A crystal clear blue lake where the fish are jumping is not going to go unnoticed for long, and so it was that the first holiday shacks went up around Lake Currimundi where it flows into the sea, in the late 1950s.
Then along came the late Roy Henzell Snr, head of the family that is the coast’s only early land developer still on the scene. He started making residential allotments in the mid-‘60s. Many original homes still stand in the enclave on the eastern side of the Nicklin Way.
During its development in the 1970s and ‘80s, it wasn’t uncommon for bulldozers to unearth unexploded ordinance or a for a hand grenade or shell to turn up in new gardens, a legacy of the area’s role in the Brisbane Line during World War Two.
On the southern side of Currimundi Creek, Currimundi is between Caloundra and Kawana. As its popularity has spread, so has the suburb and it now extends to the western side of the Nicklin Way to meet with Meridan Plains. Progress first spread south in the ‘80s and has moved north and then west since the ‘90s
Aroona on the western side of the Nicklin Way and Battery Hill on the eastern, were also subsequently developed by the Henzell family and are part of the Currimundi statistical district of 819ha. Population density at the 2006 census was 17.15 per hectare. The area officially includes Dicky Beach, although popular perception sees Dicky as Caloundra’s most northern beach.
Summing up: Currimundi and environs including Aroona and Battery Hill, is an extensive residential area providing homes for more than 6000 families between Kawana and Caloundra. It has two primary schools and is close to two high schools and four private schools. As well as local shops and commercial areas, there is the Currimundi Markets shopping centre which includes a major supermarket and other basic retailers.
