Gismo Queen and her King

Day 16 - Burpengary East (Sunshine Coast)

Sunday morning fry up so thankfully Neill restoked and fuelled the fire when he got up for the dawn service and it was burning very cheerily by the time we emerged. Eggs, bacon, haloumi and baked beans all cooked on the fire - yum! Several cups of tea, then coffee and freshly  made Anzac biscuits occupied the morning by which time we had decided today was the day to drive to the Sunshine Coast so as not to get caught up in returning long weekend traffic tomorrow night. First stop was the at the Caboolture Showgrounds for the highlight of any camper’s travels - the dump point. Then it was up into the hills. The hinterland in this part of the world is just beautiful. Quite steep little mountains with amazing views back to the coast, lush almost rainforest style vegetation, and cute little villages. We aimed for Montville which was incredibly busy on a sunny Sunday afternoon and it was very hard to get a carpark! A sign for a devonshire tea caught our eye so we found a table and sat down - to then find out they had sold out of scones! We enjoyed some tasty treats and had a look around before Greg and I headed back down the hill to visit his old boss at their new place in Mooloolaba. They had bought a great house right on the canal and we enjoyed out visit and the boys enjoyed their catch up. Our camping group had already decided tonight was dinner out but we hadn’t anticipated so much trouble finding an open restaurant  on Anzac Day! Given our fondness for dumplings, we aimed for Coast Dumplings which was very casual and very busy! The food was indeed very good so we enjoyed that before rolling out of there and driving the 40 minutes down the freeway back to camp.

posted by Tracey @ 10:07 pm