After breakfast this morning we piled into Louises car and she drove us to Toowoomba which is about an hour west of here. It is a town high up on the Great Divide Mountains. We stopped first at a lookout point called picnic point wher you could see for miles looking east towards Brisbane. There was also this signboard just to remind me of how far away it is to home and the long flights ahead. After a coffee we went into Queens Park which was a riot of colour wit...

So that’s it for the Sunshine Coast and as we left the skies were black so actually no loss Our drive took us through rolling countryside with huge fields, and we arrived in Kensington Grove and Louises at midday. Sad to say goodbye to Bill and Sue after a fantastic three weeks, but hope to see them again in the not to distant future. We met Reggie the dog and Elliot who is just adorable. A real smiley baby. Had the afternoon relaxing in their huge garden t...

I think today is the first time we have stopped since leaving the UK. We actually managed to get to church as it was the first time we were not travelling on a Sunday. The church was very modern with double windows open along both sides, as the service progressed the wind got very strong and just at the end of the sermon they all blew shut like a load of dominoes going. Quite a dramatic end to a sermon!! We went down to the beachfront where once again the waves...

Today we went north of the beach we were on yesterday and did another beach walk. In fact we completed the Bay and walked to where we had started yesterday. The tide was in and again the waves spectacular. The TV news was in the area recording for the news which we saw on our return. Lots of people about stood on the coast with cameras of every size all waiting for ‘the picture’ while in the water the brave or foolish, I’m not sure which, surfers were putt...

Well there is a cyclone off the coast and the winds it’s blowing in are incredibly strong and consequently the waves are huge. After an unusually lazy morning for us we head north to a town on the coast called Mooloolaba. As soon as we got out of the car you could hear the roar of the waves. Again the beach was closed with the red flags up. However this didn’t seem to stop the numerous surfers who had braved the huge waves. For me it was quite frightening t...