Spent quite a bit of time looking through Ikea and ended up buying some storage bins for George. Now everything is stashed away nice and tidy. Next stop Wild Horse Mountain - didnt see any of those but at 123m above sea level we had an amazing view of the surrounding country. The climb was of course all uphill - a whole dammed 700m of it and as the picture indicate I was hot and sticky at the top (honey how come you got to take photos of me looking gross).
Next stop Colundra, where we visited Kings beach and a shower and a look around. Fish and chips on the beach for tea before going to find somewhere to sleep for the night.
Next day we started by having a swim in the salt pool by the sea (Tony reckons 20 laps but I think not!!!!) headed off sightseeing, first stop the Hinterlands and Mary Cairncross Park, with awesome views of the Glass house Mountains - a bit foggy though but still pretty amazing. Poor george there were some pretty steep ups and downs for him to travel on 10 and 12% gradients!!!!
Went for a walk through the rainforest which was really awesome, saw a pademelon, which is kinda like a wallaby and lots of huge and amazing trees.
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| Wonga Vine |
Cooked up some kangabangas for tea a bit later on, courtesy of the free bbq's and as the name suggests yes they were kangaroo sausages - quite yummy despite the initial caution about eating kangaroo, and very healthy 98% fat free.
Left the park and stopped to see Baron Pocket Dam and Lake - quite an impressive dam if i must say so myself
After leaving the dam we drove up to Kondalilla Falls, got there a bit late to go walking, still getting used to the fact that it is dark at 5.30 - we seem to be loosing lots of daytime. Spent the night in the car park and got an early walking start the next day -6.20am. Took us two and half hours to do the 4.6km circuit walk - saw once agin some amazingly huge trees and a small black snake on the track (Tony says it was a red belly black but I sure wasnt going to get close enough to check it out).
Got back to the carpark and there was George waiting patienty for us - still with no friends - I think everyone sleeps late in Australia. Loaded up and headed off to Mapelton Falls where we saw a huge gorge from the lookout platform - really hard to take photos which did it justice so you will just have to google it and see pro photos. had breakfast in the car park - our first official on the road breakfast!!
After breakfast we stopped at Montville - a quaint, very pretty, clean arty little town.
Hit the road again and took a wee diversion to the famous Ettamogah Pub and had fries for lunch. A very cool pub with wall that lean outwards.
Next stop Mooloolaba a beach town, quite nice, quite commercial.
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