Caloundra, Australia Travel Blogs

Petrie.. Our 2 night Stay.........
Jun 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 to ...

Rainbows on the Sunshine Coast
Nov 11, 2005 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

Caloundra, Glass House Mountains and Australia Zoo
Jun 2, 2006 (8 photos)

... enough people to have the essentials such as a decent second-hand bookshop. It was very nice, and were I inclined to settle in Australia, Caloundra would be in the running. It was here as well, that we had our first joint experience of an 'English Shop' ...

Monkey Madness!
Nov 6, 2009

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 round ...

Life of Luxury!
Nov 2, 2006 (7 photos)

... ! 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 ;) )
Jul 9, 2009 (22 photos)

... 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. Tuesday: ...

Retards....
Aug 17, 2009

... 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
Jun 11, 2008 (51 photos)

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 ...

Caloundra, visiting my aussies mate met in canada
Feb 18, 2008

Caloundra

Our new house
Apr 1, 2007 (11 photos)

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!
Jun 3, 2009 (30 photos)

... 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
Sep 11, 2007 (11 photos)

... 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
May 18, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Bundaberg to Mooloolaba
Dec 24, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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
Sep 7, 2007 (9 photos)

... , 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 and ...

Beaches Wars! From Rainbow to Dicky!
Sep 29, 2009 (23 photos)

... 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 in ...

At last...THE SUN
Sep 9, 2007 (1 photos)

    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, and ...

On to the Sunshine Coast
Feb 8, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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
Nov 19, 2007

... 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
Feb 8, 2005 (5 photos)

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 up.

Chitty flies home
Apr 28, 2008 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

More rain...
Dec 17, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

The Vacation Ends...and into the Bush
Sep 12, 2007

Day 8 September 11, 2007 I talked with my mom today over Skype (which, for those who haven't discovered it yet, is an AMAZING telecommunications program-www.skype.com) and she asked me what the gecko's name is. His name is Bertrand and I ...

Weekend at the beach
Jun 14, 2008 (24 photos)

... Harper who is two years old and her twin brothers Max and George who are one. We stayed with them in the beach house in Caloundra. It was a bit chilly on the beach but we went anyway, built sand castles and collected shells. Ellen also had fun at the park ...

Christmas Day service at Holy Trinity
Dec 25, 2005 (2 photos)

The church: Holy Trinity Anglian Church, Kawana Waters (Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane), Australia Denomination: Oh, very definately Anglican! The building: It's a new, modern building, light and airy which is what you need in this part of ...

Lazy days on the Sunshine Coast...
Dec 27, 2005 (6 photos)

... up with our friends Pete & Lisa from Brisbane who have planned out a few days of touring with us. First stop is Australia Zoo, home of Steve Irwin no less! ----------------------------- The fishing trip was great fun. We got up early and drove off ...

driving the coast
Jan 14, 2008 (6 photos)

we arrived to avoca beach and had a great visit with our friends frank, grace and carmel.   they pampered us and we enjoyed it immensely.    they took us to the beach near by as well.  they are such water babies! they gave ...

marycairncross park
Jan 19, 2008 (7 photos)

... took us all to marycairncross park.   this is old rainforest in a reserve.  it was really cool.   australia really isn't all desert like we thought! we saw lots of birds and trees and plenty of mosquitos.   we also saw ...

On the beach
Aug 1, 2008

We woke up to a gorgeous sunny day so headed straight up the highway to Caloundra, the first coastal town on the Sunshine Coast. After checking in to a caravan park we went straight to the beach, the first time Deb's has actually been in the sea in ...

To the Outback and beyond!
Feb 8, 2009

... or red,etc.) = capsicum Washrooms (called toilets) they have separate bath rooms (for a bath/shower) and toilet rooms Happy Australia Day Jan. 26th We travelled  south all day today. In and out of the rain, humid, but not quite so hot, ...