Lightening Online

Our week on the Sunshine Coast went so quickly.  There’s plenty to do but we were also in need of a break so made sure we spent a couple of days through the week just chilling in the caravan park.  The park we stayed in (Dicky Beach) was close to the beach and we figured taking in the sunshine and the coast was as much a way of experiencing the Sunshine Coast as anything else.  The weather was lovely for most of the week (with 1 cooler day where it rained).

We couldn’t visit the Sunshine Coast without a visit to the Big Pineapple, no matter how tired people were telling us it was.

We didn’t find it too bad other than the fact that they wanted to charge us $70 to do 2 tours of around 25 minutes each which seemed expensive.  We chose to do the Macadamia tour and skip the pineapple tour (funny when you’re at the big pineapple I know but it was the cheaper of the 2).

Lleyton enjoyed cracking the macadamia nuts with a hammer:

We also splurged on some fruit sundaes from the eating area:

After we left the Big Pineapple, we visited a strawberry farm where the kids enjoyed picking strawberries:

And eating them of course:

AUSTRALIA ZOO

We spent a day at the Australia Zoo.  To be honest, we’re feeling a little bit “zoo-ed” out but you can’t go to the Sunshine Coast and NOT visit can you?  It helped that we met up with friends and they gave us plenty of “inside tips” and made it an enjoyable day.

Highlights included:

The Tiger Show:

Feeding an elephant:

And seeing my friends husband at work (he’s just started there):

UNDERWATER WORLD

We weren’t 100% sure whether to do Underwater World at Mooloolaba or the Sydney Aquarium.  We found a discount voucher online for Underwater World which made the entry free quite a bit cheaper so we decided to go there.  It was a fabulous day and we went with another family which also made it great.

We really enjoyed the seal show they put on.  It was hilarious and the seals SO cute!!!!

We’ve now left the Sunshine Coast and moved down to the Gold Coast where we have plenty of R&R planned as well as doing the theme parks. We’re here for 17 nights which I imagine will seem like quite a long time compared to all our moving.  Or maybe it’ll just fly by like the rest of the trip!