Our last full day in Queensland…
Chris enjoying the morning view
We went for an early morning stroll along the esplanade, looking for a geocache (and finding it) and enjoying the beautiful weather. It was only 6 a.m. but there were lots of people out. One of the groups we saw were volunteers who were cleaning up the beach and the parks.
Volunteer cleaning up the beach
One of our plans while here had been to drive south to some of the National Parks but the huge storm at the end of last week ended that idea as too many of the roads were still closed due to flash flood damage. We decided, instead, to drive out into the hinterland (the land away from the coast) near Caloundra. You could see the damage that the flooding had caused but all the roads seemed to be open (didn’t see any signs saying they were closed). We also found another BIG thing –
The Big wine barrel
There are some gorgeous views up there – we couldn’t stop where we could see the ocean (did I mention the speed limit on these roads? 100 km/hr on roads we would do 60 km/hr at most) because we would have had to cross the traffic. We did stop where we could see out to the mountains though.
View in the hinterlands
Once we got to Eumundi, we started south again but made a detour into a town called Yandina to stop at the Nutworks Factory – a small factory that processes macadamia nuts. Of course we couldn’t leave without buying some.
Chris is a nut
We headed back to the condo after that – time to clean up, do laundry and repack the bags. We leave for Sydney on Tuesday morning and then fly to Canada on Wednesday. This is probably the last post as I don’t imagine there will be a lot to write about while travelling to Sydney (but I could be wrong).
Thanks for reading 🙂
Pelicans at sunrise