Ingham, Qld

Ingham is a sugar town with a strong Italian heritage, hence a love of good food. You’ll find an Italian deli where you can stock up on things that you may be hankering for and good butchers.

On the seafood side, I’ll go out on a limb here and declare Wild Local seafood as the best fresh and cooked fish supplier we’ve visited. Their daily specials are deliciously creative and different, and we’ve been known to be munching with delight as we’ve headed down the highway. You’ll find them at 52 Herbert St, Ingham and they now have a café. Oh, and they will deliver your orders to Rollingstone Caravan Park twice weekly. So when you’re really hanging for a piece of coral trout…

Parking, if you’ve got the van on there’s a caravan parking area just a block from the CBD at TYTO Wetlands and Information Centre and it’s also worth a quiet stroll through the wetlands.

Not to be missed is Ingham’s Italian Cemetery (not to be confused with the cemetery on the Bruce Highway) but the one on Cemetery Rd. One could easily spend an hour exploring the grand mausoleums and statuary here. I think we did.

A little further east you’ll pass through endless cane fields to the popular towns of Halifax and Lucinda. Lucinda has an enormously long sugar wharf that stretches waaaayout to deep water.

To the west of town, it’s an easy drive (without the caravan) up the Great Dividing Range to Wallaman Falls. These little-known falls are the country’s highest single drop falls, and they are awesome, in both size and the unusual noise they make as they hit the valley below.

So that’s Ingham, a lovely town with a rich history. There’s a lot to see in this area, isn’t there?