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Kids Tour – School Holidays
Highlights
- Discover the sugar cane harvest and learn about local farming practices that connect kids to agriculture.
- Sample freshly pressed sugar cane juice from 'Bill the Mill Junior' and experience the sweetness of local produce.
- Engage with hands-on activities like critter hunts and quizzes that make learning about sugar fun and interactive.
- Taste onsite-brewed ginger beer and fluffy fairy floss, delighting both kids and adults alike in a sweet experience.
Discover the growing and harvesting of the sugar cane, complete a hunt for the critters that live in our sugar cane patch. Enter the miniature sugar mill to see how sugar cane is crushed, sample deliciously sweet sugar cane juice straight from our miniature mill – ‘Bill the Mill Junior”. The stickers help the kids understand the machines that work in the process from turning juice into sugar. Touch and feel the different stages of the production from the bagasse to the sugar, taste the molasses!
During your tour (approximately 45 minutes), receive a free info sheet at the end, (great for school projects) and a quick fun quiz to help keep the young ones engaged – they are guaranteed to learn something! Finally, everyone gets to a chance to taste the non-alcoholic ginger beer brewed onsite, and freshly spun fairy floss for big and little kids!
Note – Adults at kids prices, however adults ticket does not include the full tasting. This can be purchased separately as a tasting session if desired.
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
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Sarina Sugar Shed Tours
Sarina Sugar Shed is a multi-award winning attraction that offers a genuine and authentic paddock-to-plate food tourism experience that explores the journey of sugar production, from sugarcane to finished distilled products and homemade condiments.
Through daily guided tours, Sarina Sugar Shed celebrates the achievements of the sugar cane pioneers who brought great prosperity to the region through their back-breaking work and mechanical ingenuity, and then, via their miniature mill, they demonstrate the process of taking the raw sugar cane plant and turning it into both crystallised sugar ready for refining and ethanol for alcohol production.
The journey ends with tastings of the many delicious uses of sugar, including rum, rum liqueurs and fruit liqueurs made onsite in the boutique distillery, plus their range of Sugar Shed chutneys, relishes and sauces, and non-alcoholic ginger beer.
With offerings in the café, such as light lunches, house-baked scones with strawberry jam, cheese and tasting platters using signature chutneys and relishes, and 8 flavours of ice cream made in-house, Sarina Sugar Shed is a true food tourism experience, satisfying the sweet tooth of all ages.
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- Queensland Tourism Industry Council
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Visitor Information Centre
- QLD – Mackay Tourism
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