What are your favourite places in Australia and the Netherlands? As a Dutch Australian who has lived my life between the two countries, I’m sharing a few of mine.
One place that is very close to my heart is Caloundra, on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. I was born in Brisbane and my family then moved to Maleny when I was 9. From there, we did trips to the beach in Caloundra now and then as I was growing up.
With a population of around 50,000 Caloundra is small enough to still have some charm but large enough to have all the facilities you may need if you holiday there – or if you’re lucky enough to live there.
For a while, my parents lived in the suburb of Little Mountain though have now moved to another part of the Sunshine Coast.
Caloundra boasts several beautiful beaches: Kings Beach, Golden Beach, Moffat Beach, Bulcock Beach, Shelly Beach and Dicky Beach – all wonderful places to spend a day all year round. I remember wonderful evening sunset picnics at the aptly named “Happy Valley” which is adjacent to Bulcock Beach.
For more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloundra
https://www.visitsunshinecoast.com/Caloundra
Here’s a few of my favourite photos, mostly taken at Bulcock Beach
Have you been to Caloundra?
-Renee
Dutch Australian 
ik ben toen ik de eerste keer australie bezocht, naar Kuranda geweest vanuit Cairns met het treintje de bergen in een goddelijk plek . Kan mij het verhaal nog goed herinneren -over de aanleg van het spoorlijntje dat daar veel arbeiders zijn omgekomen ,Was aangelegd door gevangenen .. gr Herman Muller