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Taste
Food, Food, Food! Indulge yourself with our world famous parfaits and sundaes. Our restaurant will tempt you with delicious meals, snacks and fresh juices.
Fully Licenced
The Big Pineapple is fully licenced to compliment our restaurant and function facilities.
Experience
You can experience the plantation aboard our unique Plantation Train as it tours past exotic fruit trees and sub-tropical rainforest. A pineapple growing demonstration is included in the tour. This trip visits our Wildlife Reserve where you can observe Australian native animals including koalas, kangaroos, wombats, emus, owls, exotic parrots and much more.
Our Animal Nursery is a great childrens favourite, where they can touch and feed all the baby animals.
Childrens parties can be arranged to include meals and a personalised Animal Nursery tour.
Our Nutmobile will carry you through tranquil rainforests and our own macadamia plantations, where we will show you how macadamias are grown and harvested.
Children under 4 are free on all tours.
The Big Pineapple has been recognised as a National Icon for its significant role in the tourism industry.
Shopping
Visit our large gift shop and try our extensive range of pineapple and tropical fruit jams, preserves and sauces all made exclusively for the Big Pineapple, as well as a large range of our own confectionery available for your enjoyment.
Try one of our special pineapple or macadamia biscuits that are made fresh daily in our very own bakery. We have a large range of Australian produce, arts and crafts, souveniers, toys, leisure wear, jewellery and aboriginal arts and crafts.
Our friendly staff will give you every assistance in making your selection.
Functions
Set in a tropical tranquil setting with ample parking and excellent catering facilities, the Big Pineapple is fully licenced and is an ideal venue for all occasions including formals, conferences weddings and trade shows.
Ask how we can organise your special event, or simply hire a room for the day.

Bellingham Maze, originally planted in 1991 and opened to the public in 1993 is one of the most familiar attractions on the Sunshine Coast. This Queensland tourism icon which is set in a lush tropical rainforest environment on Tanawha Tourist Drive #25, Tanawha has a huge 80m x 80m living hedge maze which was recently re-opened to the public after an extensive regeneration program.

In 2013 all of the original 20 year old cypress pine trees in the hedge maze were replaced with over 1000 of Sunshine Coast’s favourite plant, the lilly pilly.  The hedge maze was closed for nearly 2 years and in March 2015 is was re-opened to the public and looks amazing!

Whilst the hedge maze is the main attraction at Bellingham Maze, it is certainly not the only attraction.  Bellingham Maze also has a wooden maze, a tyre maze, a rope maze and some other aMAZEing activities for you to enjoy.  Did you know Bellingham Maze also has an 18 hole mini golf course, which is a par 2 course suitable to all ages?  There’s also a delightful garden café where you can enjoy a coffee, a cold drink or something to eat, without having to go into the maze or play mini golf if you’re only wanting a pleasant cafe experience. The puzzle shop at Bellingham Maze stocks a unique range of brain teasing metal and wooden puzzles – all with instructions enclosed.  A selection of puzzles are also on the tables at the café for customers to try.  The shop has an affordable range of toys and puzzles to purchase, suitable for all budgets and caters for kids with their own pocket money.  

A visit to Bellingham Maze is certainly a great way to stretch your mind, stretch your legs and have some outdoor brain-teasing fun.  Bellingham Maze is suitable for all ages, attracting families, couples, groups, parties, school excursions and many more.  Don’t miss out on the fun!

Named after the spectacular Kondalilla Falls, where Skene Creek drops 90 metres into a rainforest valley, this park is a cool mountain retreat and an important refuge for many native animals and plants. The park takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning 'rushing waters'. Five rare and threatened frog species as well as the rare bopple nut, a species of macadamia plant, are found here. Birdwatchers and nature photographers love this park, with its views, rainforest and wildlife. Enjoy a picnic at Kondalilla Falls day-use area. Stroll along the easy 1.7 kilometre Picnic Creek circuit or take the more challenging 4.6 kilometre Kondalilla Falls circuit, with about 100 steps and views of the falls. If you are feeling fit, you can enjoy a section of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk, starting from Baroon Pocket Dam picnic area (near Lake Baroon) and walking to Kondalilla Falls picnic area (11.7 kilometres one way) or continuing on to Flaxton walkers' camp, a bush camp provided especially for walkers, (a further 4.6 kilometres one way).

Winding through the spectacular Blackall Range, a cool retreat in the hinterland of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk traverse some of Queensland's most scenic natural areas in Kondalilla and Mapleton Falls National Park and Mapleton Forest Reserve. Walk traverses the very best of the Blackall Range with three overnight walkers' camps. Campsites must be booked in advance. Day visitors can access sections of the great walk for shorter walks. The majority of the great walk is Class Three and Four walking track standard. Walkers need a moderate level of fitness and good ankle supporting footwear.

Ethically and sustainably produced from their own vineyards and farms, the wine and the food at Flame Hill Vineyard is prepared and served with conscience, guaranteeing patrons an experience of paramount quality at this world class venue featuring breathtaking ocean views and mountain vistas. By definition firstly a winery, featuring a quality range of estate grown wines, offering sales and tastings from the cellar door within a contemporary Queenslander. The Deck Restaurant featuring a la carte fare from off farm seasonal produce matched to the estate grown wines is the essence of relax - unwind - breath Whilst the restaurant is relaxed and casual the guests can also opt for Charcuterie or Regional Cheeses on the Terrace which flows onto the lawns leading to the Shiraz Vines. At Flame Hill, they like to know where their wine and food comes from!

Under the watchful eye of acclaimed chef, Cameron Matthews, The Long Apron has made Spicers Clovelly Estate a destination for foodies from around Australia. From a croissant on the sun drenched terrace, to a cassoulet shared with someone you love in the dining room, The Long Apron offers a unique taste of Modern European in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. The Long Apron restaurant serves contemporary and classic European cuisine in an understated and elegant dining room or garden terrace area. The food is meticulously prepared and only the freshest seasonal produce is used, sourced from on the property and the surrounding local area. The Long Apron offers five and seven course degustation menu as well as 'Table d'hote'.

Brewbake - Freshly brewed beer and baked meat pies. Australia's newest Microbrewery located at the iconic Queensland attraction on the Sunshine Coast, The Big Pineapple. See the brewing process right at the bar, try a tasting paddle, take home a unique one litre stubby. Beer and Pies, what else do you need?

Beyond Montville's galleries, eateries and curio shops, there's a village green with a story to tell of what happens to a community when its country goes to war. The Montville Memorial precinct is flanked by the 1921 memorial gates and a sentry of six trees. It includes two memorial halls, accessed by a short street called Memorial Close. Montville had developed barely 20 years before the war. It was a small rural community with 55 farmers and dairymen and their families: about 40 men went off to war. War memorials with their marble rolls of honour provide a local perspective of community patriotism that military records can't, and Montville's adds another dimension. It includes the names of all of those who volunteered. School children planted the trees as an Arbour Day project in 1923. Rolls of honour for both world wars are on the wall in Montville Hall, the larger of the buildings. The smaller building, now called Montville Memorial Hall, St Mary's Hall and Community Centre, was built in 1941 as a club room for returned WWI veterans. Montville's Memorial Park is the setting for annual ANZAC Day ceremonies and its halls are used year-round.