Everyone was awake by 7 am. It was another beautiful day so we had our last coffee watching the ocean then began to pack up the van. We were on the road by 830 am and took the trip very slowly as Noosa was only two hours away. We found the caravan park easily which is just north of Noosa in Tewantin. There is a playground here and a swimming pool so the kids are happy. They shot off to play in the playground while we set up and they soon met a couple of ot...

Every night when the two boys go to bed they spend at least 15 minutes wrestling each other, despite multiple warnings and threats. They then get too hot, climb out of their sleeping bags and strip off their pj's before finally falling asleep. This would all be bearable if they didn't wake up in the middle of the night freezing cold! Neither of them have the sence to climb back into their sleeping bags when they wake up. Instead they moan and wail until I w...

We woke up to a beautiful sunny day and sat outside and had coffee looking at the ocean. As everyone was awake we decided to go for a long walk down the beach before breakfast and walked as far as the river inlet where there was a mass of enormous bats hanging in the trees lining the river. By the time we got home the wind had picked up and it was quite chilly. The kids didn't care though, so after breakfast we hit the beach for the morning. I didn't last t...

We were all woken at the crack of dawn by the huge road trains roaring past us on the highway. At 7 am we started the generator for a coffee knowing it couldn't upset our neighbours as the noise from the road trains was far worse! We all skipped breakfast, packed up the van and hit the road driving straight to the bakery in Gin Gin where we bought some delicious cinnamon scrolls to munch on the road. We took the drive across to Hervey Bay slowly as it was un...

The fruit pickers woke us up at 530 am as they headed off to work. We tried to go back to sleep but it was too tempting to get an early start and so got up and had coffee. We were all packed up and on our way by 730 am. Lyn waved us off, as did the dogs, and the drive to Mackay was the quietest and calmest drive of the day. We found a service station south of Mackay that made great cheap toast for breakfast for the kids and stopped there for half an hour tr...