Day 9 – Kingaroy to Coolum

We awoke this morning to full cloud cover and wet ground – it seems it had rained a bit overnight. Taking our time to pack up, we farewelled Kingaroy a bit after 9:30am and headed up the Bunya Highway, driving through Murgon, Goomeri, Kilkivan (we had a lot of fun with that … get it? Kill Kevin lol) and then finally arriving at Gympie a bit after 11. Stopping at the trusty Tourist Information Centre, we discovered that there was a café a short walk across a lovely park - Lake Alford Park. We waited for Kev & Maz who were a bit behind us, and I took the opportunity to hide a couple of rocks.

After Maz & Kev arrived we strolled across the park, grabbed some take away coffees, and then wandered back to enjoy a break in the park. There were a lot of birds around the lake in the park – ducks, swans, guinea fowl and even chooks! A nice place to stop. When we walked back I noticed one of the rocks was gone – ‘hope’ they liked it lol.

It was then a short drive really to get to Noosa where we decided to meet up for a picnic lunch. We had a bit of a heavy rain shower along the way and I thought the picnic may be in jeopardy, but thankfully the clouds parted long enough for us to enjoy some mottled sunshine over our picnic table at Noosa Marina. Amazingly, as we drove the last short leg to Coolum, the clouds and rain returned and it was lightly raining when we arrived at the Coolum Beach Caravan Park a little after 3pm and unpacked.

It continued to rain on and off all afternoon but Gaz and I managed to walk around a bit to get our bearings in between showers. Our cabin is about 100m from the short walkway to the beach in one direction and about 100m to the Coolum shops in the other direction. The surf club is 200m up the road so we are certainly centrally placed for the next four nights. Unfortunately it is forecast to rain the whole time we are here. Hopefully we will get some breaks in the weather – I’m dying to have a swim as the water temperature is 24.1 degrees. That’s warmer than the air temperature! Gaz & I had a night in tonight, feasting on leftovers for dinner. The cabin here is fabulous – the most spacious one yet. Looking forward to a good night’s sleep.