Queensland on the 2020 radar

Here are several reasons why Queensland should be on your to-visit list (HINT: there are m any more!)

Sail into the Cooktown Expo 2020

The year 2020 is a big one for Australia marking 250 years since British explorer, Captain James Cook, sailed up the east coast of the country, diarising his epic journey and capturing new botanical discoveries. The explorer made three shore landings in Queensland: the town of 1770, half way between Bundaberg and Gladstone; Lizard Island where he climbed Cook's Look to chart a course through the treacherous reef; and Cooktown, where his crew spent 48 days fixing a broken ship hull.

Cooktown is one of the nation's last frontiers and a gateway to great wilderness encounters and epic indigenous experiences. It's also the best place to mark the past but celebrate the present with Cooktown Expo 2020, held from 17 July - 4 August, 2020.

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Follow the Fairway to the Outback Queensland Golf Masters

The fact that no one took out the million dollar hole-in-one win last year shouldn't stop keen golfers from following the fairway to the Outback Queensland Golf Masters 2020. Teeing off in Biloela on June 20, the second instalment of this “anything goes” games will see another six rural towns put a shine on their greens. Or browns.

Don't expect the manicured fairways of St Andrews as the Outback Masters is a dirty game, often with more 'roos than spectators and the need to rake the brown-green before you putt, chip and drive. Still there are plenty of laughs and of course there's a spectacular prize.

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Visit two new galleries …but BYO flippers.

The Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) off the coast of Townsville is set to bookend the work done at Reef HQ Aquarium and provide inspiration for reef and ocean conservation action when it opens in April 2020.

The only Underwater Art Museum in the Southern Hemisphere, MOUA has four intriguing installations located at The Strand on the city foreshore, Palm Island, some 65km out from the mainland, and picturesque Arthur Bay at Magnetic Island.

The Whitsundays is already wowing underwater visitors with sculptures dotted around popular locations easily reached by day trippers and bare boaters.

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