French toast and bacon to start the day (for those who doubted I needed so much bacon!). Off to the Eumundi Markets, kids very eager to rid themselves of their money. Xander bought a "USA Submarine" watch and spent the rest of the day telling us the time, a couple of bead bracelets and a print of a vintage car. Leggie splurged on her first "real" artwork and some jewelry. A couple of dresses and a necklace for me, Marcus was very restrained only buying a belt. Th...

Washing day today - it's amazing how many dirty clothes you can create in four days. Marcus's brother and family arrived in Noosa today for their holiday, so they came straight from the airport to check out our digs before checking in to their own accomodation. National park walk was well received by all, including sightings of dolphins, whales and a turtle (and the ever present busĺh turkeys). A spot of fishing this afternoon where we seemed to feed the ent...

A really boring, lazy day today, which is what we all needed after 3 days of driving. Fry up for breakfast as promised, kids decided a swim was necessary even though the water was quite cold - I guess that's just typical kid operation. They've already done the usual caravan park thing of making new lifelong friends. Quick supermarket stock up of fruit and veg (and chocolate biscuits), BBQ lunch and then back out to Hastings street. Sunglasses for Allegra, a coupl...

Beautiful drive today...Yes, you can fly here in two hours - but driving you see our amazing country. Rivers big and small, birds, wombats and echidnas, vintage cars, old country town pubs, banana farms and sugar cane fields, bridges, alpacas and old train carriages. We left Coffs at 8:30, kids were somewhat confused about the Big Banana. Apart from a quick loo stop and a chicken roll for lunch, a fairly non-stop drive to Noosa, arriving at about 3pm. A bit of a ...

Rolled out of Yass at the more civilised time of 8:30. Beautiful drive for the first few hours until we hit 1) Sydney traffic, and 2) Pacific Hwy roadworks, which persisted on and off right up to Coffs. Lunch was uneventful...Subway somewhere, so uneventful I don't even know where it was! Arrived just after 6pm, staying at the Royal Palms tonight - basic, clean and cheap, which is hopefully how I'll also be able to describe the pub meal we're about to go out f...