And up the coast we continued! At this point the weather wasn't really that great since it was both windy and rainy, so we drove past the Gold Coast quite fast, just stopping to have a quick swim at the beach when the sun happened to be out. Instead we headed inlands again to the Tamborine Mountains. Here we stopped at Fortitude Brewery for some craft beer and Witches Falls winery for another go at Autralian wines. In this area there were also quite a few small but pretty waterfalls and some walking tracks through the forests.
Brisbane would have been our next stop, but since we didn't really find that much interesting to do in the city and it didn't seem campervan friendly at all, we ended up just driving through it and up to the Glasshouse Mountains instead. Here we had intended to do some trekking but since Malin was sick (again) we mostly hung out by our car. And we were not the only ones:
After spending some time inlands we kind of missed the ocean again. Noosa was a little town with a lot of trendy shops and restaurats and a very popular beach.
We spent the night outside Noosa close to a farm. Here we played some minigolf, which was a lot of fun. Especially since Malin got a hole-in-one on her first time playing.
Fraser Island is a big island of sand just next to the coast, north of Noosa. Trips there were unfortunately way over our budget so instead we headed to Carlo Sand Blow - sand dunes and kind of a wannabe Fraser island. And we actually liked it very much! It was big, filled with soft sand and nice views over the ocean. Another interesting thing here was the line of at least a hundred caterpillars of back-shelter moth (or processionary caterpillars) crossing the path to the dunes. We guess they wanted to look big to avoid being eaten by birds.
Okay, so enough nature now. Let's go and taste some Australian rum! Bundaberg is the biggest rum distillery in Australia and we joined a very interesting tour around their premises.
The taste of rum was apparantly so intoxicating that it made us forget to take pictures of our next few destinations, though. We followed the coast up stopping mainly to swim and eat at the town of 1770, Rockhampton, Sarina and Mackay. Or then maybe it was just because we were so excited about our next destination: the Eungella National Park. And why were we so excited? Because there you can see platypus in the wild! Platypus is like the weirdest yet funniest animal on earth. A mix of nearly everything. And there they were just casually swimming around in the Broken River!
In Eungella we also made a long 16km trek in the beautiful subtropical rainforest following the river, during which we saw a lot of birds, a few turtles, some more platypus and even a HUGE wild boar. Back at our campsite we were accompanied by the very common australian bush turkey.
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