Back on the road again...........Sunshine Coast 10.01.2013 to 13.01.2013

Six weeks Crowey left me at my mum and dad's for. It is the longest time I have spent with them since leaving home at 19 years of age. We had some good quality time together, just the three of us for Christmas (oh and of course their dog Moonbi who soon had me trained to play with her and fetch her treats). New Years was spent  in Hervey Bay with some friends of mum and dad's and on the way back dropped into the Maryborough showgrounds where a fairly impressive fireworks display  was going on.

sunset at mum and dads

Moonbi, mum and dad's dog with her xmas toy

cheers from the murphs xmas day (note dad is ready to eat)

little green frog at mum and dads

Its quite amusing how we all live our own day to day lives, and staying with mum and dad for this extended period made me realise and probably confirm my suspicions that they are workaholics. Yes they are retired, but live on 3 plus acres of land where they have many a job to do including mulching, making steps down their embankment which then had to be painted. I guess I don't mind doing a hard days physical work, but day after day of it? There were times when the heat rose that little bit too much and mum and I went on strike and stayed in the cool of the house and chilled out. We even managed to have a few girlie days where we went shopping and had a nice time amongst the shops looking.

All in all it was great spending that time with them but I was hanging out for Crowey to get back from Melbourne to continue our journey. Six weeks proved to be a long time to be apart and needless to say we did miss each other a lot, especially that we had been together 24/7 over the past nine months or so.

So on the 10th January we finally headed off again, saying goodbye to mum and dad and needless to say missing out on mulching that day.

Our first destination was the Sunshine Coast. Well was that a busy spot! Of course school holidays are in full swing and the caravan parks were charging astronomical prices per night. We ended up coming across a park in Bli Bli, about 5km from Coolum Beach. Sunshine Coast covers Noosa Heads, Coolum Beach, Mooloolaba and Caloundra to name a few towns. Extremely busy all along this coast and a bit of an eye opener for us of how populated the east coast is compared to the west coast. We still did our best to explore all of this region though but there is no way we would live here with the property market quite high, especially in Noosa Heads, a place that kind of reminded me of Port Douglas with the elite cafes, dress shops and properties. Nice place if you have a spare couple of million.