Looking to escape the wintery blues? With amazing fresh produce ripe and ready for the picking and our temperate climate, this time of year you'll want to spend most of your time outdoors, where the sun is shining and our region's events are sparking up our lives like little fireworks wherever you look. Check out this bursting events calendar and come and celebrate with us this winter.

Victoria might have the event that stops the nation, but closer to home we have the event that stops the Bruce Highway for a whole day. Welcome to the Childers festival, which has grown into a four day extravaganza, celebrating local wine and food, historical tours, sugar cane fires, arts, and lots of music with both local and visiting artists (hello, Kate Cebrano!) and even an opera by the lake. 

Enjoy a long dinner at a local winery, take a bus tour to visit the sugar mill and watch a cane fire burn bright against the dark sky, meander through the main street learning about those who have paved the way before us on these very streets and then enjoy the main event - festival day with food, music and entertainment roving the main street of Childers. Meet you there!

Welcoming autumn with milder temperatures and lush green rolling hills after summer rain, the North Burnett is an adventurer’s playground just waiting to be explored.

Taste your way through the North Burnett at this year's Heartland Festival, Friday 20 – Sunday 22 September. Here's how you can tickle your tastebuds:

For one salty day only, the Rotary Club of Bundaberg Sunrise puts on its annual Oceanfest at the Bundaberg Port Marina. Held Saturday 28 August, 10am – 5pm, guests can find themselves relishing in everything you can do, eat and enjoy out on the ocean. Here are our top 5 reasons you need to be at Oceanfest: