About Bargara
Bargara is a seaside holiday resort town with a road which runs along the coast – The Esplanade, Miller Street and Woongarra Scenic Drive – and a long strip of holiday homes, flats, apartments and motels all built between the beach and the hinterland. As recently as the 1980s Bargara (pronounced b’gara) was a sleepy coastal village full of interesting historic artifacts. There was a swimming pool which had been built out of the local volcanic rocks by the Kanakas – the slave labour brought from the South Pacific – and equally the kanakas had built impressive stone walls. Today the gods of development have taken over. The main street is full of chic cafes, a huge modern pub and lots of gift shoppes. The sea front – which in the 1980s was just a collection of fibro holiday homes – is now a solid row of five storey apartment blocks with land for development selling, in 2017, for $3.5 million and apartments trading for upwards of $700,000. (sourced from the Aussie Towns website – click for more).
Getting there
It’s only 138kms from Hervey Bay to Bargara (route map via Childers) so it was a fairly easy drive.
Childers for a coffee break
Childers is such a great spot to break your journey for a coffee break. There are so many cafés and bakeries in town to choose from, plus there’s heaps of RV parking behind the main street.
We chose the Insane café located at 79 Churchill Street for our stop-over and what a great choice it turned out to be.
Accommodation
This will be our 4th stay at Bagara Breeze Big4 Caravan Park and we’re so happy to be returning. It’s a great park with really helpful and friendly staff, plus it’s right opposite the beach and a “stones throw” walk to cafés and restaurants in town. Bundaberg is also only 20kms away.
Fancy Dress Happy Hour
As the Tagalong22 group are all party animals it was probably an appropriate idea to have a fancy dress inspired happy hour. Boy, did the team get right into the concept, as the photos below will show…
Barefoot Bowling
So, it was off to the Bargara Bowls Club for dinner and a bit of “bare foot bowling” afterward. Another great night with fantastic food and plenty of laughs on the bowling green.
The bowling green is synthetic and recently the total area was covered by a $2.5m roof, which looks incredible.
Summing up…
- Accommodation – Big4 Breeze Holiday Park (07) 4159 2228
- Cost per night – $40.50 (@ 6-Sep-2022)
- Stayed for – 3 nights
- Facilities – A bit dated but always kept clean & tidy
- CP Location – 25 Fred Courtice Ave Bargara QLD
- Our rating/score – 8/10
- Was it a nice town to visit? – Yes – our 4th visit here
- Activities & places of interest – plenty to do around Bargara & Bundaberg
- Tourist info centre? – Spring Hill House, 36 Avenue St Bundaberg East (07) 4153 8888
- Would we return? – Always
- We rate the town – 9/10
- Overall thoughts – We love this area with plenty of things to do, but we’re starting to run out of new locations to check out. It’s always a great spot to stop on the way north.