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Dicky Beach

Dicky Beach is both a beach and coastal suburb of Caloundra in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Dicky Beach
Dicky Beach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Dicky Beach is both a beach and coastal suburb of Caloundra in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Dicky Beach had a population of 1,921 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dicky Beach

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Old Caloundra Light

    Old Caloundra Light, also known as Old Caloundra Head Light or Cape Caloundra Light, is an inactive lighthouse located in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia. It is the oldest surviving building in Caloundra.

    2 km · lighthouse in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Queensland Air Museum

    The Queensland Air Museum is a not-for-profit all-volunteer aviation museum located in the Caloundra Airport precinct in Queensland, Australia. Its mission is to collect and preserve all aspects of aviation heritage with an emphasis on Australia and Queensland and to display these for the enrichment of the public.

    3 km · aerospace museum in Sunshine Coast, Queensland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kings Beach Bathing Pavilion

    Kings Beach Bathing Pavilion is a heritage-listed changing rooms at Ormonde Terrace, Kings Beach, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Clifford Ernest Plant and built in 1937 by Ralph Alexander Lind.

    2.2 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park

    Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park is a heritage-listed caravan park at Bowman Road, Caloundra CBD, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1912 onwards.

    2.6 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Caloundra Lighthouses

    Caloundra Lighthouses are a heritage-listed pair of lighthouses at 3 Canberra Terrace, near Arthur Street, Kings Beach, Caloundra, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. The first, known as the Old Caloundra Light, was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built in 1896; the second, New Caloundra Light, was built in 1968.

    2 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    New Caloundra Light

    New Caloundra Light, also known as New Caloundra Head Light, is an inactive lighthouse located in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia. It stands on Canberra Terrace near downtown Caloundra.

    2 km · lighthouse in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Roy Henzell Oval

    Roy Henzell Oval is a cricket ground in Caloundra, Queensland, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1981 when Queensland Country played the touring West Indians.

    2.1 km · cricket ground in Caloundra, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Dicky Beach

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 22 km · Brisbane (BNE), 67 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 158 km
Stations
Caloundra Airport, 3.6 km
  • Brisbane → Dicky Beach
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · A$11–15
  • Gold Coast → Dicky Beach
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · A$21–28
  • Toowoomba → Dicky Beach
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · A$26–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dicky Beach

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dicky Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    175 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,805 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,911 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,388 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,938 km

If you know how people move in Dicky Beach – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dicky Beach

Dicky Beach is 15 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caloundratown in Queensland, Australia1.8 km
  • Caloundra Westsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.7 km
  • Aroonasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia1.9 km
  • Currimundisuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Moffat Beachsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia900 m
  • Wurtullasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.1 km