Brisbane

Thursday was our last day at Bargara and of course it was superb weather, certainly did not want to be leaving the next day.  As it was our last day we thought we should go into Bundaburg and visit the Botanical Gardens, we had a very enjoyable walk around the boardwalk wetlands where we saw many turtles, ducks, geese and bird life. The Japanese Gardens were very picturesque and there were many turtles in the lake and some were certainly enjoying sunny themselves on the rocks.

We also made sure to pick up another 1kg of Strawberries to take with us the next day.

Once again that afternoon our friends Pauline and Les caught up with us , so after catching up with all the news since we had last seen each other we went to the local bowls club for an enjoyable meal.

Friday we said goodbye to Bargara and our friends and headed south stopping at Childers for a walk up the main street, and popping into the Bakery for a vanilla slice to share with Bazza. I am sure he would have preferred one all to himself. We stopped just north of Gympie to have lunch and decided that we would continue further south and head to Maleny that is up in the hinterlands inland from the Sunshine Coast. We were a bit surprised at the slow steady climb up the Brown Mountain Range which had amazing views over the Glass House Mountains and out to the coast. We pulled into the showgrounds that offers overnight camping to find that the following day there was going to be a food festival to be held there and we would need to be out by 8am. Surprise surprise Bazza had me up early and we were heading out the gate by 7.05am ! We headed back down the range and out to the coast to have breakfast at Caloundra before heading down to Brisbane.

We were at the Aspley Caravan Park by 9.20 and spent a nice quiet morning settling in,  then after lunch we went to visit our friends Sue and Tony that live only 5mins away from the park. We had given them instructions that we wanted to go the Thai Restaurant that night  that is near their home. We had been there previously and have always enjoy the food, we were not disappointed once again it was lush !

This morning Sue & Tony popped in for morning tea and then we all went back to their place for a lovely lamb roast and of course more bubbles and beer.