Friday, June 13, 2008

Week 5 - Maroochydore

We spent the week at Maroochydore and checked out the surrounding areas and activities. Spent a day in Noosa - was fun to drive around the canal housing (gorgeous houses all new or a few years old), beach at Noosa Heads was pretty good, although a bit rocky and the Nature Walk nice too although couldn't go too far becauses of the kids limits! We had lunch by some rock pools and saw heaps of BIG crabs. And a big spider (although these are everywhere...)



Also went to Underwater World at Mooloolaba, we all enjoyed that, particularly the seal show, the sharks and nemo (see Ruben and Ash's page for their favourite photos).

We went on a canal boat cruise around Mooloolaba River which we enjoyed although the boys didn't so much - we kept filling them with food to get them through the hour trip, one part they did enjoy was the pelican feeding. We enjoyed the stories about the various houses along the canal including Steve Irwin's - which was bought because they needed somewhere to house the boat (the infamous Croc One).

Rob got his boat licence (had to do a day course) and we finally got the dinghy out on the water. We went for a trot up the Maroochy River to Bli Bli and back down again.




Photo of our campground from the boat.



The stranded boat (see last weeks post) makes a run for it at high tide - they made it easily this time. Pleased they made it, because the whole campground came out to watch!

We're off to Rainbow Beach for a couple of days on Friday, and then to Fraser Island for a week.

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