Visit the Town of 1770 & Agnes Water on the Central Queensland Coast for the ideal getaway and join us on the pink amphibious LARC'S!
Travelling the coastlines of Eurimbula National Park and the waterways of Bustard Bay to the isolated Bustard Head Lighthouse, the first lighthouse to be built in Queensland.
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1770 Environmental Tours operates two Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo vessels with a capacity of 32 passengers each. These fascinating vessels, equally at home on land or sea were originally built for military use, predominantly for transporting troops and equipment in and around coastal areas.
Every evening from 1868, in vigil unbroken for 118 years a lightkeeper climbed the steps of the Bustard Head lighthouse and lit the lamp, ensuring safe passage for vessels plying Queensland's dangerous rock and reef strewn coast.
In 1986 the lighthouse was automated and over the next 16 years vandals all but destroyed the buildings. In 2002, the Bustard Head Lighthouse Association began restoring this National and State heritage listed site to pristine condition, enabling the lightstation's tragic history of murder, suicide, abduction and drowning to live into the future.
Visitors can now walk through the restrored Head Lightkeeper's cottage, see unique lighthouse artefacts and experience the magnificent ocean panorama from the verandah.
