This year there will be no fireworks this year and the club will instead donate funds to the 

Santa Claus knows his way around a sleigh – but what about a surf boat? Jolly Old Saint Nick will make an impressive entrance to the Sunshine Coast every Christmas Eve – not from the skies but from the sea. Before his mammoth flight around the world later that night – Santa drops by Mooloolaba Beach to greet the kids.

This has become somewhat of a tradition over the past few years – hundreds of people have turned out in the past to meet Santa.

Santa usually makes his grand entrance about 6pm just outside the Mooloolaba Surf Life Saving Club.