Noosa.

 Brisbane is  in between the Gold Coast to the South and the Sunshine Coast to the North. If we had more time it would have been nice to see more of the coasts and the islands, but we took a day to drive up to Noosa about 130 kilometres north of Brisbane.

Luckily mum has a cousin who lives there so it was the perfect excuse to have lunch at the surf club, staring out onto the sparkling ocean. 

 After lunch we took a stroll into the Noosa National Park. 

hello, mum!

 unfortunately, I left my camera in the rental car and only had the photographic capabilities of an iPod...

 This actually felt like we were on vacation.

I wanna be on that sailboat. 

 We were told to look up and we would pretty much be guaranteed to see some wild koalas sleeping in the trees...but we only ended up with some cranks in our necks from looking up and looking like complete idiots.