09 10.07

RAINBOW BEACH

Awoke to light drizzle and the threat of rain but it cleared to a nice warm day.

Went into Rainbow beach and had lunch at the local bakery then to the bait shop for some things and drove up to Inskip Point where we had a chat to the young fellow there about going over to Fraser Island( we have booked to go for two nights next week). From there we drove down the beach nearly to Rainbow Beach stopping on the way to fish. The sand was very hard and easy to drive on as the tide was low. Di and Pam sat in the car while Fred and I threw some bait away until we both caught a flathead each. We were using beach worms and prawns bought from the bait shop, Fred caught his ( a small one) on prawns and I put on a shiny 80 gram lure and pulled a big flathead from the surf, a chap down the beach caught what looked to be a nice tailor.

Later Fred and I went to a creek in the upper reaches of Tin Can Bay where I caught a small Bream. On the way in we stopped at the Aboriginal Bora site and found my second Geocache, we had looked for it a couple of days ago but this time we were successful. Who needs a GPS!!!

10 10.07

BIRD WATCHING AT FREDS

Went bird watching today with Dorothy a friend of Fred and Pam; she is very passionate about her vocation and does an official count each month. The birds of interest, Eastern Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Greenshank, Redcapped Plover, Red necked Stint, Gull Faced tern, and a pair of Pied Oyster Catchers, were in the upper reaches of Cooloola Cove on a large area of swamp land. We had to walk quite a distance along the shore line , sometimes wading in the water, it was all very interesting as these birds migrate here from Siberia.

In the afternoon Fred and I went to Rainbow Beach fishing where Fred caught two Dart and a Bream in the surf and I caught zip. There were whales out in the bay that made it very entertaining by whacking their tails in the water and leaping out with a great amount of splashing. The girls went into TCBay for coffee.

11 10.07

Freds

Quiet day, went into TCB and bought lunch, fish which was very nice at a small eating place. Later went to look for a cache down by the dolphin feeding area, it was close to a takeaway shop and the girl was watching from inside, she came out asking if we were “looking for some internet thing as a chap was here last week and nearly wrecked my garden”! Well we had to fess up and then I had a look around and found it, my third. Looked for a couple others but it is pretty hard without a proper GPS.

12.10.07

Another quiet day with Dianne laid up with a very sore foot, it has been bad for some weeks but was worse today. I did the washing and then Di went to the physio after lunch which helped a lot.

13 10.07

HARRYS HUT

Had a big drive today, went down to Noosa and Maroochydore via the back roads via Harrys Hut.

This was over some dirt tracks to the head of the Noosa River going through the Cooloola Sand National Park, a very pretty and interesting trip. The water in the Noosa River at Harrys Hut is very stained by the tannins from the Melaleuca’s in the area and as it runs off the National Park which is all sand it is very clean although looks dirty.

Further on we went to Boreen Point which is on a large lake but as it is in the same river is also is brown, we stopped there for lunch.

We then went on to Noosa which is very crowded with lots of holidayers and lot and lots of accommodation of all kinds. Went on to Sunshine Plaza which is a big centre built over tributary of the river and very flash with restaurants looking over the water below.

Came home along a similar route to the morning, lots of dirt road with some kangaroos and two mobs of cows on the road we had to stop for. Had a great day.