Ian Browne is a writer based on the Tweed. He has written for numerous magazines and has a travel book on its way.
Ian wrote this piece about the impacts of Covid on the 1770/Agnes Water region after a visit there this month. Â Seventeen Seventy has long been held with much regard, though to many it remains a mystery. It s one of those paradises that people talk about - I hope to go there one day or I could have purchased a few acres there in the 90s, and now it s worth a ton!
Aerial view of the township of 1770 on the Discovery Coast, Queensland. Pic Tourism Queensland.
Travel Ian Browne
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Ian Browne is a writer based on the Tweed. He has written for numerous magazines and has a travel book on its way.
Ian wrote this piece about the impacts of Covid on the 1770/Agnes Water region after a visit there this month. Â Seventeen Seventy has long been held with much regard, though to many it remains a mystery. It s one of those paradises that people talk about - I hope to go there one day or I could have purchased a few acres there in the 90s, and now it s worth a ton!
Aerial view of the township of 1770 on the Discovery Coast, Queensland. Pic Tourism Queensland.
Travel Ian Browne
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Ian Browne is a writer based on the Tweed. He has written for numerous magazines and has a travel book on its way.
Ian wrote this piece about the impacts of Covid on the 1770/Agnes Water region after a visit there this month. Â Seventeen Seventy has long been held with much regard, though to many it remains a mystery. It s one of those paradises that people talk about - I hope to go there one day or I could have purchased a few acres there in the 90s, and now it s worth a ton!
  Weir based his hypothesis on the fact Today Show host Karl Stefanovic chose to holiday at Noosa Heads, shunning the celebrity magnetism and paparazzi of Byron Bay. This prompted Weir to explore alternative locations for the next Byron Bay , suggesting 1770. Somewhere with a lot of untapped potential is Seventeen Seventy, between Gladstone and Bundaberg, Weir said. There s only about a hundred people living there so we can just blow through and do whatever we want with the joint. We ll roll in a few bulldozers, whack up a water slide park and build a food court where the caravan ground is.