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Noosa Running
Noosa National Park Loop This is my favourite Noosa run with spectacular scenery and varied terrain. From where we normally stay on the river it’s 14 km in total but from Noosa Beach it’s 9 km. From Hastings St., the trail runs along the coast with a mixture of asphalt and boardwalk and a couple fo decent hills to the National Park. Once there, I always run the loop anti-clockwise, up the Tanglewood Track and then around the coastal trail. The Tanglewood Track is a steep, fairly rough uphill with rocks and tree roots through the rainforest. Since I have been known to trip over on the Elwood Boardwalk I…
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Day trip to Rainbow Beach from Noosa by 2WD
While my daughter was visiting us in Noosa we went for a day trip to Rainbow Beach. Since we don’t have a 4WD we took the inland route, through Cooroy and Gympie. If you have a high clearance 4WD you can cross the Noosa River on the ferry and then drive along the Cooloola Beach Drive which would be spectacular. Arriving in Rainbow Beach mid-morning, we drove straight to the start point for the Carlo Sandlow Walk. This 2.8km walk takes you through the coastal eucalyptus forest and rainforest to reach the Carlo Sandblow. The day we went was showery, but the rain held off while we were walking. At…
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K’Gari: Kingfisher Bay Resort Part 2
You can read part 1 here. Monday we started our day walking south from the resort following the McKenzie’s Jetty High tide route. This track goes up and over the headland through the bush, passing the Southern Great Sandy Lookout and out through the dingo fence to the beach. We also passed through what was left of the old Commando School. McKenzie’s Jetty was built for the logging trade and some of the pylons and rusted machinery are still on the beach. We also saw lots of dingo tracks on this section of the beach. Along the beach were expanses of “coffee rock,” made up of sand grains weakly cemented…
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K’Gari Island – Around Kingfisher Bay Resort
We stayed four nights on K’Gari at the Kingfisher Bay Resort. The highlight of our trip was the Beauty Spots Day Tour, but the other days we enjoyed some quieter activities around the resort. There a number of short walks and a variety of ranger-led activities. Sunday morning we took the Beerillbee Track which winds up through the bush above the resort to the Great Sandy Northern Lookout. We then exited the resort area through the dingo gate, selecting some stout branches to ward off any dingoes and headed down towards Dundonga Creek. There was plenty of birdlife through this area. Once down at the creek we headed towards the…
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Friday Thoughts #19
We are home! After leaving K’Gari, we headed down to the Gold Coast for the Gold Coast Marathon Festival. We picked up daughter #2 from Brisbane Airport on the way. I want to share some of what we did in Noosa and more from K’Gari as well as a Gold Coast HM recap, but for now, I’ll share a few stories from our time at the Gold Coast. We stayed in Main Beach, right on the beach. This distracted Hubby as he kept spotting whales migrating when he was supposed to be working. I did a bit of work but also had some time for fun. My daughter and I…
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K’Gari: 4WD Beauty Spots Day Tour
K’Gari (Fraser Island) is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is the largest sand island in the world. The World Heritage property covers 181,851 hectares and includes all of K’gari and several small islands off the island’s west coast. It is the world’s largest sand island, offering an outstanding example of ongoing biological, hydrological and geomorphological processes. The development of rainforest vegetation on coastal dune systems at the scale found on K’gari is unique, and the island boasts the world’s largest unconfined aquifer on a sand island and half of the world’s perched freshwater dune lakes. K’gari has exceptional natural beauty with more than 250 kilometres of clear sandy beaches…
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Friday Thoughts #17
We went hiking in the Glasshouse Mountains last weekend. We started with a steep but concreted walk up to a lookout. I forget what this one was called, but the view was pretty good. Next we headed to Mount Tibrogargan. We started on the circuit walk, then decided to give the peak trail a go. There were a lot of warnings at the turnoff. The first section is steep, rocky steps, but then it changed to climbing. I decided to pull the pin here. I wasn’t feeling like challenging my fear of heights. Two of our party continued while the rest continued the circuit walk. It soon started raining pretty…