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Please note - Council offices are closed from 3pm Wednesday 24 December and will reopen on Monday 5 January. If you require an urgent response, please contact us via 07 4932 9000.

Time Safaris Walking Tours

Treating Rockhampton and surrounding Central Queensland like a Museum, Time Safaris provides several walking tours that cover the history, true crime, paleontology, botany, military and ghost stories of the region.

Ghost Murder walk/ Cemetery walk learn about the very dark side of Rockhampton and hear about the ghosts, murders and if the actual Jack the Ripper once stalked the streets of Central Queensland.

History walk (day) visit the heritage listed buildings in the CBD and learn about Rockhampton's association with the Apollo 11 moon landing, the bank-robbers and bushrangers in the region, Australia's first ever sports World Champion and the history of the town.
Mysteries of the Cemetery Walk. Visit the Heritage listed South-Side Cemetery and learn about the dark history and the people who helped build the town. Visit Murder and Murdered row.

Dinosaurs@theZoo tour and hold real fossils from the prehistoric relatives of the animals in the zoo. T. rex and Megalodon teeth and even get a photo holding a Tasmanian Tiger skull.
Botanic Garden Walk: Visit one of the oldest Botanic Gardens in Australia and see some amazing plants and learn how the Rocky Gardens saved the town, fought WW2 and learn about the tallest War Memorial in the Southern Hemisphere.