Stay on the Line
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A free psychological thriller you play around your own home: lock down every device in your house before it finishes learning you, with after-hours support on the line until first light.
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Hunts in Caloundra
Sector // Caloundra, Sunshine Coast
At the southern end of the Sunshine Coast: the headland, the lighthouses and the town centre.
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Not out and about today? These play on your phone, on the couch. Everything you can play at home.
The Keeper's Log
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Caloundra, late 1942. The lighthouse keeper rings you in the night: something in his own log is wrong, and he needs a stranger's eyes. Five puzzles, three phone calls, one night. Free, and it plays anywhere.
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Noosa
The Missing Surfboard
A$5at launch until 31 March 2027, then A$8
5.10am in Noosa, and the middle hook in the surf shed is empty. The paddle-out is at 6.30. Pops wrote everything down: follow sixty years of Noosa surf to find his board in time.
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Caloundra
The Wreck at Dicky Beach
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A tin box in a beachcomber's shed at Dicky Beach, and a letter from a ship's boy who was aboard the SS Dicky when the storm drove her ashore in 1893. Open it, and follow him through the gale.
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Glass House Mountains
The Glass House File
A$5at launch until 31 March 2027, then A$8
A $2 shoebox from a garage sale: tapes, logbooks and a badge from the Night Owls Sky Watch Club, and four strange lights logged on one winter night in 1974. You are the club's new duty officer.
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Summer of '86
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January 1986, the last day of the summer holidays. Robbie, twelve, has vanished from the bike rack outside the milk bar, and you have until the streetlights come on to find him.
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Town hunts, coming 2027
Outdoor escape games and story trails in real Sunshine Coast streets. Open a case file to get an email the day it opens.
Caloundra
The Keeper's Last Light
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Late 1942. A convoy is massing off Caloundra Head, the lighthouse keeper has vanished, and someone inside the signal station wants the light switched on before dawn. Four suspects, ten stops and one night to keep the light dark.
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Caloundra
The Caloundra Art Trail: Pip and the Pelican
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A pelican has stolen a young artist's sketchbook. Win back every page at Caloundra's public artworks.
Case file →Things to do in Caloundra
Caloundra sits at the southern tip of the Sunshine Coast, looking across the Pumicestone Passage to Bribie Island. The first public land sales were in 1883 and the first guesthouse opened in 1888, when holidaymakers came by horse-drawn coach from the railway at Landsborough. The headland was a restricted area in the Second World War, and the town grew fast as a holiday spot after it.
Things to do
- Kings Beach: a patrolled beach that is popular for learning to surf, with a seawater fountain for water play (8am to 5pm), playgrounds and the heritage-listed 1937 Kings Beach Bathing Pavilion.
- The Caloundra lighthouses: two heritage towers, from 1896 and 1968, on Canberra Terrace. Read our guide to the lighthouses.
- The Coastal Pathway: the Caloundra section follows the cliffs from Moffat Beach to Bulcock Beach, 4.5 km, and you might spot turtles or whales on the way.
- Shelly Beach rock pools: big pools at the foot of the headland at low tide.
- Bulcock Beach: a patrolled beach on the Pumicestone Passage, with a foreshore boardwalk.
- Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Avenue: free, Tuesday to Sunday.
- Queensland Air Museum, beside Caloundra Aerodrome: more than 80 historic aircraft, open daily except Christmas Day and Good Friday. Paid entry.
- The Sunday street fair on Bulcock Street, from 8am.
Getting there
About 90 km north of Brisbane, roughly an hour's drive depending on traffic. There is no train station in Caloundra itself: trains stop at Landsborough, with buses to the coast.
Did you know?
- In 1882 a lookout tower was built on the headland to watch for Russian warships. The lighthouse went up beside it in 1896.
- Dicky Beach is named after the ship Dicky, forced ashore there in a storm in 1893.
Check opening times and conditions before you go.
Guides for Caloundra
The Caloundra lighthousesTwo heritage towers, a road trip and a wartime headland.Free things to doBeaches, waterfalls, lookouts and free museums, coast to hinterland.Outdoor escape roomsEscape games played in real streets, town by town.School holidaysHoliday dates, free trails for kids and rainy-day games.