So where were we? Which way is up?
Had an ok night sleep. Got ready and walked down to the beach, then up and back on it for a while. Got some photos of the local budgies (aka birds - pelicans, herons etc).
Checked out and headed north for Coloundra, where more beachfront was to be had. We were standing around when a dude turned up and laid out a big orange X for some skydivers to aim for. So we waited around for that. Saw a couple of sea eagles who were nesting while we were waiting, which was very cool. Eventually the skydivers arrived (there were only two of them) and I got some photos and a movie, although dad ruining the movie by swearing cause his camera wouldn't focus. Oh well, what can you do?
Then we headed inland to Maleny to find a good view of the Glasshouse Mountains. Walked through a little rainforest walk, then had lunch at a very nice cafe overlooking the mountains. Then we got in the car and drove down to them. We walked halfway up Mt Beerwar (there were rockclimbers on the mountain who were dangling rather precariously from a huge overhang).
I tried to get onto Uncle Colin on the way back, but he wasn't home and his mobile was off, so we didn't stop in to visit him. We did stop by Brisbane airport and had a look at the Southern Cross plane flown by Charles Kingsford Smith. Then we headed down to the Gold Coast and checked into a caravan park, and had dinner (roast of the day for $9.50 heh).
Oh yes, and we had to trawl through several shopping centres looking for film. Dad didn't bring enough, and they want a specific kind (Fuji 200 which is really hard to get anywhere), so we had to spend half the trip looking for it. In the end they gave up and got Kodak high definition. But I'm sure if he'd had to go shopping for me because I hadn't come prepared, he would have been thoroughly pissed. But again, what can you do?
The caravan park has an internet kiosk, will go check it out later. Internet access is so much harder in Australia. Most motels I've stayed at recently don't even have phones in the rooms :(
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