Route 166

Naughty Noise Makers And What Should I Do? Well, we all have those scenarios with anything from the irritating idiot with the leaf blower...

The Local Dump - An Ancient Tradition Lost Remember when you were a kid, and no weekend was complete without a trip to the dump - even th...

Theebine Hotel Well, we used to call this hidden gem "Petticoat Junction", as it has a little rarely used (if ever) railway trac...

History Of Kenilworth (Info Courtesy of Wikipedia)   The Mary River was known to the Aboriginals as the Numabulla and the name for the ...

The Buderim Beast This is a great mystery that comes up from time to time....well documented sightings in various yards and even the local...

Well, if you are new to the region, this is an article from the Gympie times a few years ago regarding one of our favorite childhood expe...

Image Courtesy of Aero Power Flight School  * In his Journal on 17 May, 1770 Captain James Cook wrote: "These hills lie but a ...

 There are a number of possible explanations for Maroochydore. All are based around the black swans which can be seen in the area. Some i...

*There are two possible explanations for the naming of Maleny and both of them are spelling mistakes. One theory argues that it was named ...

*The town that grew up in the area around 1870 was known as Petrie's Creek. It was renamed Nambour in 1891. The name, a local Aborigina...

Image Courtesy Of Sunshine Coast Property Group *The local Aborigines, the Kabi Kabi, called the district around Yandina 'koongalba...

* Prior to European settlement the district was occupied by the Gubbi Gubbi people. * By the 1840s European graziers had established sheep...

  *Although there is some dispute as to the meaning of the word it is widely accepted that Tin Can Bay's name is a variant of the loca...

The following information and images have been directly copied from the Alexandra Headland Community Association . Click on the name to take...

 Astute Alexandra Headland Coolum - Did You Know? The name is derived from the local Undumbi word gulum or guloom , meaning "bl...