This Beautiful Place We Live

I was talking to a friend this morning who is living in Valparaiso, Chile for a while (one of the most beautiful, photo worthy places on the planet!!)  with her husband and young family, and she said that while they were all having a great time, she was missing our beautiful country. It got me thinking- we really do live in a beautiful place, and I'm sure many of us take it for granted! So I flicked (well clicked really) through some of my old photos, and put together a collection of some of SE Qld's beautiful places- Hope you enjoy! :)

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Weekend Getaway Part II: Big City Lights

So we've been to the Brisbane airport and been plane watching. JBV is looking a bit disappointed at this stage- its 1:30 in the afternoon and he has to be at work back home in Noosa at 5, and all we've done is gone somewhere for me to take photos! JBV said he was fine, he had a great time just being with me. Ha! We'd heard from other people plane watching that the cruise ship was in dock, so we went to check it out. Again, just for me to take some photos! Once we left there, I got JBV to give me directions from the iphone to our motel. As we pulled in, he still had no idea what was going on- and then I told him I'd got him the night off work! Talk about over the moon! We stayed at the at "The Point" on Kangaroo point- and while JBV thinks this was all done for him- I actually booked this particular room because of the city views.... :) We had Sparkling wine and a cheese platter waiting for us, headed down to the bar and drank cocktails, and ate at the restaurant- the only ones there! The next morning we had a full buffet breakfast, and went over to DFO (direct Factory Outlet) where I did a bit of shopping! Nanny met us there with the kids, and we headed home. I hadn't seen the kids in 4 days, and I'd actually really been missing them! Until about 10 minutes into the drive home.... yep, back to reality!
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Mothar Mountain Rock Pools

A friend told JBV about the Mothar Mountain Rock pools a couple of weeks ago, and we've been meaning to get up there ever since. Only about "30 minutes" from Noosa she says. I've been to Mothar Mt speedway before, and was pretty sure the trip was going to be a little longer, but according to this woman, if we took the "shortcut" (an old dirt track in the 4WD) it was going to be a much quicker trip. An hour later, we finally pulled up at the Rock pools. We weren't worried, getting there was half the fun- the kids had never been on anything like the small, wooden, single lane bridges before! And then there was the big old Bull with huge horns standing on the side of the road (dirt track)- on the wrong side of the fence- just staring at us as we went around it. The kids thought it was going to charge us! (truth be known, I was a bit nervous myself! lol). Its a nice little spot, with picnic tables and a wood fired BBQ. We were told the place was always deserted- but remembering this was from the same mouth who told us it was a 20 to 30 minute trip- there were actually quite a lot of day trippers exploring the area! I guess our informant has told a lot of people about this "secluded" and "deserted" spot....! But the kids loved it! It was obviously way too cold for swimming (I reckon it'd still be way too cold for swimming in the middle of Summer) but we did some exploring, and had our little picnic before heading to the Gympie duck ponds...
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A Noosa Evening

Sunday night, we had a STUNNING sunset- it was yucky and overcast all day, but for about 10 minutes, the clouds became almost blood red! Of course I was without my camera. The weather today was much like that on Sunday, so I was hoping for a repeat sunset. No such luck. But it was still a peaceful evening in Noosa

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