Today we woke feeling really refreshed, after a night of comfortable beds and excellent climate control. As we got up we noticed this guy chilling out on our cutlery. We relocated him outside to the lawn.
A bug between a spoon and a knife
Being a Sunday, there was a little local market a 5 minute walk away, so we decided to head on down for breakfast. It was really lovely and we found these awesome little reusable vegetable bags (a little like fly-screens) which we decided to buy, because we could dedicate one of them to collecting rubbish on our walks and on beaches. The problem thus far had been that we end up carrying around a bunch of sand with the rubbish and we hoped that this would solve that problem.
We decided on some more smoothies and pancakes for breakfast, which were awesome.
Todays plan was a day of walking before an evening on a boat, so we headed over to the famous Alexandria bay. Parking was theoretically going to be a nightmare, but we got lucky and a car left the carpark right at the entrance as we arrived.
Full of energy we set off…
… and were quickly rewarded with our first Koala of the trip, chilling out and watching the beach from his tree-top.
Chill-Bill
We kept walking and soon got to boiling point lookout, where we got a real postcard photo opportunity.
About 15 minutes later we got to Dolphin point lookout, where we spotted this guy:
Spot the creature
Can’t spot him? Hint: He’s on the 4th “railing” stone on the left. We nearly missed him too, and HEAPS of tourists walked past him before Manja and I took photos. Sorry little dude! … Although you did go ahead and pose for everyone…
The view wasn’t bad either! We randomly had some WWII planes fly overhead. In the image you can see their shadow on the water as they turned around in the distance.
Heading down to a beach I spotted something scuttle across the sand. We had been seeing these guys the last few days, and I finally had the patience to try and capture one!
We wanted to do the full walk, but as we got to about 3/4 of the way there was suddenly a fence which precluded us from continuing along the coastline, forcing us to do a pretty tough inland hike straight up the hill instead. Making the best of the sudden change of direction and pitch, we found this awesome little spider!
(It was smaller than a 5c piece, took a while to get it so crisp!)
On the other side, though, we were rewarded with a pretty nice beach to cool off on.
Aaaaaand then we had to walk all the way back. We decided to take the inland path which was a bit harder, but also a whole lot more direct. And it was walking through some awesome rainforest like this, and even got to see a nice butterfly on the way.
As we were chatting away, I suddenly jumped and pulled Manja backward, which made her jump. All because this guy was crossing the path! Totally safe, but my instincts didn’t know he was friendly 😉
You can see how the path transitioned from sand to rainforest and back again on these photos too 🙂
We got back to the car completely exhausted and sweated through, so we headed back to the Airbnb for a short cleanup and break before heading over to the Noosa river dinner cruise which was absolutely awesome. I can NOT recommend this one highly enough. They were even kind enough to offer Manja an alternative to the seafood last minute. Its pretty amazing what the chef was able to conjure up in such a small space, and the sunset was just perfect.
We got back to the Airbnb exhausted but happy, which seems to be how most nights on this trip concluded!
Awesome pictures🤗 i liked chill bill, the nice red spider and the lizard, too 🤗 love your posts 🤗
Thank you! We are trying to catch up!