Early Moffat Head, ca 1900 courtesy Sunshine Coast Libraries

1882    James C Moffat acquires the deed to 20 acres on Portion 13 on 18 August.

1883    First public land sales in Caloundra take place on 9 April. Some of the purchasers at that sale were Edmund Lander, James Campbell, G. Campbell, John D. Campbell, A. McCallum, Captain J. Swain, Robert Cribb and others. Very few of these blocks were built on by these original owners. James C. Moffat, a chemist from Brisbane established a cottage on the headland which now bears his name – Moffat Headland.
Caloundra Timeline by Amanda Wilson courtesy Sunshine Coast Libraries

Indigenous

Point Cartwright, Moffat Head and Wickham Point had a number of recorded pecked engravings on the shore platforms in the early 1930s, including emu, kangaroo and numerous dingo footprints, along with those of some small birds and a human footprint

Over the years the natural course of erosion by sea wave action and sun drying caused the engraved sandstone to flake away, eliminating all trace of these relics.

These headlands were once dreaming areas and very sacred to the Undumbi people

information courtesy Caloundra City Libraries

c1900 from Moffat Headland showing the cliffs and foreshore with the SS Dicky in the background, courtesy Dave Slawson, Illidge family