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This year’s Gladstone Region 1770 Festival will be held on the 24th to 26th of May, 2019. It will be a very fun-filled weekend! The festival is held annually on the weekend closest to May 24th, the date Lt. James Cook landed in Bustard Bay in the year 1770. For more information about the event, […]

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Our hearts go out to everyone involved atm. The area is full of smoke, fire bombers and emergency services have been working hard to try to contain massive fire fronts in the area. Photos from one of our family members are below. Deepwater & Baffle Creek and Wartburg area have fared worse. People have evacuated […]

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Channel 7 recently broadcast this segment. We just spotted it on social media so thought we’d post it here too 🙂 It was a busy school holidays for the Town of 1770, with visitors travelling from across Queensland to experience something unique. Video credit: www.7plus.com.au/news

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Wow, exciting much!! So this is happening!  The TODAY Show is coming next week!! As you can imagine, our community is eagerly awaiting their arrival… and so am I! We’re just SOO jolly super-excited to be able to give The TODAY Show team a BIG 1770 and Agnes Water heart-felt community welcome… and ALSO help them unwind […]

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A local lady named Ruth Geck who owns 1770 Marina cafe surprised her daughter, Monique, who is in Dubai, with boxes of Anzac cookies this week. FOUR kilograms of Anzac Cookies mind you! We heard about this during this weekend so felt compelled to quickly write about it here in our blog. The delivery brought […]

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