Noosa North

Jamie drove in early on Wednesday to help move us all from Maroochydore back to a different site at Noosa. This is to be our last site in Queensland on this trip. The site is at Tewantin on the river near the Noosa Marina. Jamie returned to Brisbane in the afternoon for another couple of peaceful days at work. We looked after the girls again for two days, taking them to enjoy the great surf at Noosa Main Beach and to enjoy the ice creams at 72 Flavours on the Gympie Terrace.
On Thursday we drove to the Tewantin mountain viewing platform, which after a short upward walk from a car park gave us great views across the region and towards Noosa Heads. After that we had a look at the Botanical Garden at Lake McKenzie, all very pretty.
In the aftenoon under blue and grey skies we took the SUP to Gympie Terrace so the girls could launch into the river. Great comedy moments for all but grandad who was left holding the SUP on two occasions during the inflation process. On both occasions the heavens opened, the girls legged it to the car, giggling away as grand dad took a soaking. Credit to Sophie though as she toughed it out with grand dad on the second go. The three girls and granny enjoyed the experience. Karen managed to stand up for a few seconds but did not have the confidence to take the paddle. We stopped off at a couple of Op shops afterwards and the girls found some absolute bargains.
Friday morning we spent on the campsite mainly by the swimming pool. At lunchtime a lady arrived with a variety of small animals to show and talk about. We all enjoyed touching and at times holding snakes, a 4 year old crocodile, bearded lizard and a barn owl. Summer was the first in the queue to hold each creature and did so without a qualm. We returned to our favourite beach in Noosa in the afternoon, and all except Summer enjoyed bracing the huge waves as they reached the shore. A bit ferocious for Summer, but she enjoyed looking for shells on the beach.
On the way home we picked up the ingredients to make pizzas in the site pizza oven. They were very tasty.
Jamie and Renne joined us in the evening after their working week, and quickly set up their swag and gazebo to see them through to Tuesday.
On Friday we all drove into Noosa, in separate cars. Parking was difficult but we managed eventually to park near Hastings Street. We wandered along Hastings Street and through the parks and woods to the spit at the head of the river. The river side beaches were very calm. The estuary opening onto the sea looked ferocious. Back in town we found Jamie and family on the main beach, so we settled down together to enjoy the waves in sunshine. In the evening the heavens opened once again as we prepared our evening meal in the camp kitchen. It rained all evening and most of the night, great thunderstorms crashing through. We all stayed dry playing card games in the trailer.
Sunday's weather promised sunshine, with two days of rain to follow, so we decided to strike camp when we could get everything packed away dry and return to Brisbane.
We waited until the sunshine had dried out all our canvas before shutting down the trailer for this trip and returned to Brisbane mid afternoon.Weiterlesen