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Jellies at Coolum Beach

By Jan Robinson 8 Comments

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Sea Jellies or Blubbers are appearing like blobs of Alien gloop at Coolum Beach. I’ve seen bright blue Jellies before, but this batch is in the brown colour range. There are many different species with the biggest I’ve seen measuring 35 cm across, ranging down in size to a cute 6cm. Coolum Beach is on …

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Coolum Beach by Instagram

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For those who didn’t know, we’ve uprooted ourselves from our home town of some sixty years and relocated to the Sunshine Coast just 98 km north of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, the Sunshine State. Lets explore our new home Coolum Beach by Instagram. It was a big move distance-wise, some 1,243 kilometres by road …

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Coolum a Beautiful Australian Beach

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Australia has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world and Coolum on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland is a real beauty. Queensland’s Sunshine Coast stretches 55 km from Caloundra near the top of Bribie Island in the South to iconic Noosa in the north. Coolum is the name of a beachside town, beach …

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Sunshine Coast Food with a View

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On Friday 18th July, 2014,  Noosa on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, was named an Australian National Surfing Reserve.  It joins the other select few – Manly N.S.W., Margaret River W.A. and Phillip Island Vic. … in recognition of world-class breaks and local surf heritage.  The Reserve is positioned between the Noosa River mouth and north Sunshine …

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Pincushion Island at the Mouth of the Maroochy River Queensland

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Walking from the North Shore at Mudjimba through the She Oaks to the beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, I was once again mesmerised by the sparkling blue of the ocean. It reminded me of a friend we made in Turkey who said of the Mediterranean “It’s always so sparkly”.   Although we were some 1200km …

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Yandina Market

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For many years we have visited Eumundi Markets and Peregian Markets on the Sunshine Coast.  This year on our annual pilgrimage to the Sunshine Coast, to Coolum Beach in particular, we ventured the 18km inland to Yandina.  It turns out that Yandina is a fantastic country town, and how we managed to overlook it previously …

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COOLUM IS COOL

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Historically we are Peregian Beach holidayers but although we still have many wonderful memories of holidays spent there, we now agree that Coolum is Cool. At Peregian Beach, prime holiday properties cluster on the ocean side of David Low Way, the coastal highway which hugs the coastline from Bli Bli on the Maroochy River to Noosa in …

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