Cammoo Cave

Useful Information

Location:	74-76 Camoo Caves Rd, Mt Etna Caves National Park QLD 4702. Bruce Highway, 3 km from Caves Township, Rockhampton, 4700. Cammoo section of the national park, 600m self-guided walk. (-23.1640132, 150.4671822)
Open:	closed. [2026]
Fee:	closed. [2026]
Classification:	Karst Cave Devonian riffs
Light:	Electric Light
Dimension:
Guided tours:	selfguided, D=45 min. guided tours and night tours after prior arrangement. V=10,000/a[2000]
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	no
Bibliography:	Nicholas White (2008): Mt Etna Quarries Transferred to Queensland Parks Service, . pdf Peter Berrill and Dianne Vavryn (2025): An Overview of the Mt Etna Campaign, . pdf
Address:	Cammoo Caves, Cammoo Caves Road, The Caves, Qld, 4702, Tel: +61-7-4934-2774. John & Evie Trenneman, Proprietors. Capricorn Tourism & Development Organisation Inc., PO Box 1313, Rockhampton, Qld, 4700, +61-7-4927-2055, Fax: +61-7-4922-2605, E-mail:
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History

1966	opened to the public.
27-NOV-1999	Cammoo Caves was added to the Mt Etna Caves National Park.

Description

The name of Camoo Caves is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "water". The cave was a place were always water was. The limestone of Camoo Caves is a 380 million years old fossilized coral reef which is proved by numerous fossil specimens. The cave has bat inhabitants, among them the rare ghost bat, Australia’s largest carnivorous bat. This was one of the reasons, why the cave was added to the Mt Etna Caves National Park in 1999. The caves were acquired with funds from the Queensland Government, Pacific Lime, the Central Queensland Speleological Society and the Federal Government.

The cave was operated as a show cave, but it seems it has been gated and is not accessible any more. There is a 600 m hike circuite named after the cave which actually leads to the cave entrance. Its possible to have a look into the cave but not to enter. As far as we know there are no guided tours into the cave available any more.