Mooloolaba Beach and Ettamogah Pub

The Sunshine Coast is north of Brisbane. The beaches of the Sunshine Coast are some of the best in Australia for board riding and body surfing. The seaside town of Mooloolaba is 95 km north of Brisbane in the middle of the Sunshine Coast. Warm Pacific waves roll into shore. This is the view north from the Lifesaving Club.


This the Lifesaving Club - the blue flags mark the area patrolled for swimming. It is a relatively small swathe of beach, less than a hundred meters wide, but the life guards do an excellent job of keeping swimmers within the flags.



Grandad and Chloe played in the surf:



While mummy sculpted a turtle in the sand.



As we left the beach, we stopped for a moment to visit the Loo:



Before stopping, on the way home, for a beer at the Ettamogah Pub. The pub is inspired by the cartoons of Ken Maynard. Mr Maynard was a traffic policeman in Melbourne when he started drawing cartoons for police Life Magazine. Over time the Ettamogah Pub cartoon grew in popularity and the Aussie World theme park picked up this popularity to establish the Ettamogah pub as the anchor to the park.