Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Tree Changers… Que & Jules Neale

…about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay Recent Hinterland treechangers, Que and Jules Neale, are sisters in their twenties who believe they have found the perfect place to settle, the ideal vibrant and creative community and the perfect business that will help them grow personally. This [...]

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Mark creates Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards

So, it is not surprising that the Sunshine Coast Council should ask Mark to design and cast in glass their Australia Day awards for 2012. For Mark’s awards design, he returns for inspiration to the Glasshouse Mountains, which have become the ubiquitous image of our Sunshine Coast environment and lifestyle. Over the years Mark has devised his [...]

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What’s Flowering Now?

Cassia Javanica INDIGENOUS to Indonesia Cassia javanica is considered to be one of the most spectacular flowering trees in the world. Belonging to a large genus of over 500 species of herbs, shrubs and trees. C. jarvanica is in the same family as Delonix regia (Royal poinciana). C. javanica is more cold tolerant than some cassias, yet [...]

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Wonderful Wildlife

IN LANDCARE, we mostly have a strong emphasis on planting, connecting, and generally looking after our vegetation in all its forms. This is not surprising given that carbon based life forms, including us of course, depend on plants for our survival. Plants also hold the country together; a bare landscape quickly erodes. However, we generally relate [...]

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In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

The fun of Discovery … AFTER MORE than two decades of walking through the Rainforests of the Blackall Range it’s still possible for me to come across a plant I haven’t seen before, which is such a buzz! On a bushwalk recently I was lucky enough to see two plants I hadn’t seen before, Hairy Helicia (Helicia [...]

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Rapskallion … on the deck

Rapskallion takes to the eastern road again this summer, pedalling their new five track E.P “Le chat et Fiddle” from Melbourne town to Crystal Waters in a blaze of sweat, colour, feathers and accordion powered riffage. “Le Chat et fiddle”(The Cat and Fiddle) is a collection of musical vignettes from a realm inhabited by back alley [...]

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Rain inside Beerwah Hotel

There’s only three of them but The Rain is a musical storm – a force to be reckoned with – and once those three-part harmonies and easy on the ears songs, penned by powerhouse writer Kelly Cork, soak into your bones .. you’re hooked. The Rain is the feature group at Beerwah’s Got Country on Saturday [...]

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Roots Beats & Special Treats

Palmwoods Hotel continues to bring the very best blues and roots artists to the Sunshine Coast hinterland. On Saturday December 17 Palmwoods Got The Blues is on again with three more of the highest quality blues acts touring Australia today. Since big Matt Southon began touring nationally, he has mightily impressed his knowledgeable music fans with his [...]

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Russian songstress at UpFront

In December Russian-born Innessa will make her Australian debut at the Upfront Club’s large stage in Maleny. At age 9, Innessa was invited to join the local choir and began her lifelong passion for music and performing. After several years of expanding her vocal talents and learning the guitar, by the age of 16 she had [...]

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15 year-old Hinterlander’s passion for photography

PHOTOGRAPHY – Jye Hardin JYE HARDING is an extremely motivated 15 year-old photographer who is eager to show his talent and particularly reveal the beauty of our local environment. At 15 Jye is getting work experience at professional Studio Republic on the Coast, as well as soaking up as much as possible online from such photographers s [...]

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