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Noosa (Cooroy) Botanical Gardens

On the last day of our holidays at Noosa (a Saturday), my family and I drove to Cooroy to see the Botanical Gardens there. Although not as big or popular as the Rockhampton Botanical Gardens, it did have an auditorium and a good variety of different plants and flowers, something that is missing from Rockhampton’s Botanical Gardens.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 1
This is the auditorium. To get an idea of the size, look just below the left columns and you can see a person.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 6
An amazingly bright plant with pink in the middle. No modifications either.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 4
These heart-shaped sprinklers were used extensively throughout the gardens.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 3
Another strange flowering plant.

Anyway, we walked around for a couple of hours and then we had lunch. While we were eating some fairly tame ducks and geese came up to see if we would give them something to eat.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 2
While walking along my mum saw this crow throwing rubbish out of the bin in search of food.

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These two geese were the least afraid of us. The food they’re eating was left there by someone who had eaten before us (I think).

In this post I have put captions underneath each photo, so let me know if you like it like that.

[tags]noosa, cooroy, botanical gardens, holiday, travel[/tags]

1 Week Working Holiday in Hervey Bay

First I better say that I wasn’t the one doing the working, my mum was. Anyway, from Saturday 23rd June to the Monday 2nd July we’ve been down in Hervey Bay keeping ourselves busy. I took my GPS down too, and I found about 8 geocaches (see the geocaching website for more details on geocaching). Unfortunately a geocache called “Whale of a Time” had been vandalized by someone, so I had to pick up all the stuff that was lying around and put it back in the container. The fact that a few inches of rain had fallen didn’t help matters.

Maryborough

On Thursday 28th June, Maryborough was our destination. We had heard of a river cruise boat that took people for cruises on the Mary River, so as soon as we arrived at Maryborough we went to the tourist information office to find out about it. When that was done, off we drove to the Maryborough Sailing Club to await the boat. Once on the boat, the captain (see the picture below) started telling us about the Mary River’s history. An enjoyable hour passed before we were dropped off again. Lunch was next: for that we walked over to the Botanical Gardens opposite the boat club. Although the gardens didn’t have any taps (what was the council thinking), it was still very nice. After lunch, we drove up to the library where we stayed until it was time to go back to Hervey Bay. Below are the two photos.

Mary River 1

Mary River 2

Fraser Island

On Saturday 30th June, we went on a trip across to Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island. Adults and children were half price, so we got a good deal that included morning and afternoon Tea, lunch, tours and lectures plus the boat trips there and back. We didn’t see any dingoes, although we came very close to seeing one as some people who were walking behind us were surprised when a Dingo walked out in front of them. On the boat trip back, they showed us the photos that they took. Below are some photos of Fraser Island.

Fraser Island 1

Fraser Island 2

Fraser Island 3

Fraser Island 4

[tags]Holiday, Hervey Bay, GPS, Geocaching, Maryborough, Botanical Gardens, Mary River, Fraser Island, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Dingo[/tags]