Noosa National Park

 One morning we had a walk along the path from the National Park office to Dolphin Point and yes following Adventure Lab questions 😀 sadly we didn't see any koalas or dolphins or whales in the distance, but we enjoyed the walk and the sea views and the sunshine.

I didn't realise when I took the photo but see now there is a defibrillator front and centre, great idea as the walk was up and down and I imagine very hot in the summer months.

Hard to see, but the area behind the rock is known as the Boiling Pot, the waves come in to the left and fill the pot and it does resemble a boiling pot.

No dolphins we could see on this day.

View from the lookout before we got to the National Park

View from the lookout again  over the river

On the way home we stopped and got lunch at Perigian Beach and then had a walk along the beach

Great firm sand for walking on 😎

Coolum in the distance

Happy stitching.

Back from holidays - photo heavy

 We have spent the last 10 days at Coolum Beach in Qld, a very nice change from the cold weather we had been having here at home. 

Our first afternoon/evening we had a walk along the beach

There were beautiful colours in the sky and on the beach as the sun went down

and the moon appeared

We had a lovely dinner at the Surf Club to cap off a very pleasant although tiring  day.

The next morning saw an 8.30 beach walk

Lots of people were out walking

This group of people had been swimming

Later in the day we met some friends from Perigian Springs and Sue and I went to find an Adventure Lab

One answer we needed was by the water tower, the views were wonderful

then we went down to the beach, I had an unsuccessful attempt at finding a cache and hot my feet full of thorns - note to self no stomping around in the bush in bare feet!

I did manage to find this cache after standing under it for a while 😀

View as we left this part of the beach.

another late afternoon/evening walk along the boardwalk above the beach at Coolum.

It was very peaceful watching the waves roll in.

After a rest day Sue and I were off following Adventure Labs again, this was at a war memorial at Buderim

This was one of the original houses in the town, closed when we were there sadly but it has been well looked after

Then we went on to the Maroochydore Botanic Gardens - more of a native gardens

with interesting sculptures

this was in the sculpture garden area

as was this snake sculpture

it was a beautiful pace to wander around in, so many beautiful trees

I didn't take photos of every sculpture although it was tempting!

I liked this little guy

and this area was beautiful, so peaceful

this gate was something we needed to find to answer a question in the Adventure Lab there.

Are you still awake and with me?

I think I had better stop there for now

Happy stitching.

Brisbane

                                          Yesterday we had an afternoon walk at the beach

we walked thru the bush and swampy area to get to the beach.

In the morning I had been to Coolum, we were very lucky to see whales way out at sea, leaping out and splashing.

no photos sadly, they were too far away.

There were lots of beautiful bromeliads in the local gardens at Perigian Springs

I could have taken several home.

by the river in Brisbane

This bird was running around with an egg it had been eating

I had a lovely walk around there today, even found a cache.

Time to do a little stitching now.