Emerald Gardens Motel & Apartments is conveniently located to major attractions
Fairbairn Dam has 3 times more water in it than Sydney Habour. Locals love to take their boats out and go water skiing. It has been loaded with 8 species of fish, it also has red claw.
There is a small sandy shore where you can go swimming. Free electric BBQ & picnic table for you to set and enjoy a lovely bbq during the day or in the evening watching the sunset.
The Capella Pioneer Village is located in Pioneer St, next to Gregory Hwy. It has grown to a significant repository of the Central Highlands region’s pastoral and agricultural history, including the largest restored drop-plank construction homestead in Australia.
The Village Collection contains over 5000 individual items that can be broadly grouped into the following exhibits:
Settlers – 1869, 1883, 1900, 1907, 1927, 1948, 1956
Central Highlands Wool Industry and Origins of the Great Shearers Strike
The Railway Lifeline
Wartime Remembrances
The Peak Downs Scheme (Queensland-British Food Corporation)
Broadacre Grain Farming
The Capella Pioneer Village annual Old Machinery and Craft Fair is held on the second Saturday of September at the Village grounds at the northern end of Capella’s main street. There is something for everyone with craft stalls, entertainment, food, fashion parade, blacksmithing and vintage engines and tractors rallying.
The complex is open from 9.00am to 12noon Wednesday to Friday and Sundays during Autumn, Winter and Spring.