Sunshine Coasting
For the best of the Sunny Coast
Category: Things to do
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So anyways, we’re smack in the middle of the strawberry season. But isn’t it just the start of spring? Ah yes, but here on the Sunshine Coast our season runs from May through to October. The first strawberries begin appearing around Mother’s Day and come Melbourne Cup Day they’re gone. Fun fact 1: Queensland supplies…
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University of Sunshine Coast (USC) has come alive with a trail of magical lights this Christmas. A free event, it runs for 10 nights only – from 14-23 December 2018 and is fun for everyone. There’s the rainforest walk… The giant sticker wall… And so much more to look at. Oh, and all the…
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The birds and the sun are waking earlier and the days are getting longer. In a couple of weeks the rest of Australia will be winding their clocks forward for the start of daylight saving and those of us here in Queensland who work remotely back to Sydney each day will be cursing the time…
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If you’re into street markets, this is a good one. Apparently it’s been voted best street market on the coast. I’m not sure about that, but it is certainly the largest. As an aside, I’m not counting Eumundi as a street market – it’s in a class all of its own… Anyways, every Sunday –…
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Ok, right at the outset I’m going to apologise for the photos in this post. We’re still a little too used to eating a tad later than is fashionable on the coast and as a result, it was pitch dark when we arrived. Plus, it’s winter. I promise I’ll go back when the days are longer…
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It’s noisy up here, but through our helmets we can hear the chatter of firstly the Caloundra Air Controller and later the Sunshine Coast Control. The plane rises and falls gently as the wind catches her and moves her – and us – about. It’s as if we’re riding the swell of the wind. Below…
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There’s a flat part to the water – completely glass-like. It looks almost like an oil slick, but it isn’t. It’s a “footprint” left behind when a whale dives – as the up-thrust of it’s tail drives water to the surface. It’s just one of the ways that we know there are whales around…
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‘Ladies and gentlemen, you’ll need to go a long way before you see jumping as good as this.’ ‘And look at the condition of the ground – you don’t get it better than this.’ ‘No, you don’t – you’re in Maleny now. It’s doesn’t get any better than this.’ The ground announcers weren’t wrong –…
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We’ve been coming to Sea life (or Underwater World, as we’ve always called it) since Miss 19 was Miss still in a pram. It’s become a tradition – one of the first things we had to do each time we came to the coast. But it’s been a few years since we’ve been here and,…
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So yesterday we took ourselves off to Yandina Markets. I’d heard (and read) great things about this market and am sure we would have enjoyed it more if we were there to buy plants or look at bric-a-brac…but we weren’t. We were there for fresh produce. I ended up buying some lovely young ginger and…
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