Noosa Blue Resort

... few weeks on the tour.

We moved on this morning and are now situated in downtown Brisvegas with Mick and Tracy (the boules have started and so has outdoor cricket - with an injury already!)

Mick and Trace are running the Chandler Lodge and Cabins at the QLD Sleeman Sports Complex and trace took us for a tour of the complex which was the home ...

... seen not one but two mothers this week who I felt desperately sorry for, one queuing in front of me in Starbucks and wrangling three children, one walking, one on her hip and one in a pushchair, whilst trying to divide one ice cream between the four of them whilst any child who didn't have it screamed; the second one seemed perfectly happy but had five children, all boys, who looked about 15, 7, 4, 2 and nine months, and all looked exactly the ****ing ...

... ferry got closer to Circular Quay the sky got darker and darker and just as we came in to dock the heavens opened up with a torrential downpour. Dodged my way from shelter to shelter and took refuge in the Osbourne... Seemed like a good idea.. Later, when it stopped, I meandered back to the b&b and did some laundry... It's not ALL fun you know! Sunday 28th December Sydney Overheard someone at breakfast talking about the fish market, so decided to go along and take a ...

... cater for the surfing crowd with plenty of hammocks and loungers on which to laze as the BBQ cooks away in the sunshine. We met up with Neesh and Kelly (our Fraser Island buddies here) and had a massive bbq and tim tams. There was 7 of us having food and for only $5 each we got a feast - just shows you can really do it cheap if you want! The next day we were picked up from the bus stop ...

... to build a dam to feed coastal development! Water and the lack of it is a big issue wherever we went. After Noosa we turned out backs on the warmer coastal temperatures, picked up a hire car and headed inland with Wayne to his family home at Kingaroy, where we met his mum and experienced a typical Returned Serviceman's Club, awash with locals enjoying themselves playing various bingo type games etc. Without subjecting you to a blow by blow account ...

... the beach. We didn't plan any tours or trips from Noosa, we just wanted to sit back and relax... and that's what we did. WE cooked a BBQ by the pool for St. Patrick's Day which was a cool way to spend it - sounds a bit different to how things were at home anyway. This morning we have just been relaxing too, and we're heading off later to Brisbane... or as they call it here 'Bris-bin'.

... carton of milk that smelled suspiciously sour and ming and had leaked onto mine and jolly's bag, bugger. We wiped it off best we could and dumped our stuff at the bus stop where catherine and mel stayed as me and jen went off to collect the hire car for the few days. We got a new corrolla, very nice and automatic which meant jen had a bit of trouble with the braking as she kept jumping on it like a clutch lol! We kangaroo'd all the way back to pick up mel ...

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These are two slithers of rock which shoot out at the most northernly point of the park, giving a great view back towards the main beach, called Alexandria Beach.

We carefully made our way out to the rocks at the end (not ...

... Americans alike, despite whatever amount of water Mother Nature should deem to dump on them.  And so I soon found myself with my aunt and uncle in a crowded tearoom, shivering inwardly and clutching a cup of green tea and a bit of jam-smeared scone.  After lazily chatting, reading up on some tourist pamphlets (Did you know mother humpbacks, which harbor near Frazer Island every year, may produce fifty liters of milk per day?), and warming up a bit, I then decided that I ...