Regional Councils - Port Macquarie-Hastings Council

Here you will discover glorious bays and beaches, intricate inland waterways, rainforests and rolling hinterland. Port Macquarie is a modern cosmopolitan town located an easy four-hour drive north of Sydney. The Hastings area consists of a wide variety of suitable locations for film and television production.Timbertown: A replica of a working pioneer village from the 1800s. Steam sawmill, working steam train, bullock team, draught horses, blacksmith, and an authentic recreation of early Australian architecture including churches, railway stations, and miner's cottages. At Timbertown you will find a former age lifted in its entirety from the realms of history and placed within our own. A living, breathing village, Timbertown has a narrow gauge steam locomotive representing the logging railways of a century ago. Rural Vistas: The farming town of Comboyne offers the appearance of an English countryside with stone fences, narrow country roads with quaint little villages and towns along the way. The regional centres of Wauchope and the Camden Haven are steeped in history and offer rural images of typical country towns.Sub-Tropical Rainforest: "Where the rainforest meets the ocean?" is not the exclusive property of Far North Queensland. Our rainforest areas adjoin the beaches and provide a myriad of locations from small sheltered areas to more open beaches.Beaches: Along with the above mentioned beaches we also have long stretches of pristine white sandy beaches and coastal dunes. From headlands to breakwalls and lighthouses - it's all here!Natural Environment: The World Heritage listed Werrilimbe National Park borders our shire to the west with it's Antartic Beech foreshores, crystal-clear mountain streams, waterfalls and wild river rapids. Closer to town are the Kooloonbung Nature reserve, Lake Innes and Limeburners Creek. All these areas have their own unique characteristics.Please visit www.portmacquarieinfo.com.au

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