Day 6 { Friday 23rd December}

By Christmas Eve Eve, the heat had obviously started to take its toll on the VERY tired A-team.

The Zip on the tent broke the night before and we spent most of the morning trying to fix it/sewing it up so that the rain wouldn't get in at our next camp site.

I was seriously considering packing it all in and going home at this point (considering how tired we all were from the wedding/driving through the night less than 5 days before -- plus I hadn't showered in a WHOLE day.)

Then there was a glimmer of light on the way to our next destination by way of nutworks!

Jessica 

23 December 2011 near Yandina, Queensland

Sour Cream & Onion Macadamias from Nutworks! Yummmm

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   This place seriously had EVERY kind of Macadamia coated in brilliant combinations of herbs/sweetie spices.

   After scoffing a few hundred free samples we went away with some much needed chocolate, and some Sour Cream & Onion Macadamias. YUM!

We took it upon ourselves to go to Bundaberg to find the original peachee. When we found that they had indeed replaced 

it with a new recipe we let the cashier know that the new peachee was a disgrace. (because the cashier changed the recipe right?)

Then is was off to the laundromat...

Jessica 

23 December 2011

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6 months ago I booked a Mon Repos turtle conservation tour. Coincidentally we were the numbers 00, 01, 02 in the First group -- the perks of being organised!

We lathered ourselves in Aero guard - watched half an educational movie outside before it started raining. Went to purchase some ponchos and found there were only collingwood ones left! (ew) Purchased them against all our better judgements. 

Went down to the beach the first time and a group of Asians got too close and scared the first turtle off.

Went down the the beach a second time and at 10.00pm saw...

Loggerhead turtle number k91532  laying her second clutch for the season.

It was HUGE, and the eggs were kinda like ping pong balls that bounced back when you dented/touched them.

Then the scary night time/axe murderer adventure began.

We jumped back in the car (by this time about 10.45pm) and headed to our next camp.

It had been raining on and off all night, there were no signs to our camp site. 

We managed to drive 10 minutes up a random dirt (mud) road before changing direction because we were worried we would be bogged (in the middle of no where) at 11.20 at night... we were drifting scarily along it and had a few close calls.

We had actually driven about 20 minutes past our turn off and turned down the wrong road! (lucky we didn't get bogged)

From this experience I say, the national parks need better signage to camp sites! Oh and sorry to the farmer whose road we totally destroyed with skidding tyre marks.

After we FINALLY found our camp

 (we were beginning to realise if you are only going to pay $10 to camp you needed to drive a fair way into each national forest ... and you couldn't depend on there being any signage until you arrived at the camp site at the end of some dirt track -- thanks goodness for google maps, not for directions, so that I could see if there was a legitimate sized clearing to guess if that was a camp site!)

We arrived at Norval Park Camp ground. Set - up.. bed. 

Day 5 {Thursday 22nd}

The next morning we relaxed in the cool of Aunty M's house before heading off to the heat of Australia Zoo. (well Australia in general)

warning: some BAD pictures of Kyle coming up..

After driving for approx: 2 hrs we landed at Australia Zoo.

After a little confusion over which carpark to choose (there was about 3 HUGE overflow carparks)

we settled on going with "the closest to the entrance"

(seriously? what a job! feeding the crocs)

touching a piggy tail.. so soft.

 kissing the resident goats..

 Crikey! good hops Mr A.

 Whats all this lazing about?!

what a squinting hottie..

off on safari.. "looks its a deer! a john deer!"

teenie tiny me. on safari.

We enjoyed Australia Zoo so much we stayed right up until they kicked us out.

I'm not particularly sure if I enjoyed the shrine to Steve and I felt a little disenfranchised by what seemed to be a memorial to him. I found it a little unsettling that he was being "plugged" even after he had died. But I suppose it was his legacy and it is his zoo..

We spent so long at Australia Zoo we didn't have time to drive to our designated camp site (an hour away at Obi Obi) so we stayed in the national park (Beerburrum) near Beerwah which was only about 5 minutes away instead.

(Above, the camp spot)

The Coochin Creek camping area was probably one of the nicest we had stayed in, with great amenities  & it was only $10.00 for the night! (we love our state forests!)

I was a little jealous of the grey nomads with their solar panels and hot water systems at this point, I was missing the shower at Aunty M's considering it had been such a stinking hot day I couldn't wait to have a shower..within the next 4 days maybe?

DAY # 4 {Wednesday 21st}

The following day we had a BIG sleep in, and lazed about camp for a while before heading off..

We said goodbye to our tropically lizard friend..

Then jumped in the car ready to go. We drove past a road side fruit shop on the way in so on the way out we stopped to get some tropically tropic fruit from it.

One of the ones we chose we had never seen before, it actually looked quite nice! But it smelt and tasted a little like sweaty feet.. you'll know what I mean if you've had dragon fruit before.

Needless to say, the rest of this one was flung out for the birds!

Pretty soon we were crossing over the border and we were suddenly in QLD!

We headed off to Bleeding Heart to check out some of our booqi range-- which they stock.

Then caught up with one of our favourite QLDers at Fiasco's-- they have REALLY nice steaks. If you're ever in QLD we suggest heading over that way.

(sorry forgot to get a photo again!)

Figured out that we had been an hour ahead since crossing the boarder..

(I put $4.00 in the meter for 2 hrs, checked the time it spat out and thought it had duped me $2.00 because it had only given me an hour for parking, suddenly realised that we hadn't changed our clocks back an hour ! )

Then it was off to Harbour Town  for some serious retail therapy.

Before heading to Aunty M's & Uncle P's for the night.

phew!