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Haighs Chocolates Visitor Centre
If you鈥檝e got a chocolate problem, get guilty at this iconic factory. Free 20-minute tours take you through the chocolate life-cycle from cacao bean to hand-dipped truffle (with samples if you鈥檙e good). Call for tour times and bookings.
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WWII Oil
You can escape from the heat of the day and relive your Hitchcockian fantasies by walking through the WWII oil-storage tunnels. They were built in 1942 to store the navy鈥檚 oil supplies (but never used); now they exhibit wartime photos.
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Star Hotel Museum & Theatre
Star Hotel/Theatre was once the centrepiece of Chiltern鈥檚 social and cultural life. The grapevine in the courtyard is in the Guinness World Records as the largest in the southern hemisphere 鈥?you can sneak a peek down the laneway at the side.
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Windjana Gorge
The walls of the gorge soar 100m above the Lennard River, which surges in the Wet but is a series of pools in the Dry. Scores of freshwater crocodiles lurk along the banks. Bring plenty of water for the 7km return walk from the campground.
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Vintage Tractor Shed Museum
Oil your engine at the Vintage Tractor Shed Museum, an informal assembly of farmyard sheds full of rusty old trundlers, dating from 1916 to 1952. There are also 600 scale models of tractors here 鈥?a real shrine to these beasts of the field.
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Overseas Passenger Terminal
Multistorey luxury cruise ships weigh anchor at this large terminal, disgorging hordes of shaky-legged tourists onto Circular Quay West. For a killer harbour view, head up to the level-four observation deck in the turret on the northern end.
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Moulting Lagoon
The road into Coles Bay skirts around the estuary of the Swan River and Moulting Lagoon, an important breeding ground for waterbirds. Residents include black swans, Australian shelducks, greenshanks鈥nd the oysters at Freycinet Marine Farm !
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Moorook
There are wildlife reserves with walking trails at Moorook , on the road to Loxton. This reserve has nature trails and is one of the prime spots for birdwatching and canoeing. Self-register camping permits are available at the reserve entrance.
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Moonah Arts Centre Art Gallery
Open in 2015, the new Albert Rd building for this long-running community arts co-op stages everything from indigenous arts exhibitions and concerts to workshops and special events. Buses departing stop E on Elizabeth St go to groovy Moonah.
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Goldfields Historical Museum
The world鈥檚 largest alluvial nugget, the 72kg Welcome Stranger, was found in Moliagul in 1869 by John Deason and Richard Oates, who hid it for two days before concealing it in a wagon and taking it to DunollyGoldfields Historical Museum.
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Clontarf Cottage
Balmain鈥檚 hibiscus-filled streets contain dozens of historically significant buildings, most of which are privately owned. The squat, shingle-roofed Clontarf Cottage is an impressively restored house (1844) saved by protests in the late 1980s.
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Engelbrecht Cave
A rubbish dump prior to 1979, this meandering cave system runs beneath Jubilee Hwy and 19 local houses! Tours last 45 minutes and take you down to an underground lake (call for cave-diving info). Theres a cafe here too. Reduced winter hours.
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Encounter Coast Discovery Centre
Inside Victors 1866 Customs House on the foreshore, this National Trust museum has interesting local-history displays from pre-European times to around 1900: whaling, railways, shipping and local Aboriginal culture. Good for a rainy day.
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Bungonia National Park
About 40km southeast of Goulburn and abutting Morton National Park, Bungonia has a dramatic forested gorge, deep caves and a cool camping area with hot showers, toilets, a communal kitchen and gas barbecues. Walking is the mainstay activity.
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Bradman Collection
At the Adelaide Oval is the Bradman Collection , where devotees of Don Bradman, crickets greatest batsman, can pore over the minutiae of his legend. Check out the bronze statue of the Don cracking a cover drive out the front of the stadium.
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Bogong Power Station
There鈥檚 a fascinating visitor information centre at the Bogong Power Station, a working hydroelectric plant about 20km from Mt Beauty. The centre explains the history of the hydro scheme and has a water wall and a viewing window into the plant.
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Angourie Blue Pools
These springwater-fed waterholes are the remains of the quarry used for the breakwater. The daring climb the cliff faces and plunge to the depths. The saner can slip silently into the water, surrounded by bush, only metres from the surf.
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Alum Cliffs Gorge
A one-hour-return walk along a sloping spur takes you to an impressive lookout. Alum Cliffs (or Tulampanga, as it鈥檚 known to the tribal custodians, the Pallittorre people) is a sacred celebration place where tribes met for corroborees.
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Allport Library & Museum of Fine Arts
The State Library is home to this collection of rare books on the Australia-Pacific region, as well as colonial paintings, antiques, visiting exhibits and a special collection of artworks that get dusted off for display several times a year.
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Cathedral of St Francis Xavier Church
Arguably the finest example of the architectural achievements of the multi-skilled Monsignor John Hawes. The cathedrals striking features include imposing twin towers with arched openings, a central dome, Romanesque columns and boldly striped walls.
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