But first, I stopped by at the Kondilla National Park and Lake Baroon.
Passing through Malaney, I stopped at a cafe at Witta to have some lunch. A group of local vintage car enthusiasts turned up add added their vintage cars to the queue.
After a brief stop in Kenilworth, I continued around the loop tourist drive.
Down in Tewantin, I was greeted by road closures by the dozen. Still I managed to get into Tewantin, which surprised a woman in the house of shells. I wanted to visit the house of bottles, with it’s giant stubby, but she explained that it had been closed about a decade before and cleared for housing a few years before.
Avoiding Noosa, where it turns out they were holding an iron man rally, I headed back inland. I stopped at the top of Mount Timbeerwah, and disturbed an outside broad cast technician packing his OB equipment as the race was over.
I then headed south again, along the new road, to the budderium ginger factory, which owing to a lack of space in Budderim to expand is now in Yandina near Nambour.
I stopped for a short time at the Big Pineapple. It is sad to see how rundown it has become. It opened in the year before we first went to the sunshine coast.
After a detour to that scary place called Bribie Island, where when I was young you could be arrested by mysterious government agents, or bashed up by wild bikie gangs…
I headed off into Caloundra. I stopped at Dicky Beach to take a photo of the ship wreck and ended staying at Moffat Beach as there was a cheaper place there.
Unfortunately my grandparents old house is now a block of flats.
