We eft Mullumbimby Showgrounds, the weather was cool and it looked like we might get some rain. We set our Navman to get us to Beerwah and hopefully on the shortest route via the Tollway. Not loong on the road and Ron decided that Navman was taking us the wrong way so we ended up trying to get ourselves on the right roads, which of course was a disaster when you have a van on behind and have no idea where the roads go. Eventually we got onto the Motorway and found our way to Beerwah Sportsground where we were going to stay for a few nights. The Sportsground was quite good for a few nights, not particularly pretty where we were parked on some old bitumen but it was level and we didn't have to worry about overhanging trees and it was a good price.
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Not sure if this is the tunnel we should be going through - can't turn back now!
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| Finally got to Beerwah Sportsground |
Beerwah is a great little town and has all the facilities needed including Aldi.
Day 9 - Monday
We set off this morning to meet Kirsten, Michael and grandchildren at Australia Zoo. The Zoo is much larger than I was expecting, and we had a great day with the family. The weather was perfect and there was so much to see. It was very well organised and lots of information about feeding times etc and special events which were great.
Today we left the van at Beerwah and headed off
to Maleny & Montville. We walked around these lovely little towns, stopped for coffees and gelati - a good day out! On way back to Beerwah we stopped at a lookout to view the Glass House mountains.
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| Near Montville |
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| Views from near Monville |
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| Lovely lunch at Montville DAY 11 - WEDNESDAY
We left Beerwah this morning and headed to Eumundi to meet up with our daughter as Eumundi have great open air markets and we have heard they are really good. We arrived there about 9 am and were absolutely amazed at how huge they were and how many people there were, roads blocked off, huge parking areas and masses of people everywhere. Now we have a problem - how are we ever going to find our daughter & family? I rang her but it is so crowded and there seemed to be no landmarks to meet at, just heaps of stalls, so we said we would just look around on our own and see what happens, might be lucky and find each other. Before long it started to rain, so we had to find some shelter, along with everyone else! I rang Kirsten again & she said they were having coffee at a little shop in amongst all the stalls and as it turned out, it was right near where we were standing and I managed to see the grandchildren first, so we all had coffee together. Ron was not feeling like walking around so we left him and we took the children and had a nice little walk around looking at the great handicrafts and lots of clothes which were quite different to our shops down "south". Then back to the coffee shop to find Ron and to have some lunch before we parted company and we travelled north on our trip.
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