Drove to Noosa, which is on the coast. Its a lovely little place which goes inland following the river from the sea so some of it feels like a beach town and some feels like countryside. Its very leafy too, the main shopping/bar/restaurant street which runs parallel to the beach is lined with bushy low trees, so it doesn't feel like you're near the sea at all. It has quite an expensive feel to it, looking at estate agents there are some gorgeous houses in t...

After going to a Wicked to get the camper checked (which only took a few minutes, so I can't imagine they did much!) we spent the day in Brisbane. Woke up this morning having parked on a ridiculously steep hill, so we were both at one end of the van! Went for breakfast at an Italian cafe, suprisingly good fry up too, only 20c extra for loads of mushrooms, yummy! (...little things eh?!) Hit the road and drove up the Bruce Highway (which will take us all...

Got up and drank cuos of Tetley tea with Marianne and Neil and talked for an hour or two. They were in Thailand when the tsunami hit and were telling us about it. Sounded so scary, haven't met anyone who was actually there before. We left them and set out for Brisbane. Would have been a nightmare to park normally but its a bank holiday so we parked in the centre. Not a huge amount was open because of the holiday but Brisbane looks like a cool city. We went...

Spent the morning on the campsite talking to the guy parked next to us in a battered old green camper van. He was an Aussie pensioner who was a bit of an old hippy - smoking weed all the time. He's in the area as its Nimbin's 'Mardis Grass' festival next weekend, he's from Adelaide. We helped him put some tint on his back window - which wasa very long drawn out process, especially as he kept breaking every so often to have a toke on his 'cone' !! he wasa nic...

Spent the morning on the campsite talking to the guy parked next to us in a battered old green camper van. He was an Aussie pensioner who was a bit of an old hippy - smoking weed all the time. He's in the area as its Nimbin's 'Mardis Grass' festival next weekend, he's from Adelaide. We helped him put some tint on his back window - which wasa very long drawn out process, especially as he kept breaking every so often to have a toke on his 'cone' !! he wasa nic...