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Sunshine Coast Golf and Sport

Our 300 days of sunshine create a year-round paradise for golfers. The world's golfing greats, like five-times British Open champion Peter Thomson, Australia's own Greg Norman, Robert Trent Jones Jnr and world-renowned golf course designer Mike Wolveridge, have created courses to complement the Coast's shining natural beauty.

Hone your game under blue skies as you stroll through pockets of rainforest, past fresh and saltwater lakes and majestic stands of melaleucas. Join the gallery for all the colour and excitement of the Australian PGA Championship, hosted each year by Hyatt Regency Coolum. The world's top golfers will be within putting distance!

While the Sunshine Coast is blessed with championship courses, Hyatt Regency Coolum, Twin Waters, Noosa Springs and Pelican Waters, there are also dozens of excellent public courses offering great value games. You'll be welcomed by the locals.

Vast national parks and state forests, peaceful lakes, mysterious everglades and dramatic rocky outcrops are the setting for some truly memorable outdoor adventures. Create your own, or join a 4x4 camping adventure of the wild Cooloola coast. Join a river cruise with an accredited guide and learn about our river systems and their unique qualities. Paddle a canoe quietly through the everglades, a haven for cormorants, osprey, eagles, ibis and cockatoos.

Walk spectacular forest and coastal trails to spot dolphins and from June to October, mighty humpback whales. The coastal walk at Point Cartwright offers greatvantage points. Get your heart racing abseiling down a rock face in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Test your nerves with wave jumping and thrilling high speed manoeuvres on a jet boating ride. Hire a long board for the ultimate surfing experience. Surf schools will have you standing up on your board and catching waves after your first lesson! Deep sea fishing; the simple pleasure of casting a line off a jetty or beach; or the gentle art of fly fishing, are all possible on the Coast.

There are world-class dive sites like Wolf Rock off Double Island Point, Jew Shoals off Noosa, Old Woman Island adjacent to Mudjimba Beach and the Gneering Shoals off Mooloolaba. The decommissioned destroyer, ex-HMAS Brisbane lying three nautical miles off the Sunshine Coast, will create one of the world's premier scuba dive sites.

For a birds' eye view of the water and hinterland try parasailing, a silent glider flight, floating at dawn in a hot air balloon above the majestic Glass House Mountains or the adrenalin-pumping thrill of tandem skydiving.

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