A Bit of Bush

Yesterday we decided to have a holiday day and actually get out of Brisbane so we go in the car and headed out North on the Bruce Highway.

First stop was he Glass House Mountains. Was gagging for a pee by the time we located and arrived at the Glass House Mountains Lookout, and was greeted by the following toilet facilities:



A cupful later we took in the views.


They were apparently named by Captain Cook, and there are Aboriginal traditions and legends surrounding them, here is more information about them than you can shake a stick at.

Coonowrin was an ancient prince who ran scared of a storm leaving his mother to die, strangely the most ignominious character has the most impressive craggy peak named after him.

We walked down into the rainforest on a short circular walk which needless to say took much longer than it might have done since Eloise needed to negotiate all he steps personally.

After the Glass House Mtns we drove across to the Sunshine Coast... through the rain... and stopped off at a little beach at Caloundra where we played on the swings and slides and saw our first little beach.

We then drive up the coast a little bit to King's Beach where we ate Fish and Chips and were molested by the obligatory tourist-savvy seagulls. Suitably gorged we drove up to a spit at Warana and walked down to the beach there which was quite beautiful. Eloise had her first taste of surprise surf on the shoes which she wasn't really all that happy about, but she definitely enjoyed the sand, and being a plane fan was agog when a parascender came in to land right over our heads on he cliff above.

So we sat on the beach and thought well, compare this to Felixstowe or Aldeburgh, with the sun shining, the surf breaking over perfect white sand... and we live an hours drive away.

All that lot took most of the day, so then back home where after a walk to the Matilda (yess really) garage to pick up some milk we were in bed as usual by about 8 o'clock, totally knackered.

Pathetic.

Today, woke up at five again, but Eloise slept right through in her cot-tent-thing for the second or third night. It has rained pretty much all day though we went ou and bought some toys for the munchkin and did some grocery shopping at Wooly's.