FOSSICKING
So most visitors to Tropical North Queensland come for the reef, the rainforest, and the beaches. But if your idea of a good time is scrambling around in the dirt, scratching for stones... well, we can help you there too! The Atherton Tablelands, just inland of Cairns, offer some worthwhile fossicking sites. And once you're there, you're already on the edge of the great Northern Outback, famed for its underground treasures.

fossick for Topaz, Aquamarine and Smoky Quartz in the famous outback gemfields at mount Surprise.Join in a fossicking tour with Mount Surprise Gems, either in their vehicle or as a tagalong.MOUNT SURPRISE GEMS
Garland Street, Mount Surprise (MAP)
Phone (07) 4063 3055 / Fax (07) 4062 3099

www.mtsurprisegems.com.au

Gear up for a dirty weekend - go fossicking!

Join us on a trip to our Mining Claim where you can fossick for Topaz, Aquamarine and Smoky Quartz. This tour runs every morning (8am-12am) April - September. Everything you need is supplied including morning tea.

We travel approx 42 kilometres out on gravel road either in your own vehicle or relax and travel in ours. What you find you keep. We explain and show you as much as we can then its up to you.

So come along and join in the worlds greatest healthy gamble.










You can visit the World's biggest amethyst geode at Crystal Caves, one of Australia's most spectacular private mineralogical collections, and explore an underground adventure museum with rare crystals and minerals. Right here in Tropical North Queensland, in central Atherton.