Noosa Heads township and the river mouth — the drone view most live webcams approximate.

Noosa Heads township and the river mouth — the drone view most live webcams approximate.

Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

Public feeds · we link, we don’t scrape

Webcams

A short, honest list of public coastal webcams around Noosa. Where the operator allows embedding with attribution, we link; where the feed requires a link-out, we link.

Check the cam before you check the car keys.

Noosa Main Beach at midday, viewed from the headland.
Noosa Main Beach at midday, viewed from the headland.
Photo: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Long beach panorama — the angle most of the public webcams capture.
Long beach panorama — the angle most of the public webcams capture.
Photo: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aerial of the river mouth — used by the Council coastal-cams overview.
Aerial of the river mouth — used by the Council coastal-cams overview.
Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
The Boardwalk along Main Beach — the camera position of most foot-traffic webcams.
The Boardwalk along Main Beach — the camera position of most foot-traffic webcams.
Photo: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Six public feeds

Live webcam gallery

Sprint 1.3 ships the editorial shell; Sprint 2 will wire live embeds where the operators permit it. Until then, every tile links out to the operator’s own page so you’re not seeing a stale thumbnail pretending to be live.

Sunshine Coast Council

Noosa Main Beach

The flagship Noosa Heads beach cam. Look north-west to see the surf club and the flags. Useful for the morning check before the walk down Hastings Street.

Sunshine Coast Council

Coolum Beach

About 25 minutes south of Noosa Heads. Useful when the south-east is running and you want a longer-period look at the swell.

Sunshine Coast Council

Mooloolaba Beach

Mooloolaba is 40 minutes north. A different angle on the same marine district — useful if you’re deciding between the two ends of the coast.

Surf Life Saving Queensland

SLSQ patrol flags

SLSQ publishes patrol flags and webcam stills for the patrolled beaches. Use this to confirm which flags are up before you set up at the beach.

Beachsafe.org.au

Beachsafe beach pages

Beachsafe lists every patrolled beach in Australia with hazards, facilities, and the current patrol status. Noosa Main Beach and Sunshine Beach are both covered.

Bureau of Meteorology

QLD rainfall + river heights

The BOM rainfall and river-height pages are the quickest way to see whether the Noosa River is up after a heavy shower. Useful before any river crossing.