Gold Coast and the Looney Langham

 Lugging 3 cases each on a train, a tram and finally a taxi to our holiday within a holiday was interesting.

Our home for the next week…

Great views from our apartment but the best part for Tim is this

For Dawn it’s this

And this

Lots of luxury at The Langham hotel next door

Including a Porsche Macan afternoon tea 🤷

And a very floral telephone box 🤷🤷

The sun rising on another Aussie adventure day

The Sky Deck at sunset

 Tim didn’t tell me that the sky deck had a glass viewing platform.

Needed a stiff drink to step onto it.

Got braver and eventually let go of the hand rail.

The views of the city and the sun as it set were awesome.

The sky deck is part of a hotel complex where two of the towers are connected by sky bridges, it’s like something from a science fiction movie.

It’s funny how your perspective of a city can change at night.

Cheers to being a tiny bit braver and to Brisbane!

Brisvegas (Brisbane) or bust!

 We’ve left Noosa and our trusty Mitsubishi behind now and are in Brisbane for a couple of days.

It’s been a bit of a culture shock being in a city again there are some impressive buildings on Brisbane’s skyline and along the river.

There are some lovely open spaces too.

Remember this one Carter? 

Tim’s been impressed with the architecture. Tonight we’re hitting the sky deck on The Star ‘s 34th floor, overlooking the river, for cocktails and dinner.

Messing about on the water…

 

Captain Insensible and his first mate Seawoman Useless hired a river cruiser and pootled down the Noosa river in our trusty Yamaha (of course) engined craft.

All went swimmingly well and we cruised through the waters taking in the views and soaking up the sunshine.

So we decided to head for The Pelican

and get a coffee by following the boat hire lads advice for mooring up, “just drive up the sand and drop anchor” easier said, than done! We were stuck in the shallow water, anyway Captain Insensible managed to weigh anchor and got his priorities right, jumped out of the boat and went to get coffee and biscotti.

Once they were drunk we had to figure out how to get out of the shallows, trusty Seawoman Useless got out the flow chart and the very short paddle provided for just this kind of situation. Captain Insensible, when he’d finished laughing said, “what’s that going to do?” Ever the problem solver he jumped into the water and pushed out the boat but then he had to get back in and the water was up to his chest!

“Just haul yer sen up!” cried Useless. First attempt resulted in him sliding under the boat - scary! Eventually Useless pulling and Insensible hauling he got back into the boat, cut, bruised and battered and laughing his head off! Reversed out into the Noosa Sound and set off as though nothing untoward had happened.

Almost us!😅

Nearly needed them! 

The kids piloting these could teach us a thing or two! 

A visit to First Aid, some wine and two enormous ice creams from Copenhagen’s later we were ready for an afternoon of body boarding…

More Bella Emberg than Pam Anderson Dawn wasn’t particularly successful but Arselehoff was amazing!

Definitely earned our Negroni today hic

Last night dinner at The Sails (posh) Dawn decided to try the famous Moreton Bay Bug

Tasted better than it smelled and looked.

Cheers to Noosa another place we absolutely loved.

Australia Zoo

 

Drove out of Noosa to the home of the crocodile hunter today

Fed kangaroos.

Stroked a koalas bum (it felt like sheep’s wool),

and watched one eat it’s lunch

Watched the crocodiles get theirs too but not quite as close up! 

Took lots of pics of snakes and critters for Leo.

Glad this was behind glass.