What is the Caldera Coast?

The Caldera Coast is where Husk Rum is made, and it's our provenance. 

The Caldera Coast does not respect state borders, instead it straddles QLD and NSW. It’s a geological zone with its own distinct geographic, hydrological, ecological and climatic characteristics. 

It has formed the basis of our commercial and recreational lifestyle for over 160 years since European settlement and sustained Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years before that. 

It is our place in the world, our provenance. Husk Rum is the spirit of the Caldera Coast - Pure Cane the most pure expression of its character and flavour. 

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 What is the Caldera Coast?

The Caldera Coast is the coastal fringe from Ballina to Burleigh Heads and the adjoining coastal plain from Mt Tamborine in the northwest to Canungra, down the western margin of the Border ranges to Kyogle, Casino and Lismore, all centred on Mt Warning and the Tweed Valley. 

It’s not an official geographic name, just one our founder Paul (who has a PHD in Geology) coined to describe the eroded remains of the Tweed Shield volcano active 23 million years ago. 

Basaltic remnants of the volcanic complex are preserved as headlands at Flat Rock, Lennox Heads, Broken Head, Cape Byron, Hastings Point, Cabarita, Kingscliff, Fingal/Cook Island, Point Danger, Kirra to Burleigh Heads, through the Mt Jeruselum and Nightcap Ranges, Border Ranges, Lamington National Park, Binna Burra, Numinbah Valley to Mt Tamborine. All our famous local surf breaks were formed as a result of the Tweed Sheild Volcano.

Over the last 23 million years rain fall and river action has carved out an erosional caldera, the deepest in the southern hemisphere, ~1000m deep. It's at the heart of this eroded caldera, minutes from the best surf beaches in Australia and nestled between ancient mountains and rainforest, that Husk Rum is made from farm to bottle.