My journey. Teaching in China and exploring the world. |
My journey. Teaching in China and exploring the world. |
Our Christmas holiday started with an overnight flight to Brisbane, met by Uncle Ant and Auntie Annalis!! Very excited to see them after so many years and now over the other-side of Australia too! After being reunited with my cousins, who are now ALOT more grown up than the last time I saw them!! We spent the afternoon at the beach, at 'Little Cove' just up from Noosa main beach. It is so beautiful with the trees, the stunning beach and the colour of that water!!! Friday 21st November: Noosa SpitThe part where the ocean comes in and meets the river, so we had the best of both worlds, a more calm area for kayaking and swimming and then you could go out to the sea as well. It was a nice place to have shade under the trees and also it was only a 15minute walk down the beach to the main street, Hastings Street where there are lots of eateries and shops. Saturday 22nd December: Australia ZooMatt and I went out on the road down to Australia Zoo, which is about an hour from where we are staying, so we couldn't not do it!! It was a great day out, with the highlights, the koalas, croc show and the tiger show. It was great to be driving again and we had a lovely day, albeit in 35 degree heat!!! Sunday 23rd December: Conondale National Park, BooloumbaWe headed off out into the Hinterland of this area of Queensland to Booloumba Creek, which is about 45minutes from where we are staying and just outside of a town called Kenilworth. It was great fun off roading in the Hilux up the steep and winding dirt tracks and through the lakes before we parked up and walked around the area. We enjoyed swimming in the fresh water lakes as well which was really refreshing. Monday 24th December: CHRISTMAS EVE!!!Starting the day with an early round of golf, Matt and Ant went for 18 holes whilst I enjoyed a lie in! matt enjoyed seeing the kangaroos out on the course too. We met down at Boardwalk Bistro, where Anieke works, for some lunch and then headed to the Cove beach for the afternoon with Mia, Anieke and Coner. CHRISTMAS DAY!Starting the morning with a few presets, secret santa and a big brunch was exactly what we needed! And to top it all off, we spent the afternoon on the beach and then had a BBQ for dinner. DELISH. Very different from the usual Christmas festivities but that made it even more enjoyable as you can't compare the two! You can see the day through pictures much better than my words can describe! But it was so lovely in 7 years to have our first Christmas Day together :-) Boxing Day: Lazy morning and beach timesThursday 27th December: The EvergladesAbout a 30-40minutes drive in land from Anthony's place is a vast Everglade system, where there are waterways spanning 60km, with amazing trees and nature framing each edge. There are only two of these in the world, the other being in Florida. We tried to do a walk alongside Noosa Everglades, but it didn't really work as you can't walk along the bank. The best way to see this is to either kyack up it or go on a little boat cruise up it - maybe next time. Still it was lovely to be in the woods and walking, and to see some of the views which are stunning. We ventured to small towns on our drive back to Tewantin; Kin Kin was very quiet... Ramona, not much better but we did find a little pub for a drink and some cute antique places. And then we stopped in Cooroy, which is the next big town outside of Tewantin/Noosa area for some meat pies as a lunch snack!! In the evening we experienced an RSL Club (Returned and Services League) with Ant and Anna for out evening entertainment. It is a big institution which is set up to help the retired and serving Ozzie's in the army. There are 100s of Pokie (slot!) machines where you can gamble away all your change... then they do lots of different raffles (there was a meat raffle when we were there...) and food and drinks are all at a subsidised prices due to the money from the pokie machines being made. It was a really fun night and probably my lasting memory will be the bus ride back!! And also being one of the youngest groups there!
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