M1 Resort Maroochydore

... to the beach, various types of palms which I find fascinating and will upload some photos. It was <br>hot and a cloudless blue sky, something I think I shall miss when I get to New Zealand!! From Noosa we drove down the coast and stopped at Coolum Beach for a walk along the boardwalk stopping for the most delicious ice creams along the way. <br><br>My next blog will be about my trip to Cairns and visiting the Great Barrier Reef etc ...... talk to you then!

... and in the waterways surrounding Noosa. All the best houses are, of course, at waters edge where they can moor their boats. We spent an amazing day boating around the area, stopping off at various sandbanks for a bit of sunbathing and alot of time coveting other peoples' houses in the area. I managed to fry myself during the day too, which is nice. New Year's Eve was a blast. Just the four of us cavorting around dressed up to the nines in the ...

... the good old days and Marc got bored. We had a lovely BBQ there. Marc's sis Treen and Brooke dropped in for lunch on their way to a wedding. Alexandra Headlands Surf club just down the road, good for food and drinks. The last night saw a massive electrical storm but luckily the hail just missed us and we survived to leave the next day.

... fører os de sidste ca. 15 km. frem til Australia Zoo. Vejen er opkaldt efter den nu afdøde Krokodillejæger Steve Irwin, og er en lige men ganske smuk vejstrækning. På vejen passerer vi nogle meget spændende og usædvanelige bjergformationer, bl. a. Mt. Tibbrugargan. Ved middagstid er vi fremme ved Australia Zoo, den zoologiske have Steve Irwin var primus motor for. Haven er et familieforetagende grundlagt af Steve Irwins forældre i 1970 og siden udvidet i og ...

... coves, it was incredible! Even the sudden torretial downpour on my walk home couldn't faze me. Now I've heard about all the Calgarians that are supposedly traveling around Australia but I had yet to meet any of them. In Central America I met mostly Americans and Israelis but here I've met mostly British, German and surprisingly South Korean tourists. Then, as luck would have it, on this tiny island in this little hostel I met 3 separate other ...

... get active. We went down to the river and hired some kayaks. It was refreshing to do some exercise but getting back to the hire place seemed to take forever and we were all exhausted. The highlight was paddling past three magnificent pelicans perched nonchalantly on top of a warning sign. The main reason for staying in Noosa was to go to Steve Irwin's Australian Zoo. In fact it was the ...

... who we had met at the turtle beach in Bundaberg was also there, so we all headed to the beach and spent the afternoon diving through the waves.....lovely way to spend a birthday!! As another treat, we all got fish and chips and sat eating them out the paperon a bench looking out over the lake/sea inlet just by the hostel! Good way to spend a birthday!!

... the shore and heading out along a rip, an area between breakers that will take you asea without being dashed by huge breakers.  From Neil's instruction and from watching other body surfers I quickly learned how I should ideally start kicking and catch a wave right as it was stacking up and then head laterally along the channel away from the breaking water.  In attempting this, I fought my way out to the back, where the big waves start to form and then waited ...

... qualities. We head to Rainbow beach, just off Frazer Island, tomorrow via Noosa. Noosa is where we hope to get the wee gadget that enables you to get internet to the laptop. We spent just under a weekk in Brisbane, staying with Shane and his girlfriend Rowina. We stayed longer then anticipated becaause we needed some post sent up from Melbourne from ...

My sister Sarah came to visit for a whole week! On our first day, I drove Alejandro (the large white van who can actually reach freeway speeds but sadly has no radio) down to pick her up from the ...