Travelling south toward Brisbane past any number of big things and the Sunshine Coast.
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The 'Big Ned Kelly' standing outside of the Ned Kelly Motel in Maryborough. We were unsure as to why he was here and after extensive investigation we were unable to find out the link as Ned Kelly never went to Queensland. Apparently local folk lore has it that perhaps he had some relatives in the area.
A winters day on the beach at The Great Sandy National Park north of Noosa. A long bike ride and short ferry crossing from Noosa to a deserted beach on a lovely warm day.
The 'Big Pelican' at Noosa. Noosa encompasses three zones: Noosa Heads, Noosaville and Noosa Junction and has an amazing number of roundabouts. Noosa proved to be a very nice place to stay and hang out for a while.
The Taste of Ginger Tour at the Buderim Ginger Factory which has been around for 40 years. The tour shows the full ginger story from planting through processing to final use. It is the world's largest operating ginger factory within a themed tourist park that promotes ginger and associated products.
The Big Pineapple at Woombye. It is 16 metres high and is claimed to be the world's largest pineapple, gaining this title after a large pineapple-shaped water tower in Hawaii was dismantled in 1993. This leg of the trip has had the highest number of big things running at a rather impressive 1 big things per 50km travelled.
"Crikey" Fleur and Ellie at Steve Irwin's Australian Zoo. More than just a zoo with many hands-on, close up animal experiences and entertaining shows. No sight of Bindi, she must have been away at school. Nice in the day but this was, however, one of our coldest night time camping experiences so far, but then it is winter!
Aussie World - the only theme park on the Sunshine Coast and a warm up for the bigger more extreme theme parks to come on the Gold Coast. Fleur and Ellie happy to be here for the day.
Redcliffe - The place where the Bee Gees started out on their musical careers in the late 1950s signing their first record on the kitchen table before moving to America to conker the world. Fleur and Ellie on the Bee Gees wall of fame on Bee Gees Way which was opened by Barry in February 2013.
Any cheese with ginger it is very hard to get here your dad and I like it .wehave noticed there are a lot of large things in oz the pineapple looks good.enjoy the theme parks fleur and Ellie xx
ReplyDeleteI'm stiil enjoying the ginger cakes,biscuits and ginger cheese which you sent for my birthday . In the 'old days' ,I used to buy ginger from Buderim Ginger Growers to make ginger marmalade but never got the chance to visit there. Hopefully you were able to give them top marks in quality control .
ReplyDeleteGranny still enjoys listening to The Bee Gees and was interested to see them as young lads.
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As you say, very strange that Ned is up there - the Queenslanders have enough of their own outlaws without borrowing one from Victoria! Trust you've been singing along to Saturday Night Fever on your way round... Hxxx
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