Best entertainers in Golden Beach

Golden Beach is the still-water side of Caloundra, the strip along the Pumicestone Passage where the water is flat, the parks run down to the sand and Bribie sits across the channel, and the closest act to it is a duo that lives here. Then it's Caloundra's own, a few minutes north at Bulcock Beach: singers, a wedding DJ, a DJ who runs karaoke, a face painter and a henna artist, followed by a soloist at Meridan Plains. None of the ten carry reviews, so the order is simply who's nearest. For a family afternoon in one of the Passage-front parks, that's the right way to read it.

The duo on Bribie Island North looks close on the card and isn't: it's across the water, and by road it's around through Caboolture and over the bridge, most of an hour. Everything else is the Sunshine Coast pool, singers and wedding singers first, then soloists, duos, cover bands and guitarists, most of it pinned to the coast at large with pockets in Buderim, Noosa Heads and Redcliffe. Golden Beach books quieter things than the surf side does, retirement village functions, kids' parties in the park, a wedding on the foreshore at dusk when the Passage goes glassy.