We had a delightful day out on the water last Friday. A short drive over to the coast, then a 90 minute ferry trip along the Noosa river and a picnic on the shore. I took chicken sandwiches and some homemade coleslaw, buttered cinnamon loaf, black tea and water. We dined like the king and queen and we had a day out to remember.
Simple pleasures.
Simple pleasures.
We live in the area of Queensland called the Sunshine Coast and (for the international readers) if you look at your map, that is just above Brisbane, the capital city and half way up the east coast of our country. It's one of the fastest growing regions in Australia - everyone comes here for the climate. This area has traditionally been a tourist area along the coast, and where we live in the hinterland, more dairy and timber country. It's beautiful here. The temperature never goes below freezing, and rarely even close to it, and it has good rainfall, about 1900mm/75 inches a year. We have the major portion of that rain during the summer.
Noosa is seen in the rest of Australia as a great destination for a holiday and while it is beautiful, the locals know that it is around the other end of the coast - around Caloundra - that is best for fishing, swimming and just plain lazing around. The great thing about Noosa is that the Council there limits development and population. It's abut 10,000 off its population limit at the moment and there are no buildings built above the tree lines.
We enjoyed our day cruising along the river. On one side of the ferry there were multi-million dollar homes and on the other side, more simple dwellings with no electricity or water, built on the beach. We passed by pelicans that are returning to the coast now that the inland water of the past three years is beginning to dry up. There were quite a few houseboats, men standing and paddling on surfboards, men and women fishing, picnickers, tourists and locals all taking it in and slowly going about their day. We spent a grand day sitting back, relaxing and taking in the sights.
It did us the world of good to just stop everything and relax for the day. With the recent upheaval caused by Hanno's accident and the subsequent frequent trips out to visit the hospital, doctor, OT and pathologist, we needed a day such as this to just look around, refocus and enjoy where we live and each other.
It did us the world of good to just stop everything and relax for the day. With the recent upheaval caused by Hanno's accident and the subsequent frequent trips out to visit the hospital, doctor, OT and pathologist, we needed a day such as this to just look around, refocus and enjoy where we live and each other.
