Things To Do
Waterfalls - Lakes - Dams - Mountains - Volcanic Sites - National Parks - Bird Watching - Bush Walking
Tolga Woodworks - Tolga Markets - Historical Tolga Railway Station... And that is only the beginning
Day Trips
These are only a few suggestions of available day trips within a 1 - 2 hours drive of the Motel. Be pleasantly surprised at how much the Atherton Tablelands has to offer.
- Mt Mulligan (largest sandstone monolith in Australia - 10 times larger than Ayers Rock & 18 k's long.
- Mount Quincan
- Hot Air Ballooning over Mareeba
- Volcanic Crater Lakes - Lake Eacham & Lake Barrine
- Other Volcanic sites in the area include Bones Knob (extinct Shield Volcano), Mount Hypipamee Crater (A Volcanic Diatreme - vent)
- Lake Tinaroo with its beautiful lake walks and nearby restaurants.
- Historical mining towns of Herberton, Irvinebank, Chillagoe & Tyconnell mines.
- Cairns - Port Douglas - Great Barrier Reef - Barron River White Water Rafting - MinJin Jungle Swing
- Mossman Gorge
- Kuranda Scenic Skyrail - Butterfly Sancturary
- Magestic Milla Milla Falls - Tinaroo Dam - Malanda Falls
Various Self Drive Trails & Circuits - (Full Day & Half Day Drives)
- "Back In Time" - Tablelands Historical Trail
- "Monthly Markets" - Various Town Markets held across the Tablelands each month
- "Tropical Tastes" - Food & Wine Trail - Wineries, Coffee Plantations, Tea Plantations
- "Back to Nature" - Waterfall Circuit
For more information and suggestions please see the friendly Motel Management to get your Trail Guides and Maps.
So why not base yourself on the cool Tablelands at Atherton Tablelands Motor Inn-Motel and enjoy some of these day trips and outings from here and return each night to warm hospitality and beautiful home cooked meals with a glass of nice red, and really relax.
Bird Watching
Leigh an avid bird-watching guest from South Australia remarked that the area around the motel (Tolga-Mabi Forest) is one if not the best for sighting a variety of different species of birds on the Tablelands.
Listed are 68 species Leigh recorded.
- Australian Bush Turkey;
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl;
- Australian Pelican;
- Straw-necked Ibis;
- Royal Spoonbill;
- Black-shouldered Kite;
- Black Kite;
- Whistling Kite;
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle;
- Grey Gowshawk;
- Nankeen Kestral;
- Buff-banded Rail;
- Bush stone-curlew;
- Masked Lapwing;
- Peaceful Dove;
- Bar-shouldered Dove;
- Topknot Pigeon;
- Sulphur-crested Cookatoo;
- Rainbow Lorikeet;
- Scaley-breasted Lorikeet;
- Channel-billed Cuckoo;
- Oriental Cuckoo;
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- Pheasant Coucal;
- Barking Owl;
- Southern Bookbook Owl;
- White-rumped Swiftlet;
- White-throated Needletail;
- Laughing Kookaburra;
- Sacred Kingfisher;
- Dollarbird;
- Yellow-throated Scrubwren;
- White-browed Scrubwren;
- Rock Dove;
- Spotted Turtle-Dove;
- Brown Cuckoo-Dove;
- Large-billed Scrubwren;
- Brown Gerygone;
- Fairy Gerygone;
- Helmeted Friarbird;
- Noisy Friarbird;
- Lewin’s Honeyeater;
- Brown Honeyeater;
- Brown-backed Honeyeater;
- Scarlet Honeyeater;
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- Rufous Whistler;
- Little Shrike-thrust;
- Magpie-lark;
- Willy Wagtail;
- Spangled Drongo;
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike;
- Barred Cuckoo-strike;
- White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike;
- Cicadabird;
- Varied Triller;
- Figbird; Australian Magpie;
- Pied Currawong;
- Spotted Catbird;
- Red-browed Finch;
- Chestnut-breasted Mannikin;
- Yellow-bellied Sunbird;
- Mistletoebird;
- Tawny Grassbird;
- Black-faced Monarch;
- Spectacled Monarch;
- Golden-headed Cisticola;
- Silvereye;
- Common Myna;
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