Oct 1, 2012 - Maroochydore

This is the life! We found a beautiful park right on the beach but it’s a tad expensive at $42 per night. Everything is at your fingertips on the Sunshine Coast – real civilisation. The Maroochy River Caravan Park is lovely, not real big sites but very well planned, and the amenities are spotless. Lots of permanent residents, also a village down the back for aged persons. Day 2 and the first port-of-call was the Ettamogah Pub. Barry and I were seated in the bar at 10.30am having a beer. Not quite the done thing but I loved the place. It has...

Oct 26, 2011 - CARAVAN PHOTOS

Hi All, Well we promised those of you who had asked about the caravan some details, well here they are and we will try and keep it brief. Effectively the van has 3 main sources of power. Gas, 12 volt (off 2 on board batteries) and normal domestic 240 volts so depending where we are depends on how we set her up for the night. Whilst driving the only thing running inside the van is the 2 door fridge/freezer powered off the car battery but only when the engine is running. When we stop at a caravan park we plug into their 240 volts and connect...

Aug 17, 2011 - Maroochydore - Aug 15 - 21

Once settled in to the Cotton Tree Holiday Park, with our stunning views out over the ocean/river mouth, we walked to Connie's home to say hello. The Sunshine Plaza is worth seeing - is built over the river and the eateries all have riverside seating - amazing. Caught up with Flip and John the following evening for dinner at their place up in Buderim. Spent some time at the Queensland Air Museum where there are loads of aircraft covering the history of Qld aviation - very well done, too. John and Flip came in their boat, pulling up just in...

Apr 5, 2011 - Maroochydore

1st April. On the road again, we are heading to Maroochydore. It is just over 100klms from Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast (that’s a laugh it’s raining yet again) We arrived at the Mudjimba Beach Caravan Park at lunchtime (nice park, good amenities) The charger hasn’t charged the power system, so we went and had the battery checked and it’s flat, so more expense $425 later for a new one, Wayne connected it only to find it still wasn’t working so he phoned the makers of the charger and they said there is a special sensor that obviously hasn’t...

Sep 25, 2010 - Sunshine coast!

En route vers Maroochydore, Sunshine coast...on sait pas trop ce qui ce passe la-bas, mais une amie du club med a Shani vit la, alors on passe dire bonjour! Il y a aussi une game de AFL, football australien, qui joue et St.Kilda (la ou jai habite a melbourne) sont en finale!! On passe une belle journee et soiree avec nos copines, mais on a pas d'$ a depenser, so on est quiet :( de retour au dodo vers minut et demain matin sur la route!

Feb 12, 2010 - January update

Can you believe it - February already?? So what have we been up to? Well let me think...... January was a busy month work wise. After some time off over Christmas Ken went back to his job at the caravan park and I went back to school. Both of us found (and still find) it really hard dealing with the humidity. As Ken works outside all day he really feels it - he finds that within 10 minutes of starting work he is soaking with sweat. It really really drains you. The job in the park is OK - nothing too exciting but at least it is a job. As...

Dec 13, 2009 - Sunshine Coast

We headed to a Marrochydore Caravan Park, and headed to the first one that had a kids club advertised. Travel weary? not us!! Actually it was great, we'd put the kids into kids club, which they thought was fabulous, and we'd nick off to the shops to get christmas shopping done, or we'd duck down to Alexandra headland for some surfing, just the two of us, it was nice. We'd then laze around the pool or go back to the shops to catch up with more presents. Caught up with and old friend Kylie Claverino, and baby Isla and now expecting baby...

Oct 10, 2009 - Time with family

Really nice having family around again! Have been over to Laurie and Steve's for dinner, out with them for fish and chips and have had the pleasure of them popping in every now and then to say Hi. Really lovely! Spent a nice day with Trisha (my Aunt), her hubby Peter, my cousin Anthony and his girlfriend, and of course Laurie and Steve. We went to the tennis courts where we spent a few hours playing then enjoying a picnic lunch. It was a really nice day which we thoroughly enjoyed. We then had quite a busy week with most of it spent on the...

Oct 2, 2009 - Mooloolaba

And so we have arrived! After a pleasant drive down we have now arrived in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast. This is where my sister and aunt live so it will be nice to have some family around for a while. Going over to Laurie (my sister) and Steve's house for dinner tonight then spending Sunday with Trisha (my aunt) and her family to help her husband Peter celebrate his birthday. Staying in the Mooloolaba caravan park which is right on the beach and within a very short walking distance to the esplanade - shops to explore!!!

Aug 2, 2009 - Day 12 and 13 – Sunshine coast - Bert & Gert

On Saturday we needed to move the van as the Hibiscus van park had no vacancies so we moved the van about 20 minutes north to a place called Mudjimba (just north of Maroochydore). Once set up, we headed down to Mooloolaba to see Underwater World. The kids particularly liked the seal shows. Apart from that the claim to fame is it’s the ‘largest tropical oceanarium in the southern hemisphere’. I always love counting how many clarifications places put after the ‘largest’ claim. The underwater tunnel was pretty good, plenty of sharks and rays...

Mar 8, 2009 - Running down the coast away from Cyclone Hamish...

Sunday March 8 We are still running ahead of cyclone “Hamish”. It rained quite heavily at times overnight, our first real rain in the campervan but all is dry and cosy inside. We are glad not to be tenting. We went first today to the small town of "1770" on the coast. This is named after the visit of Cook in 1770, his second landfall in Australia and the first in Queensland. Hence the area claims to be the birthplace of Queensland (maybe not for the Aboriginal peoples). We enjoyed our usual morning coffee in Agnes Water and then motored...

Dec 10, 2008 - Left Noosa (Koala) for Maroochydore (K&K)

After a strange nights sleep we got up and had some breakfast at about 10am. The 'strange' part I'll let Em fill you in more about:- There was a bit of a strange lad in the bunk below me and in the middle of the night he kicked the underneath of my matress and started swearing......then he quitened down for a bit so I rolled over to try and get back to sleep and he was standing eye level at the side of my bunk just staring at me! He then walked around the room swearing and shouting then got back into bed!!! I know how he feels Em!!!...