A Bright Start to 2014

Unlike the previous couple of days, 2014 started with a bang...bright and sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky. As usual, we started the day with a beach walk...again from Sunrise Beach but this time heading north. We walked past Sunshine Beach until we decided it was time to head back. The advantage with heading this way was that we were able to take a detour up to the Sunshine Beach shops for an ice cream.

With so bright and sunny, we couldn't leave the beach today without getting wet. Sunrise Beach is a patrolled beach at this time of year so there was a small crowd there enjoying getting bashed about in the surf. After getting bowled over a couple of times we decided we had had enough surf and sun so we headed back to our apartment.

After lunch we were looking for something to do that would keep us out of the sun for a while so we set off for a drive into the hinterland. Using the nice new bypass roads, we avoided the worst of the traffic as we made our way to sleepy Cooroy. From there we just headed into the hills until we found ourselves at the top of Black Mountain where the views were fantastic (and there was a geocache there that I just had to find but it wasn't planned...I promise!). 

Looking back to the coast from Black Mountain

Looking south

Coming off Black Mountain, we continued driving around the hills enjoying the scenery. Eventually we came to Kenilworth which pretty much seemed to be asleep...except for the local policeman who was out with his radar. As I was in "sightseeing mode", my greatest risk was being charged with "obstructing traffic"... As it was now getting late in the, we headed back to Noosa for dinner.