Blogs from Noosa, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 9

We are still enjoying our travels south with Linda and Denis. After Sapphire, we headed south and found lots of rivers in flood after all the rain. Some roads were closed, mainly side roads. We came accross a few places with water accross the road, especially around Rollerston. We ended up staying a night at Banana. From there we continued on to a favourite place of ours, Cania Gorge. We had a very large site, complete with our own fireplace. The many different birds were as friendly as ever, and we also had visits from kangaroos, buttons and possums at night while we were sitting around our fire. We did some walks, swam in the 3 pools, and enjoyed the wine tasting and wood fired pizza night. The second night there I cooked probably my last ... read more

We had a great time at Agnes Waters and then made for Burrum Heads. Unfortunately our weekend there consisted of grey days and strong wind, building up to rain on Sunday afternoon. We did get in a bit of walking along the riverfront and around the little shops there, but mostly it was spent inside the motor home, out of the weather. We decided against going on to Hervey Bay when Monday morning brought more showers, so we rang Tewantin - we were able to bring our 3 day booking forward to begin that night. It was the right call, as we hadn't gone all that many kilometres when the sky cleared and the sun shone. We turned off the highway to explore some more of the Mary Valley, shopped at Kenilworth and then drove up ... read more

We made it to the Eumundi markets, after crossing, the breath-holding Gateway Bridge (wild traffic) and dodging the madness that you strike driving from the Gold Coast to Brisbane and then towards the Sunshine Coast. We love the markets though I've pretty well bought everything I'm interested in over the years so now just look. Doug bought some strawberries and a great macadamia cracker and has been demonstrating it endlessly. Remember when macadamias were called Queensland bush nuts? Uncle Alf had a tree on his banana plantation and Doug’s parents had one in their yard so we’ve spent a lot of time picking them off the tree and the ground and cracking them over the years, not to mention eating them! We weren't able to get into Tewantin Saturday night so instead spend it at a ... read more

Surfing and sunbathing in a town called Noosa at the moment. Only 3 weeks until New Zealand, where its snowing, so I'm making the most of the sunshine! Visited a town called 1770 and did a special motorbike tour. Was given leathers and a big chopper motorbike and got to ride round the town tearing it up for a few hours. Got up to maximum speed on a dual carriage way, well 85kmph as the bikes had been modified for safety, wimps. Spent a few days on Frasier Island, the largest sand island in the world. Even with a 4x4 truck the roads and sand dunes are a bit of a challenge, sturdy bra's were a must! We were driving along the beach one day when Captain Colin and his light aircraft touched down next to ... read more

Day 22 We are locked and loaded… the truck is packed, well more like over stuffed, we cratered and bought a roof rack as we have no room inside with 5 people plus all camping gear… I really want to know how mom and dad did it when we were kids… lol. The poor truck sags pretty hard in the back and doesn’t exactly want to hold any high speeds on hill climbs… dropping from 100 to about 75 on a good climb, of course were not flooring it as we are trying to save fuel but I’m sure that little 3 litre is ready to tell me to “F” off… We had a short drive today of only 2.5 hours to get to Noosa where I had booked a camp for us. It sounded off ... read more