Waves, wildlife, and walks 🏄‍♂️

We spent a day at Agnes Water, the most northerly point up the east coast where it's possible to surf as the coastline isn't sheltered by the Great Barrier Reef. Matt was eager to get back in the sea with the surf board, whereas I was less so. We've managed to hit this very popular coastline at the same time as the Easter holidays so places are extremely busy, but we can't change our plans now as we're just heading back down to Sydney. We had a great beach day nonetheless, Matt managing to get stood up on the board plenty of times. 

Next we were on to Noosa, we arrived in the afternoon with enough time for a walk around the headland and to watch many surfers with a lot of skill tackle the huge waves. When we were mid-walk however the heavens opened and for once we were not very prepared so got completely soaked through to the bone. This is not good when you're living out of a small van, the rain continued into the evening which meant it was a pretty miserable night in a car park in the town. We woke up to better weather so got to spend the morning on the beach before heading to a campsite for the next night so we could give everything a good wash and get things dried out properly. 

Next day we continued down the coast stopping at Cotton Tree Beach for stroll, then down to Mooloolaba beach. We spent a while in the sea diving under the crashing waves then enjoyed soaking up the sun on the sand. We spent the evening at a place called Currimundi, where we were spending the night, watching sun set before bed. We woke to glorious blue skies so sat by the water eating breakfast and managed to spot two Ospreys grab their own breakfast from the water.

We were glad of the sunshine as we were off to Australia Zoo. I've never been too bothered about Zoo's but Matts said the whole time we've been here that he wanted to go to Australia Zoo so off we went. It's the zoo opened in 1970 by Steve Erwin from Crocodile Hunter fame, I basically learnt all this on the day, but Steve Erwin is a big deal in these parts. The zoo is now ran by the rest of his family and you can spend half an hour in the middle of the day watching the Erwin family feed crocodiles big bits of meat. Its all a bit crazy really but the zoo is well known as doing great things for Australian wildlife and being an ambassador for animals worldwide, plus you can stroke Kangaroos which I wouldn't usually want to do but you can see them really enjoying a good scratch behind the ear. 

After deciding we'd done enough sitting on beaches for a while we then headed into the Glasshouse Mountains. We started with a short but steep walk up the the summit of Mount Beerburrum then continued on the Yul-yan-man trail which was a bit scrambly in places but is what we needed to stretch the legs and to get to some majestic view points.

After a good day's walk we headed back to the coast to a Park4Night (app of where you can find places to park and sleep for free) we'd found which was just a carpark but had showers and toliets and was well used by campervans. However, we arrived to find a funfair set up in the carpark and the showers surrounded by food stalls, not ideal. Turns out the Bluewater festival was in full swing, which quashed our shower plans but we did get to watch a pretty decent Abba, then Fleetwood Mac tribute band with a few drinks from the van, then watched a firework display over the ocean. Luckily there was another Park4Night down the road and by the time we fell into bed that night we were pretty shattered. 

I'm a bit behind on blogging but this is getting long so I'll leave it here. The next stop is Brisbane! Where we were on the search for a much needed shower! 

Lots of love, 

Lisa and Matt 💕