Queanbeyan is for Lovers
Queanbeyan is for Lovers Tee-Shirt is exactly that. Lovers of Queanbeyan!
No its Not , hang on............. wait, isnt that what its about, NO, oh ok whats it all About Sabrina?
Sabrina: Maybe you should go to Queanbeyan, Linus.
Linus: To Queanbeyan?
Sabrina: It helped me a lot. Have you ever been there?
Linus: [thinks] Oh, yes. Yes. Once. I was there for thirty-five minutes.
Sabrina: Thirty-five MINUTES?
Linus: Changing plans. I was on my way to the Bay on a weekend away.
Sabrina: Oh, but Queanbeyan isn’t for changing plans, it's... it's for changing your outlook, for... for throwing open the windows and letting in... letting in you know? Love
Linus: [sadly], Paris is for lovers. Maybe that's why I stayed only thirty-five minutes.
Linus: What ya looking at me in that way?
Sabrina: All night long I've had the most terrible impulse to do something.
Linus: Oh, never resist an impulse, Sabrina, especially if it's terrible.
Sabrina: I'm gunna do it.
[reaching into her bag and pulling out a Tee-Shirt)
Sabrina: Here!
Linus: What's that for?
Sabrina: We can't have you walking up and down the Monaro Street looking like a tourist undertaker! And Another thing, never wear a bum bag or a 35mm Camera. There's a unwritten law.
Linus: How am I ever going to get along in Queanbeyan without someone like you? Who'll be there to help me with my Fashion, to tell me what shirt to wear?
Sabrina: I don’t know! Suppose you bump into someone on the bridge or the park one day? A perfect stranger or a Hottie!
Linus: I have a better I suppose, Sabrina. Suppose I were ten years younger. Suppose you weren't in love with David. Suppose I asked you to... I suppose I'm just talking nonsense.
Sabrina: I suppose so.
Queanbeyan has 38 Hotels ,4 parks and a Café
Indigenous people first arrived in the Queanbeyan area of Ngambri and Ngunnawal land around 20,000 years ago. European settlers arrived in 1820, with the first use of land a property named 'Quinbean'; an Aboriginal word for 'clear water'
The indigenous name for Queanbeyan is ‘Quinbean” which is Aboriginal for 'clear waters' or 'beautiful woman'.
It is on Ngambri/Ngunnawal land. 'Quinbean' was the original name given to the area of the settlement by Timothy Beard.
Queanbeyan was Founded 1838
Queanbeyan was proclaimed a town in 1838, a municipality in 1885, and a city in 1972. During the 20th century it experienced rapid growth as a residential urban centre because of its proximity to the federal capital, Canberra, which began to be built in the 1920s.
By 1972 the town had grown to the extent of easily meeting the requirements of population and independence for a change in status. On June 14, 1972 there was a new proclamation – Queanbeyan was a city..
Queanbeyan has 38 Hotels ,4 parks and a Café
If you want to go swimming in the Queanbeyan River (downstream of dam wall only) this includes fishing. canoeing, kayaking, sailing or boating (using electric motors only)
For the best fishing spots, head down the Queanbeyan River below the dam wall where you'll find the two most popular spots, the Cascades and the Downstream picnic area. You can also chuck a line in at the southern end of Googong Foreshores as well as the southern end of the Queanbeyan River and Burra Creek.