Sunday 29th June - Mooloolaba

We are staying at the Mooloolaba Caravan Park for 3 nights.  Our back window looks out towards the beach and except for the dense shrubbery we would be able to see the water, just a few glimpses which is better than nothing.  Yesterday we called into the Sunshine Plaza shopping centre at Maroochydore across the road for Rivers where we picked up a heap of bargains.  The Plaza is built over the Cornmeal River and is very unusual as well as very pleasant sitting having a coffee looking out over the water. We then went for a drive up to Maleny and Montville for a look around.  They are little boutique towns situated in the Hinterland and the scenery getting there and back is quite spectacular.  A pizza for lunch at Maleny and then onto Montville where we were going to have a nice long walk around the shops except that it started to rain a little heavier so off home it was.  Saturday night it was up to the Vietnamese Restaurant (Vinh) for dinner with Max and Carol for our second last meal, after dinner it was over to the Surf Club to try our luck at the pokies....played for 15 minutes and ended up square,  Max was the only winner for the night.  Home into bed and it poured, very very heavy rain during the night. Luckily it is a beautiful sunny day today so all good. Today we are going for a drive up to Noosa, Barry & I have never been there so looking forward to seeing what it is like, we are actually looking for a nice caravan park where we can base ourselves for 3 or 4 weeks which is right on the beach and the weather is nice, so far the Sunshine Coast looks like ticking the boxes, all we need to do is find the right park...... Can't believe that our Kununurra holiday is nearly over and I am sitting here planning the next one....!!.  Sunday night will be our farewell dinner which we plan to have at a Thai Restaurant at The Wharf right across the road from the caravan park. Tomorrow morning we bid Max & Carol a fond farewell before we hit the road free camping for 2 nights on our way down to Sydney and Lane Cove National Park.

A wonderful dinner at the Thai Wharf on The Wharf at Mooloolaba tonight.  Tomorrow morning the Victorians head south and Max & Carol head home to The Gold Coast.  The girls had a bit of a mess around as we left the restaurant.  There was a group of kids rides against the wall so we all decided to have our photo taken on them. Gave us all a good laugh.

A drive up to Noosa today and we found a Shell Shop at Tewantin.  Lovely shells and managed to buy a few.