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Premium Content Subscriber only Midge Point residents are fed up over waiting for a new boat ramp and say the lack of action is hampering the regionâs tourism potential. Laminated design plans for a new ramp off Jimmys Rock Rd are posted on the door of the townâs Point Tavern. Midge Point locals say they are using the makeshift boat ramp at the end of Jimmys Rock Rd. Picture: Heidi Petith It has been there since the Mackay Regional Councilâs visit to discuss the project earlier this year; residents said it was a sore reminder of no progress. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only A small rural service station on the Bruce Highway between Mackay and Proserpine was once home to a tourist attraction of the feather variety. Right next to the service station was a free entry bird park with all manners of residents including macaws, a talking pair of corellas, ringnecks and a large roaming turkey. BP Bloomsbury manager Karen Harrison said it was owned by Michael Fahey. “He just loved animals,” Ms Harrison said. More stories: ....
Premium Content THE co-host of I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here almost quit her post on the United Kingdom show because of a little insect shipped from the Mackay region. A green ant that bit Holly Willoughby was harvested by Daniel Bredl and the team at Bredl Wild Park in Bloomsbury, about an hour s drive north of Mackay. We drive around until we find nests, Mr Bredl said. Green ants are just in trees, everywhere. We just put them in the buckets and they usually go down with Fastway Couriers. It s not the nicest job in the world. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only A SCENIC tour company operator flying over the picturesque Whitsundays islands said adding a 1950s seaplane to their fleet was a real novelty . The 1957 DHC-2 Beaver is under the hangar for maintenance at an airfield village an hour s drive from Mackay. GSL Aviation owner Trent Brown said the retro aircraft was added to the collection after acquiring Air Whitsundays earlier this year. GSL Aviation chief maintenance engineer Matt Harding (centre) with first year apprentice Theodore Brown (right) and fourth year apprentice Cal Taylor (right) standing in front of a 1950s seaplane at their hangar at Whitsunday Lakeside Park Estate, Bloomsbury. Picture: Heidi Petith ....