We went for a day trip to visit Darren's cousin Matt on his farm at Kandanga. It's beautiful country. Matt took Darren and the boys for a tour around the farm in the car pictured above. The boys sat in the back and hung on tight as they went up and down some very big hills. They thought it was awesome! Tara jumped in for the last leg back to the house.
Before we left the Sunshine Coast, Heather and I had a girls' day together. We ate and shopped our way around the Eudlo markets and Maleny. It was so much fun and will keep me going for a while! Then on our last day, Heather and I took the kids to the Ginger Factory. There was a kids' boat ride set up a little like the Bermuda Triangle ride at Seaworld. Tara was a little wary because the Seaworld ride had totally freaked her out, but we assured her this one was not scary at all. It had over 600 puppets in settings of different countries, and we had to spot the Gingerbread Man in each one. All the kids loved it.
The next morning was a very sad farewell.
Our next stop was a little town called Tiaro - chosen because it was mentioned in our camps book as having a really nice free campsite by the Mary River. It was really nice, but we couldn't find a flat spot (we are waiting on levelling blocks we ordered). One of the other campers told us there was another spot in town, so we went there instead. It wasn't anything special, but it was right next to the skate park! The kids were beside themselves! We stayed there one night, then headed north to the next camp spot we had picked from our camps book - near the town of 1770. Unfortunately, we discovered when we were almost there that it was closed. (Pays to ring ahead!) We sat in the car and tried to find other caravan parks in the area, but they were too expensive, so we turned back toward the highway. After a lovely (and late) lunch at Miriam Vale, we drove toward Gladstone, with the thought we would look for a half decent rest stop for the night. On the way we saw signs for Lake Awoonga caravan park and decided to go there. I was in desperate need of a washing machine! What a great spot! The lake itself was stocked with barramundi so we thought we'd go fishing in the hope we'd actually catch something. We got heaps of nibbles right from the start, but then Brodie had a major meltdown because he wanted to hire a boat to go out to the middle of the lake. He kept whining, saying, "We're never going to catch anything standing here!" After a while he decided to have another go....and guess who was the only one to catch a fish.....Brodie, of course! In fact, he caught two. They were very small and we had to throw them back, but Brodie hasn't stopped saying to us all, "I can't believe I caught a fish!"
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