Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Bush & Beach Walkers -

Walking schedule for January & February 2012 Tues 10 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Baroon Pocket to Kondalilla Falls. Medium/Hard walk. 3.5 hrs/11 klms Tues 17 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Mapleton National Park – T3 track. Easy walk. 2.5 hrs/7 klms Tues 24 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Booloumba Falls to Booloumba Creek Day Use Area. [...]

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Our Hinterland Weather - December 2011

Throughout the month La Niña was still active but considerably weaker than the very strong 2010-11 event. It is no wonder the month’s total rainfall of 329.2 mm exceeded the month’s average of 195.6 mm. The first week of summer brought a welcome change in the weather after the driest November in 17 years. An upper [...]

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Anthony’s Guitar … …named Maleny

HINTERLAND LUTHIER, Anthony Pizzica has designed the 4552 Series guitar and put Maleny on the guitar players’ map. Anthony Pizzica has a simple philosophy of life but a practical one. After all, he’s a married man with a child, who spends most of his time crafting and repairing musical instruments. Anthony is an artist and he [...]

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A snapshot of Penny Riddoch

“THE WEDDING PARTY is running behind on a very tight schedule. The bride is fretting that her dress won’t fit. The groom, meanwhile, has forgotten to pack black socks and is worried his white socks will be seen. Time is ticking on…” IN BETWEEN SNAPS, the photographer offers reassurance. It’s OK, she says calmly. You look beautiful. No-one [...]

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River School Calendar supports turtles

CLASS SIX at the Ananda Marga River School, with the help of Karen Shaw (Brush Turkey Enterprises), have designed and produced a calendar to raise funds for the Bribie Island turtle volunteers. The class had earlier been to Bribie Island and helped with sand dune revegetation and turtle fencing projects, and the students wanted to do [...]

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Chef to the stars settles on the Hinterland

After years of travelling the globe as personal chef to celebrity actors and rock stars, Brent Cressey has established a café in Maleny. Julie Shelton had a chat with him to find out just why he’s picked this region. IT SOUNDS like a dream job: cooking for A-list performers, flying in private jets to exotic locations [...]

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Chef Connections WITH Julie Shelton

Kyle Merillo Bistro Bunya CHANGE in a restaurant is generally a good thing: a different menu every year at least, a new chef every so often, and a new fit-out every decade at least. Managing that transition, however, can be tricky, and in the case of Maleny Hotel’s Bistro Bunya, change is happening slowly but strategically. The hotel’s [...]

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10 years of Colin’s fine foods

THEY say every dark cloud has a silver lining, and for Colin and Jean Cunningham it was the dark days of dairy de-regulation ten years ago that spurred them into setting up one of the most successful fine food businesses in Queensland. What they had to build on was Colin’s expertise as a former cheese maker [...]

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The woman who would be Sunshine Coast mayor

Sunshine Coast Councillor Debbie Blumel wants to be mayor of the next Sunshine Coast Council. At the time of going to press, she was the only councillor standing for the position, and the only woman. Debbie is known for her enormous hard work, both within council and on a variety of outside organisations. She agreed [...]

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$60,000 in grants awarded to three Hinterland environment groups

ALL THREE of the major environment groups in the Maleny region – Lake Baroon Catchment Care, Barung Landcare and Green Hills – received funding in the recent round of grants from the Federal Government’s Caring for Country program. The CFC program attracted fifteen hundred applications of which they were able to fund less than a quarter, [...]

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