We just love Caloundra because it has something for everyone and is positioned both within easy access to both airports and every facility on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane.
You can drive yourself or arrive by train and there are local buses and ones to get you around the coast or to the airport. Caloundra itself has several large supermarkets and department stores plus a range of speciality shops for clothes, food and entertaining. To cater for all age groups and tastes, one can fine dine, have a relaxing pub meal or buy take away fish and chips to eat on the beach. There are tremendous facilities all along the coastline with free BBQ's and picnic tables on the beaches as well as in the parks, which also meet the beach.
Swimming is good for both surfers and paddlers with 4 or 5 beaches within 10 minutes of Caloundra and one of it's greatest benefits is that families have safe quiet waters along with open surf and lifeguard patrolled stretches.
All beaches are sandy but also have rock headlands to walk or fish from with nice elevated board walks and vantage spots to sit and admire the view. We love Caloundra and spend our time between UK, France, Brisbane and Caloundra because we find it one of the most relaxing, safe, enjoyable, quality lifestyle places in the World today.
Hi, could you please tell me if you would be able to live here and not have a car. Am looking to move somewhere with good public transport and walking distance to shops etc.
Thank you! When we returned from overseas, we lived in Caloundra for 6 months before buying a car and completely relied on walking and catching buses. The services are reliable, frequent and good value with connections also to train stations for longer trips to Brisbane, an hour away.
Great review thanks and Caloundra sounds lovely. Unfortunately Homely doesn't display dates on all reviews, I asked saying this made reviews less valuable given how much areas can change etc in just a year or more, but they said they don't because they want to encourage newer reviews - so looks like they're not going to start.
Therefore can someone please tell me whether it's still the safe friendly place or whether things have changed, like a rise in drug use and associated crime? Thanks for any help. Thanks for the detailed report kerry I'd be interested to hear where you moved to after Caloundra and if you found anywhere nicer. Caloundra has the best of all of Queensland. Sun, surf, sand and beautiful sunsets. The area is undervalued and will explode over the next decade. Due to the relaxed way of life and clear air, access to surf, fishing and amenties, Caloundra has to imrpove in value exponentially.
There need to be a few more large shopping precincts and Caloundra will have it all. New housing estates will ensure that there is the poplation to sustain new shopping developments. Hopefullty the local council will be able to keep up with it. Or there's already plenty there catering to this need? Thanks in Advance. Caloundra West is ideally located only minutes away from the commercial centre of Caloundra and the beach whilst retaining a feeling of solitude and ambience.
Great parks and walkways, quiet apart from the ocasional aeroplane with lovely streetscapes. A great place to own a home and live. Perfectly positioned just a short walk from the sparkling waters of Golden Beach at the Sunshine Coast and now boasting At Nightcap at Golden Beach Tavern, enjoy a refreshing dip in the outdoor swimming pool or show off your culinary skills Caloundra Central Apartment Hotel is central to everything on the vibrant Sunshine Coast, including some of Australia's Relax on the absolute waterfront in two and three-bedroom fully self-contained apartment accommodation.
Within minutes w In the heart of Caloundra overlooking the Pumicestone Passage Relaxation mixes with adventure and nature complements The Waterford Prestige Apartments offers large open plan apartments in the heart of Caloundra and steps away from Bulcoc Cheltenham Apartments offers modern and clean holiday accommodation with stunning ocean views and just a three minute wa Escape to Caloundra's luxury resort, superbly positioned within the newly renovated Boardwalk precinct and over looking Caloundra is situated a Tranquil Shores Self Contained Holiday Apartments is the ideal holiday destination for families, couples old and young.
Imagine your perfect holiday in beautiful Caloundra - if lazing by the pool, relaxing on your balcony, or easily wanderi Caloundra Jet Ski is Queensland's premier jetski experience.
Queensland Air Museum is Australias largest and most diverse historic aviation display. Located at Caloundra on the beau Golden Beach. Water Cycling is a great way to enjoy the outdoor lifestyle of the Sunshine Coast and stay fit and healthy while on holi Explore the Sunshine Coast on an Active Escapade. A day of Health, Fun and Wellness. Embark on an adventure with fun-l Locals from the southern-end of the Sunshine Coast like to get up early and make the most out of each and every day.
Caloundra is the ideal place for a family holiday. Just an hour north of Brisbane, it's perfect base for your next Sunsh When you holiday in Caloundra, the laid-back atmosphere and the playful sounds of your family enjoying the sunshine will The southern-end of the Sunshine Coast, from Caloundra to Kawana, is teaming with casual sea-side bars and restaurants s It offers swimming, fishing and surfing, as well as children's play facilities, a skate park and picnic-barbecue facilities.
The beach is edged by trees and bushes giving it a pleasant wildness even though the Dicky Beach Family Holiday Park is only a few metres from the surf. Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out. The plaque underneath the propellor explains: "The Dicky , an iron screw steam vessel, was built in by G.
The Dicky was on a voyage from Rockhampton to Brisbane with sand and water ballast in February, when she encountered a very severe gale. This prevented her from rounding Point Wickham Caloundra Head. She was being driven towards the reef and her master, Captain John Summers Beattie, to save life and property, steered for the shore and stranded her in the vicinity of John Wilson's House on 4th February.
No lives were lost. The wind and waves built up a sand bar, and all efforts to refloat the Dicky failed. The propellor Currimundi Beach North of Dicky Beach, stretching for 8 km as a beautiful, unspoilt strand, is a beach divided into four separate sections: Wurtulla, Bokarina, Warana and Buddina.
It is backed by foreshore parkland and extends all the way to Point Cartwright at Mooloolabah. It is a delightful, popular walk where visitors and locals can exercise, enjoy the views across the Coral Sea and Pumicestone Passage, stop for coffee at the numerous cafes and just enjoy the relaxed ambience of this balmy and charming holiday and retirement destination.
Each year three more names are added. Over the years it has deteriorated and today it is barely a highlight. Still it is worth checking out. Ben Bennett Bushland Park Located between Queen Street and Nicklin Way, this luxuriant green space to the west of the city centre includes a patch of vine forest, melaleuca, eucalypts, hakea, casuarinas and a water-lily lagoon. It is a ideal spot for walk through greenery and it offers an excellent opportunity for bird watching.
The Sunshine Coast Guide notes: "The reserve is a great place to study the beauty of the wildflowers, bird watch or just sit and enjoy a quiet hour on secluded seating, which is provided throughout the reserve. The Ben Bennett Bushland Park also features walking tracks which guide visitors through the vegetation communities of Melaleuca and Eucalypt forests, coastal heaths and one of the few areas of coastal lowland vine forest.
Sugar gliders, possums and owls are just some of the shy creatures that venture out at night. Tel: 07 The collection now has a staggering 89 complete aircraft from Australia's aviation past, a number of other craft in various states of completion, dismantlement and restoration some on display and some in storage and plenty of aviation memorabilia.
Those on display include fighter planes, sports planes, utility vehicles, transport planes, airliners, executive jets, helicopters, replicas and bombers. Lighthouses There is a fascinating story which attaches to these two lighthouses which can be seen on Canberra Terrace up the hill from Bulcock Street.
The original lighthouse, which was built on the hill in because Caloundra and the Pumicestone Passage had become the main access point to Brisbane harbour was an oil filled wick burner.
In it was upgraded and could be seen 19 miles out to sea. In the second lighthouse - a signal station, light and radar installation - was built beside the original lighthouse which was duly moved to Golden Beach where, for years, it operated as the clubhouse for the Power Boat Club.
In the old lighthouse was moved back to its original position next to the Signal Station.
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