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I just love this arty farty photo but no relevance whatsoever! |
17th November and we head straight up the highway to Minyana which is approx 200kms north near Maroochydore, where our friend Kay lives. What a rat race the Sunshine Coast is now. It’s just an extension of Surfers Paradise. So we had a quick look around, a lovely meal with Kay and her family and took off the next day
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How hectic
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.We came across a little gem, much more our style called Boreen Point. We booked in for 3 nights. It’s a cheap caravan park, right on Lake Coothagaba and surrounded by bushland. It has a great village community atmosphere and a beaut pub built in the late 1800s. The pub was dismantled and moved from Gympie to Boreen Point 18 years ago.
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What a great pub. |
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Looking over Noosa ( just before it rained) |
The weather has turned nasty but that hasn’t stopped us, we still rode into Noosa went for a great walk and rode up to the lookout without getting wet. On Saturday we braved the rain and drove out to the Eumundi markets which would be the best and biggest markets I have ever seen. There are some amazing artworks there. Must bring a truck and heaps of dough next time!
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Rainbow Beach
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Rainbow Beach is our next stop for 3 nights in the C’van Park right on the beach and in the centre of town. The weather is still shitty but enough breaks for us to check out Tin Can Bay and Inskip Point. Inskip Point is only 10ks from Rainbow and looks fantastic.
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Inskip Point |
Next day we went up to Carlo Sand Blow. Pretty impressive , it’s an extremely large sand hill moving and growing due to the wind. The weather is improving but still very windy.
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To give you an idea of the size of the sand dune that little blue speck halfway down on the LH side is a person walking across the Sand Blow!!!
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At low tide we went for a ride along the beach for about 15-20ks, straight after a 10minute down pour. This was in our favour as the rain made the coloured sands more vibrant. The sand is layered in every colour from white to bright yellow, dark orange and even pink. Awesome! We are having sooo much fun.
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Smally hooning!!!!
On Tuesday we headed over to Frazer Island on a bus tour. It's the biggest sand island in the world. It's amazing with sub-tropical rainforest growing over the sand hills in the interior plus beautiful Lake MacKenzie which is a crystal clear fresh water lake surrounded by white sand. There's even a ship wreck right up on the beach. |
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I've never seen so many fantastic stag horns. |
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The ship wreck |
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SS loves my pinnacles! |
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Check out how clear the water is. |
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The water is so clear you can't tell the photo is of a stream. |
We move camp to Inskip Point, which is where the barge leaves from for Frazer Island for our last 3 nights before heading west. It's a fantastic bush camp ( only $10 a night) There's the sea 50m one way from our van and an inlet 50m the other way. Heaps of people fishing but no-one catching. No worries it's still fun trying. The weather is now perfect and we spent all afternoon on the beach.
We went on a 6km walk to a lake that should have only been 4 kms and the lake itself wasn't worth the effort but the walk itself was great we saw a goanna and beautiful rainforest.
On Friday we got up early and rode over to Tin Can Bay to see the dolphins which come in every morning at 8am to be fed. How great is that so there's no need to go all the way to Monkey Mia. They come right into the bay and stay for about half an hour.
We bought some fresh prawns, bugs and fish for lunch and dinner as tomorrow we head west so this is our last chance for yummy seafood.
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