Glass House Mountains QLD

Today we packed in Australia’s biggest art and craft market, a 1 kg doughnut, an unexpected back-road adventure, a giant pineapple and a beach sunset!

First up, we headed to the Eumundi Markets where we wandered the hundreds of stalls selling everything from coffee, handmade jewellery, hot chilli sauces, t-shirts, bratwursts and the “I definitely don’t need this but I’m buying it anyway” purchases! We got them all, almost… Fortunately my sanity was saved by the old bloke selling bird whistles who could only operate in cash, which we “didn’t have” 😉

The markets were impressive, though I challenge the claim to Australia’s biggest - I’d say the Salamanca Markets in Hobart would give them a good run for money. Mind you, by the time we made it back to the car around 10:30 am, the traffic queue waiting to get in stretched for what looked like at least a kilometre. Glad we arrived early!

Next stop on our Sunshine hinterland adventure was the Kenilworth Bakery for their famous 1 kg doughnut. We (all 5 of us) devoured the custard and cream creation effortlessly. That said, we have a new respect for the current record holder who somehow demolished the entire thing solo in under two minutes 😳

From there we headed to the Glass House Mountains Lookout at the mercy of our GPS, which clearly decided adventure was in order as we quickly found ourselves on increasingly questionable back roads, culminating in what can only be described as a goat track with a gradient pushing 10%. I was very happy to engage 4WD for that one.

Ironically, some of the best views of the Glass House Mountains came from that random back road. When we finally reached the official lookout it was actually a bit underwhelming, you couldn’t even see all of the peaks! Surely they could have found a more inspiring vantage point?

A few quick photos later we moved on to the Big Pineapple, reliving a childhood memory from decades ago. We duly ticked it off the list. Suffice to say it’s still just a giant pineapple - a now a very expensive one - that definitely doesn’t need revisiting again for at least another 40 years 🍍😂

We wound our way home along the Sunshine Coast, beach hopping before returning to the caravan in time for happy hour and dinner.Read more