Blogs from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Saturdaywas a beautiful sunny day in Mooloolaba and a good day for doing a load of washing. Once this was done, we heard from our friend Michelle that she was coming up from Brisbane for a visit, and she arrived around 11. Took the opportunity of her car to do a shopping run to Coles and take in some of the sights of Mooloolaba and Marochydore along the way. Lunch at the Surf club with views over the bay and the Dragon boat races, a couple of drinks, stroll along the beach and some exorbitantly priced yoghurt made for a relaxing afternoon. Michelle headed home and we went for our last hot showers for a while, and made the boat ready for our big day tomorrow. Thanks for coming down Michelle, lovely to see you. Its ... read more

Have you ever thought about Skydiving out of a perfectly good plane but was not sure you would be able to? Our son only Birthday wish was to go jumping out of a plane! So after ringing around, and looking for the best company that could provide the experience of a lifetime, our son was able to have his dream come true! Skydiving Ramblers Coolum The company that offers the best adventure of a lifetime is Skydiving Ramblers. They have friendly staff, good email service, a friendly club house, and the nicest (funniest) instructors that soon put your mind at ease. You are able to choose different heights to jump from, and different packages to be able to remember your experience. If you are want adventure, and want to over come any fears, then jumping from ... read more

Just a short note to catch up and say hi, because you have followed our journey for 2 years this month since we left melbourne. Now we are on the Sunshine Coast and have decided to stay a while and see if we can make it home. It has been over 9 months since we stopped here and fair to say some good stuff and some not so good but hey, that goes with everywhere. more good than bad of course otherwise why else would we be here? Anyway, here are a few pics to show you how we are getting on, we have bought a house, move in in 5 weeks, feel free to come visit. We have had visitors already this year and it makes it easier spending time with family and friends, others ... read more

Wednesday 14 July 2010 Last Sunday morning we left Camooweal, the first township you reach having crossed into Queensland from the Northern Territories, and journeyed across Queensland travelling down through Mt Isa, Cloncurry and then turning south onto the Landsborough Highway from the Flinders Highway, to cover another few hundred miles that brought us to the next camping site at a place called Barcaldine. Our journey was pretty uneventful although we did have for the first time on our travels, kangaroos jumping across the road in front of us but I am pleased to report that we have no ‘road kills’ to our credit! Our journey on Sunday brought us through major coal producing areas and one felt very much in the outback in this part of Queensland. Barcaldine turned out to have one of the ... read more

We got up at 05:30 and Sophie went out for a ride and to do computrainer. I phoned Chris and talked to him for a little while while Dad and Richard were getting the fishing gear ready. We then all got dressed and headed out for Bribie Island and Pumistone Passage. We grabbed some brekkie en-route and as it kept raining, we looked round loads and loads of shops until we finally found a little newsagents that sold ponchos. We bought three ponchos (and managed to get a discount as they had been there so long) and were then ready to go and get on the boat and start the fishing. We got to the marina and sorted out the boat hire with Robyn. We got everything we needed in the boat and headed out of ... read more