Caloundra
Travel Blogs from Caloundra, Australia
Rainbows on the Sunshine Coast
... we headed north to Caloundra where we stayed with our friend Kylie who we last saw in Mexico City about 14months ago !!! Caloundra is a lovely little place with a great beach which was only 2 minutes from Kylies lovely apartment (a wonderful break from ...
Petrie.. Our 2 night Stay.........
... a Dolphin diving up in the air, completely out of the water. All in all an excellent experience. We also spent a night in Caloundra at a lake. (For the life of me i can not remember the name - Lake Culimandi or something). Again just somewhere different ...
Back to Australia
Sunday night the 7th we finally reached the destination called 'home' and I must say it is so nice to be back, especially with my family. The last two days in Lusaka were full of meetings and extremely successful, especially in relation to partnering ...
Life of Luxury!
... ! As most of you know my brother Scott emigrated out over here with his wife Gill and my neices Emily and Georgia. They live in Caloundra which the greyhound will tell you is 50 minutes away from Maroochydore (but its only 20 mins- god knows which way the ...
Chillaxing with the relatives (well kind of ;) )
... a cuddily Koala who has become our new companion on our travels. The day ended with a lovely Sunday roast! YUMMY!!!! Monday: AUSTRALIA ZOO (Steve Irwin's territory)!!! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME! We'll let the photos talk for themselves on this one. ...
Retards....
... and saw about 20 pods of whales in the end. It truly was the most magical trip and would have been worth the journey to Australia just for this!!!! We returned very relaxed and realised we still didn't know where we were staying. We checked out email at a ...
Beach Time
Today was a fantastic day and one Ellen has been waiting for. We headed off to the beach on the Sunshine Coast in Caloundra called 'Kings Beach'. It was beautiful, the weather was perfect and we had a relaxing fun day. Ellen spent her time collecting ...
Our new house
Here are a few photos of our house/local wildlife/vegetation. More news coming soon... re. our recent trip top Byron Bay to the Blues and Roots festival. ...
Crikey!
... of excitement was off the scale! Shortly we were back on the road and heading North away from Brisbane towards another seaside town called Caloundra. A few days back we met a couple who were also in a Jucy camper like us. It was their last night though so ...
Urban Australian Life
... several days, but let be the first to tell you that it is a highly popular point of conversation here in Australia. Especially given the merciless 3-91 thrashing Japan received at the hand of the Wallabies. Apart from the Scotland-Portugal match and ...
Suburbia
... head for sunny (or not so sunny) New Zealand! Thanks again for a great time though guys. So I flew to Caloundra for my final evening in Australia. Met up with Dave, Rob and co and had a great evening out, which unfortunately ended up with going to bed ...
Dance weekend at last!
Wednesday March 31 my orchestra concert went well. It was a lot of fun playing the pieces but I was stressed out about leaving the next day and not having done anything to get ready. I also had two assignments I had to print and hand in still. I ...
Bundaberg to Mooloolaba
... Bundaberg. We got to Nambor late afternoon & were picked up by Anne's aunty Linda's husband David who drove us to their house in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. It's a lovley big airy house on the banks of a river that leads to the sea, and they have a ...
First Days in the Far South
... , and it is not really what I expected. That's not to say I'm not enjoying myself, and immensely (I'm in friggin' Australia!), but I hadn't expected a cold, never-ending deluge upon my arrival. And I am certainly enjoying the company of Jane and Neil ...
Juz tylko 100km do Brisbane
Rano zebralismy sie w poplochu w niesmialo wygladajacym zza ciemnych chmur sloncu i ruszylismy 50km dalej, trasa wzdluz wybrzeza. Trzeba przyznac, ze ta czesc Queensland jest bardzo malownicza i z przyjemnoscia obserwowalismy krajobraz za oknem. Po ...
På tur til Glass House Mountains
... til og gå en tur på 1,4 km ved Mount Beerwah, der er 556 meter højt. På turen dertil kørte vi lige forbi Australia Zoo, hvortil turen går i morgen. Da vi nåede Mount Beerwah blev vi desværre meget skuffede, da vi så, at stedet var blevet lukket ...
MAROOCHY
From Coolum I headed to Maroochy where I met up with Sher and Wendy again. Wendy has an amazing apartment there with a massive balcony that's as big as my house! I spent a couple of days/nights here swimming in the sea, having brekkie on the ...
Monkey Madness!
Me and Jon had both been looking forward to Australia Zoo (home of Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter) and it didn't disappoint. We were pleased we had found a 2 for 1 voucher on the back of a cereal packet so our day started on a high! Our first stop ...
day two of trip within a trip.
... were flags for all the countries being represented, USA (1 persona and a judge), Canada (3 of us, but one didn't show), Scotland, Australia and NZ. The bands were setting up as well and it was interesting seeing them practicing all over the city. By 6pm ...
At last...THE SUN
After four days of grim overcast I awoke yesterday (again, at an uncharacteristic 6:30am) to find a cloudless blue sky. I ran about five miles, hearing the excited chirruping of an incredible diversity of birds-magpies, butcherbirds, bee eaters, ...
On to the Sunshine Coast
... incredible stay on the Gold Coast with our awesome hosts showing us all the best local sites, we struck out on our own to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Driving on the wrong side of the road hasn't been much of a problem except Dennis keeps turning on ...
An End Before the End
... meal with Neil's folks in Brisbane. (In a warm house with glass windows and everything). Then we drove to Caloundra, where Brendan stayed a couple days to arrange a flight to Melbourne to stay with his uncle there. Meanwhile Jenn and ...
King's Beach - Caloundra
We probably spent most of our time on te Sunshine Coast at this beach so we decided to give it it's own entry so we could get some more pictures ...
Boxing day (2.juledag) i Australia Zoo
Af Dorthe Vækkeuret ringede kl. 7.00. Efter et godt morgenmåltid kørte vi mod Australia Zoo, Home of the Crocodile Hunter. Australia Zoo, der huser mere end 1200 forskellige dyr, er Australiens mest berømte turistattraktion. Parken der i 1970 blev ...
$600 Ford Laser
täällä ollaan nyt asuttu Caloundrassa, Sunshine Coastilla kaksi viikkoa ja mukavaa on ollut. Ostettiin auto $600 ja ollaan pyöritty sademetsissä ja vuorilla, kierrelty saaria, surffattu rantoja, lenkkeilty ja vietetty muutenkin paljon aikaa ...
Beaches Wars! From Rainbow to Dicky!
... find it back in Brisbane! A few more kilometres down the coast and we reached our final stop before we hand the van back. Australia is such a big place that there is no way we could visit everywhere and see everything. We have travelled almost 5,000 km ...
Chitty flies home
... day and watched the container ship carrying Chitty sail past and it was full of mixed emotions. We still had four weeks to enjoy Australia but Chitty had gone. Carolyn and I have had the time of our lives with Chitty and can't possibly get home before her ...
Juleaften i Caloundra
... mad, inden vi kørte den sidste etape til byen Caloundra (50 km), hvor vi havde booket de næste 3 overnatninger. På køreturen til Caloundra kørte vi ad den første motorvej, vi har været på i Australien så det var dejligt med 2 kørebaner og 110 ...
competition day 1
We got up super early again. Sarah and Amy were competing in the championship in the morning so we had to be at the stadium for a 7:30 start but we were all already up because of jet leg. Hannah and I watched the other two dance their fling and sword and ...
More rain...
... on camera but we had a go anyway! We didn't actually have that far to drive today as we were just hopping down to Caloundra, but the reason for this was we were heading for Australia Zoo on the way. This was the place set up by the infamous ...


