Sunshine Coast (it's been a while!)

Ola from Queensland!

 As some of you may know we have left Lowannah farm and the macadamia's behind us. We spent in total 5 weeks there, and have much love for Will, Inara and Chica for being wonderful hosts. Although nothing as exciting as another snake incident happened it was still fun none the less. The weather fluctuated between blue sky and 20 degrees to one week of constant rain, and bore Bruce felt the brunt of the cold mountain nights when his starter battery died. Poor Bruce! In the meantime he has had a new battery, we spent a day making him new curtains and he has had a tune up so is running better than ever! The last day of work we did was repointing the tiles on the roof of a house overlooking the ocean at Ballina, a job our friends Ben and Lianne had done when they stayed at the same farm 5/6 years ago. We were really sad to leave but onwards we must press! We greatly enjoyed watching the Lions win their tour here in the rugby (they were 3 drunken Saturday nights in a row), but didn't see any of Andy Murray win Wimbledon as it didn't start till 10 o'clock at night when we were up at 10 to 7 the next morning. Last weekend we arrived in Brisbane following Rhiannon's successful meeting at Bond University on the Gold Coast to do simulation work, as she does back home. She has since got a first date of work through so it looks like we will be settling there for the near future! In Brisbane we again stayed with our friends, Tim and Olivia, as it was Olivia's 30th birthday. We spent the whole day setting up the house for a massive garden party and in the evening had a quality knees up, dancing away to an Irish band Tim had booked. Not only did they attempt some quality 80's covers they were also really nice guys so check out Sásta on YouTube and Facebook and give them some love! This past week we have been meandering round the Sunshine Coast. Starting off with a drive through the Glasshouse Mountains along Steve Irwin Way (Crikey!), we have also played crazy golf, climbed Mount Coolum, sat on the beach in and walked through Noosa National Park (where we saw our first wild Koala), perused the shops in stylish Noosa itself, lunched at Boreen Point, saw wild freshwater turtles and beautiful plant life at Noosa Botanical Gardens, before ending the week at stunning Rainbow Beech where we climbed a 120m high sand blow before being awestruck at the beautiful multicoloured cliffs! All in all it has been one of the best weeks of our trip so far, with Bruce holding his own and top notch weather.This week so far has been just as fun, with a trip to the very cool market at Eumundi, a day of waterfalls in the hinterland and finally a detour to see the Big Pineapple! Missing you all as always, big love! Alex and Rhiannon x x x