DO SOME adventuring around Forsayth, deep in savannah country.

Make the Goldfields Hotel your holiday base. The hotel offers dinner, bed and breakfast or longer stays in its air-conditioned accommodation. The counter meals are home cooked and delicious. They’re available six nights, but if you’re there on a Sunday and in need of a meal, your hosts won’t let you go hungry! Fuel is also available and a limited line of groceries including milk, bread and vegetables can be purchased.

From Forsayth, you can venture to interesting geographical areas like the Robertson River Gorge, Newcastle Range, and for those who love agates, Agate Creek is just two hours’ drive away. Before you go, browse through the hotel’s agate and thunderegg collection. Also wander around the hotel’s collection of historic photos of Forsayth in the early 1900s.

And for something really special, stay there overnight so you can be up early in the morning – not long after daybreak - to see the feeding of red-tailed black cockatoos. There are usually 40 to 70 of them and they’ve been coming in for breakie at the pub for the past 20 years!