Kenilworth, Noosa and Peregian

First stop of the day: Kenilworth.
If that sounds familiar — yes, we’d already been there on December 6. Naturally, we went back for more pies and filled doughnuts. The Kenilworth Bakery is famous for those, and judging by how packed it was in that tiny town, appropriately so.

After Kenilworth, we headed to Noosa one last time. More goodbyes, and passing on our camping equipment to a lucky (?) duck. 😄
We also spent some time in the library in Noosaville to look a few things up. I’m growing to like libraries. So quiet! 😊 That‘s where we were watched by the little black-grey birdie.

Today, we definitely wanted to go for a swim and ended up at Peregian Beach, not too far from Noosa. That‘s where we saw galah - grey and pink cockatoos! Aren‘t they pretty?

Unfortunately, I had already parted with my bodyboard. 😔
Still, swimming was fun — though “swimming” might be a generous term. With the strong current, it was more like wave survival. Spot the wave, decide how to meet it with minimal damage, repeat. 😄
Dive under it, jump over it, or just… jam into it.

You could actually walk quite far into the water — if you figured out where, timed it well, and had the strength to move forward between waves while fighting the current. Timo was pretty good at that. I, on the other hand, felt safer closer to the beach — but once we started battling the waves together, being each other’s anchor, progress was suddenly possible without being swept sideways. 😄

In the evening, we checked into our hotel near the Brisbane airport for the last two nights.

The last pic shows you what our little rental car looked like after a month on the road. It would have looked way cleaner hadn‘t we conquered all those potholes-ridden gravel roads. 😄Read more