Sunshine Coast   Attractions    

Amamoor State Forest - Gympie  

Amamoor State Forest produces some of the finest hoop pine in Queensland. More than 120 bird species have been sighted in its riverine rainforests and plantations of hoop and bunya pines. Enjoy a drive through the forested valley and explore interest ...

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Amytis Gardens Cooking School - Maroochydore  

Nestled in a gum forest in the Sunshine Coast hinterland is a beautiful retreat, Amytis Gardens Retreat and Spa, offering tranquillity, indulgence, pampering and a newly opened European Cooking School, led by Head Chef Matthew Conroy. A real learning ...

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Australia Zoo - The Crocodile Hunter - Beerwah  

Crikey! The Crocodile Hunter’s Australia Zoo is on Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. An easy one hour drive, just north of Brisbane, Australia Zoo offers a full day of wildlife action and adventure. They maintain the highest level of passio ...

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Beerwah Forest Reserve - Beerwah  

Beerwah Forest Reserve, on the banks of the Mooloolah River, protects one of the few remaining coastal rainforest areas in this region. Also known as 'Jowarra', this is an important home for wildlife, including the wompoo fruit-dove, eastern yellow r ...

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Bellingham Maze - Maroochydore  

The Bellingham Maze is a unique outdoor maze and puzzle attraction with lots of fun activities for families, adults, retirees and groups. First you have to get through the magic waterfall and then travel the rainforest walk to the cafe. The main att ...

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Benarkin National Park and State Forest - Benarkin  

Here, on the Blackbutt Range, you can see majestic hoop pines rise above dense subtropical rainforest. Pines planted in the 1920s thrive near blue gum and ironbark forests. At Benarkin picnic area, leave the D'Aguilar Highway for a 13 kilometre fore ...

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Berardo's on the Beach - Noosa Heads  

Designed to take full advantage of the breathtaking views of the sea, the North Shore and First Point, Berardo's on the Beach is just a towel-length away from the sand. Floor to ceiling slide-away windows allow the sound of crashing waves to accompan ...

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Berardo's Restaurant and Bar - Noosa Heads  

On Hastings Street, the classiest restaurant with a mantra of only the best of everything, is undoubtedly Berardo's Restaurant and Bar. The white decor, lush potted orchids, perfectly starched white canvas-covered chairs, taupe and white-striped cus ...

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Big Kart Track Pty Ltd - Landsborough  

The Big Kart Track and the Bungy Bullet are both situated at the one location on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia. You can either race your friends on Australia's fastest Go - Kart track or experience the G Forces of being shot 50 ...

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Blindmans Bluff Vineyards and Cellar Door - Kenilworth  

Visit Blind Man's Bluff Vineyards and Cellar Door in Kenilworth for a wonderful experience of wine tasting. Enjoy a glass of wine with a gourmet cheese platter, bread and dips, coffee and cake. Sit back, melt down, take in the peaceful country atmos ...

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Book Farm - Maleny  

Book Farm is a 56 acre property in the Maleny area’s part of the Blackall Range. There is a six acre pristine rainforest on Obi Obi Creek, and a number of areas under revegetation and regeneration. Bird life is abundant with occasional sightings of ...

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Brooyar State Forest - Gympie  

Brooyar State Forest features sandstone cliffs and a mix of tall open eucalypt forest with spotted gums. Pockets of riparian rainforest may be enjoyed along the creeks. Set up your tent or caravan on the grassy camping area beside Glastonbury Creek. ...

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Cherax Park Aquaculture - Gunalda  

If you are looking for a new destination that's interesting, professionally presented and best of all offers a fabulous seafood lunch at country prices, then come and discover the Cherax Park 'Pond to Plate experience'. The visit begins with an inf ...

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Club Pelican Sunshine Coast - Caloundra  

Located in the stunning surrounds of Golden Beach, Club Pelican is the first ever Greg Norman-designed course on Queensland's beautiful Sunshine Coast. Designed to rank among the premier courses in the world, this spectacular 18-hole, 6,359 metre cha ...

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Conondale National Park - Conondale  

Conondale National Park forms the heart of an extensive area of forests in the unspoiled forests of Conondale Range. It is an important area, protecting the habitats of many rare and threatened animals, including the rarely-seen yellow-bellied glider ...

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Cooloola Wilderness Trail - Rainbow Beach  

This trail in the Cooloola Section of the Great Sandy National Park offers walkers a wilderness experience of wildflowers, chattering birds, cool clear waterways and solitude. This is a harsh yet stunning coastal environment, where conditions vary gr ...

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Cooloola, Great Sandy National Park - Noosa Heads  

In Cooloola, Great Sandy National Park you can experience the majesty of nature's sculpture in sand. Massive dunes, towering cliffs of coloured sands and wide ocean beaches have been etched by wind and water. Tall forests, fragrant wildflower heaths ...

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Currimundi Lake (Kathleen McArthur) Conservation Park - Caloundra  

Currimundi Lake, Kathleen McArthur National Park is a natural gem which has survived despite its proximity to Sunshine Coast developments. A pocket of the wallum heath which once covered much of coastal southern Queensland thrives on Lake Currimundiâ ...

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Delicia Road Conservation Park - Mapleton  

Delicia Road Conservation Park on the scenic Blackall Range is a small park protecting remnant forest communities. It is a refuge for wildlife and a special place where visitors can enjoy a peaceful native forest. The land was generously donated by L ...

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Double Island Point - Rainbow Beach  

Double Island Point is located just south of Rainbow Beach. The point is a magnet for marine life of every description. Dolphins and whales (the latter from July to November) are a common sight there and Wolf Rock, a formation of four volcanic pinnac ...

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Emu Creek State Forest Park - Benarkin  

In Benarkin State Forest on the Blackbutt Range, majestic hoop pines rise above dense subtropical rainforest. Pines planted in the 1920s thrive near blue gum and ironbark forests. From the Benarkin day-use area, just off the D'Aguilar Highway, enjoy ...

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Eumundi Markets - Eumundi  

The Eumundi Market is one of Australia's leading tourist attractions and is held every Saturday and Wednesday of the year come rain, hail or shine. Situated in the heart of the historic town of Eumundi is the original world-renowned Eumundi Market, e ...

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Ex "HMAS Brisbane" Dive Site - Mooloolaba  

The Ex "HMAS Brisbane" nicknamed "The Steel Cat", is a Royal Australian Navy destroyer that served in the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. Sunk in July 2005, the 133 metre long ex-warship is sitting upright on her keel, buried in sand at 27m off the coast of ...

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Ex-HMAS Brisbane Conservation Park - Mudjimba  

Dive the Brisbane and experience this historical treasure and budding environmental wonder. The ex-HMAS Brisbane Conservation Park is an artificial reef and dive site off the Sunshine Coast, and is set to become one of Australia's premier dive attra ...

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Glass House Mountains National Park - Glasshouse Mountains  

Glass House Mountains National Park was named by Captain Cook as he mapped the Queensland coast in 1770. The 'Glass Houses' are distinctive volcanic plugs which rise abruptly out of a patchwork of farms and forests. The Glass House Mountains are spir ...

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Inskip Peninsula Recreation Area - Rainbow Beach  

The Inskip Peninsula Recreation Area separates open ocean surf from the sheltered estuary waters of Tin Can Bay and the Great Sandy Strait. This is a wetland of international importance. The sand spit is clad in casuarina, cypress pine and other coas ...

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io Maroochydore - Maroochydore  

io Maroochydore is Australia's first Altitude Simulation Centre open to the public. io Maroochydore provides a wellness technique normally only available to elite athletes and the very rich. io Maroochydore Altitude simulators get your body to work ...

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Jew Shoal Dive Site - Noosa Heads  

Jew Shoal is a large reef complex of ridges, canyons, bommies, and a solitary 11 metre pinnacle. The Caves has rugged rocky outcrops and swimthroughs; the gutters are covered in colourful hard and soft corals, and reef fish including angelfish, butte ...

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Kenilworth Bluff Winery - Kenilworth  

Visit long established Kenilworth Bluff Winery and cellar door for a unique wine tasting experience in a superb location. Relax on the new scenic deck underneath the majestic Kenilworth Bluff, peacefully overlooking the oldest vines on the Sunshine C ...

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Kenilworth Forest Reserve - Kenilworth  

Kenilworth Forest Reserve in the Conondale Range offers wonderful views, deep gorges, mountain streams and waterfalls. It protects rare and threatened plants and animals living in the rugged mountains. Enjoy camping in one of four forest camping area ...

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Kinaba Track - Noosa Heads  

The scenic waterways of the upper Noosa River and its tributaries are one of the Great Sandy National Park’s, Cooloola section most outstanding features. Tannins washed from decaying plant matter stain the waters a very dark colour, almost black in ...

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Kondalilla Falls Circuit - Montville  

Kondalilla Falls got its name from an Aboriginal word meaning "rushing waters", a good description of this waterfall during the summer wet season. Enter the cool, wet eucalypt forest with a rainforest understorey and walk to Picnic Creek. The circui ...

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Kondalilla National Park - Montville  

Kondalilla National Park takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning 'rushing waters'. In this cool haven on the Blackall Range, Skene Creek plummets 90 metre over the falls to a rock pool below. The park shelters five rare and threatened frog spe ...

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Landsborough Museum - Landsborough  

The original Landsborough Shire Council Chambers were designed in 1924 by renowned architect Walter Carey Voller and built from local timbers by A.E. Round in 1988 using funding from the Bicentenary. The old building was revamped and a new building ...

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Lazuli Blue Cafe - Noosa Heads  

Established in 1992, Lazuli Blue Cafe is a very popular place for locals and visitors. Famous for it's AUD6.00 'bacon and eggs' deal, it also offers an extensive breakfast menu, including the Breakfast Stack - roasted selected vegetables on Turkish ...

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Little Morgue Winery - Yandina  

The Little Morgue Winery is the most unique cellar doors in Australia. The winery is a landmark in the area and a favourite tourist attraction on the Sunshine Coast. Previously a working Morgue, the lower level now features a quaint unique winery. Th ...

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Ma'Mensa - Noosa Heads  

Ma'Mensa is a taste of Italy in Hastings Street. Noosa’s favourite Italian restaurant Ma’Mensa is one of the oldest established restaurants in Hastings Street and recently, a fresh new look has been given to the restaurant known for its big table ...

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Magic Mountain Dive Site - Mooloolaba  

The Magic Mountain dive site is located on the Outer Gneerings Reef on the Sunshine Coast. Magic Mountain is a large group of rocky outcrops from a sandy ocean floor with numerous gullies, ravines, bommies, swim-throughs and pinnacles which house sof ...

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Mapleton Falls National Park - Mapleton  

Mapleton Falls National Park marks the point just west of Mapleton where Pencil Creek cascades 120 metres over an escarpment. This small, day-use-only park shelters many bird species, including the peregrine falcon, eastern whipbird and wompoo fruit- ...

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Mapleton Forest Reserve - Mapleton  

In Mapleton Forest Reserve, Mapleton Forest Drive winds through deep forest, past Cooloolabin Dam, to Point Glorious lookout where great coastal and hinterland views await. Picnic at the Mapleton day-use area near Cedar Creek’s headwaters or camp a ...

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Mount Allan Trail - Kenilworth  

In the rugged Conondale Range are some of Queensland's most popular and picturesque forests, including Kenilworth Forest Reserve. Luxuriant rainforests, tall eucalypt forest, mosaics of plantation forests, waterfalls, boulder-strewn creeks and spect ...

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Mount Beerwah Track - Beerwah  

In the Glass House Mountains, remnants of the open eucalypt woodland and mountain heath vegetation, which once covered the coastal plains, provide a home for an interesting variety of wildlife including 26 rare and threatened plants. This walk takes ...

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Mount Ngungun Track - Beerwah  

Named by Cook during his epic voyage along Australia's east coast, the Glass House Mountains are rhyolitic volcanic plugs left by volcanic activity millions of years ago. This area has special significance for the Gubbi Gubbi Aboriginal people. Remn ...

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Mt Tibrogargan - Beerwah  

Named by Cook during his epic voyage along Australia's east coast, the Glass Houses are rhyolitic volcanic plugs left by volcanic activity millions of years ago. This area has special significance for the Gubbi Gubbi Aboriginal people. Remnants of t ...

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Mudjimba (Old Woman) Island Dive Site - Mooloolaba  

Mudjimba (Old Woman) Island is on the Sunshine Coast just off from Mooloolaba. Snorkellers can enjoy the coral gardens off Mudjimba Island which start at just 2 metres depth. Extensive fields of hard and soft coral with plenty of gullies, ledges, bo ...

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Noosa Heads Coastal Track - Noosa Heads  

Spectacular views can be seen from several lookouts along the track. You will also see coastal rock formations such as the Boiling Pot and Hells Gates. Beaches include Tea Tree Bay, a pandanus-lined sandy beach, the more rocky Granite Bay, historic W ...

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Noosa National Park - Noosa Heads  

Noosa National Park, a chunk of wild coastline jutting into the ocean, is understandably one of Australia's most visited parks. Wallum heaths, woodlands and pockets of rainforest with hoop and kauri pine are important refuges for wildlife, including ...

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On the Ridge Cooking School - Kureelpa  

Learn how to cook at On the Ridge Cooking School by creating, cooking and celebrating good food, whilst experiencing the lifestyle and the beauty of the wonderful Sunshine Coast hinterland. Their cuisine is modern Australian, taking the best ideas, u ...

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Rainbow Beach Hotel - Rainbow Beach  

The Rainbow Beach Hotel offers a relaxed laid back atmosphere with ocean views from the Palm Grove and Beach Bar. The menu selections are second to none and have a seafood influence, and the prices reflect good value. The ‘Rocks Wrecks’ photo c ...

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Seafood Cruise Mooloolaba Party Boat - Mooloolaba  

Seafood Cruise Mooloolaba Party Boat offers a unique dining experience with a full all you can eat hot and cold seafood buffet with either a two and a half hour lunch or sunset cruise. You will love the ultimate seafood dining cruise aboard the new ...

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editors picks

Explore Robe, South Australia

gfitter | 2008-08-21 | Whilst enduring my hectic pace of life in Melbourne, Australia, there is always a place of relaxation in my mind when I recall my times spent exploring the Limestone Coast, South Australia. | read more

Explore Hobart Tasmania with Max Walker

maxwalker | 2008-10-30 | Despite a life rich in experience, I am still, will always be … a slow talking Tasmanian, with the legacy of 5 broken noses from playing football. | read more

Is Melbourne the latte capital of Australia?

miekecasanova | 2008-09-23 | I have to accept that to start my day with a kick, I need that expresso coffee that Melbourne is famous for. | read more

The Mornington Peninsula (Vic)

mwheeler | 2008-08-13 | Mornington Peninsula (Vic) a kaleidoscope of activities only 60 minutes from Melbourne | read more

Cradle Mountain

naturalwanders | 2008-09-08 | One can fly into Launceston or Devonport, hire a car, and drive to the Cradle Mountain end of Cradle Mountain-Lake St.Clair National Park. | read more

Shark Bay World Heritage Region, Western Australia

naturalwanders | 2008-09-17 | Just past the Overlander Roadhouse is the turn-off for Shark Bay. Shark Bay is a World Heritage area, and the first place to stop is at Hamelin Pool to see the Stromatolites. | read more

Shelter from the rain

DaanSpijer | 2008-09-22 | An impending storm, an invitation to shelter in a guest-house and the unexpected consequences. | read more

Eumundi Market

Emma | 2008-09-05 | Eumundi Markets are in Southern Queensland (Sunshine Coast) and are a short drive from the popular tourist destinations; Noosa, and Maroochydore. | read more

Whale Watching in Hervey Bay near Fraser Island, Queensland

Kristy79 | 2008-09-02 | Whale Watching in the pristine waters of Hervey Bay with the magnificent backdrop of Fraser Island. | read more

The Saga of the Randy Old Goat

barnesbay | 2008-10-16 | On a balmy Autumn afternoon in early May 1997, I was enjoying a relaxing game on the computer, when the phone rang.... | read more

 

 

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