About an hour’s north of Brisbane, the capital city of Queenslane is the Sunshine Coast with it’s wow line up of stunning white sand surf beaches. Caloundra is the most southern beach community followed by Mooloolaba, Alexandra Headlands, Maroochydore, Mudjimba, Coolum, Sunshine Beach and Noosa. There are more delightful beaches tucked away, but these are the main ones.
There are many dog friendly beaches for your furry buddy, our favourite being Stumers Creek just north of Coolum.
As well as beaches there are many relaxed restaurants and bars with waterviews and inventive menus.
Try Nguyen Bros. in Maroochydore for fantastic Pho.
Or Rice Boi on the Wharf Mooloolaba for funky industrial design and a street food inspired menu.
And Bao Down at Mt. Coolum Shopping Centre.
Bao Down, I bow down now to your awesome food and mural designs. Fleetingly I wondered how a yum Bao restaurant would fit the Mount Coolum shopping centre. Don’t get me wrong I love this shopping centre – it has my favourite hippy shop, Dragonfly Dreaming just two shops away from Bao Down. But I […]
The Sunshine Coast in Queensland has a stellar line-up of sun-soaked beaches stretching 65 km north from Caloundra to the celebrated holiday destination of Noosa. Most people visit Noosa and the Noosa National Park, so it makes perfect sense to combine the two in a Noosa National Park Walk from Sunshine Beach to Noosa Heads. […]
Australia is a massive country to explore and being surrounded by gorgeous blue ocean, it goes without saying that a beach holiday is high on many holidayer’s To Do List. Coolum Beach in Australia’s Sunshine State is a great place for a relaxing beach holiday. Coolum Beach Holiday check list Cool blue water. hot summer […]
Our family are serial Sunshine Coast holiday-makers and no Robinson holiday is over without first having visited Eumundi Market, at least once. Hubby and I were discussing the other day why we keep coming back year after year – 20 years to be precise. In this post we discuss the Market’s success and advise how to […]
Jelly 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 the Sunshine […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Walking from the North Shore at Mudjimba through the She Oaks to the beach, I was once again mesmerised by the sparkling blue of the ocean on the Sunshine Coast. 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 […]
This was an entry I was working on for the Nuffnang and Queensland Tourism competition. I was focussing on other things and never finished it in time. Being budget minded in more things than travel and not wanting to waste my time and effort I decided to publish it as a blog post anyway. The […]