Category: Picnic Spots

  • Noosa Botanical Gardens and Lake MacDonald

    I’ve been struggling a tad of late. I’m behind in delivering my novel, and a few other bits and pieces are getting on top of me. After giving myself a talking to I’m beginning to get on top of things again. What has also helped is that I’ve been forced to take a couple of…

  • Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens

    These are not your average Botanical Gardens. Aside from the Sculpture Garden, there are no manicured lawns and exotic flowering plants. Instead, what you have is bushland – a place to breathe, and wander, and relax, and remember what it’s like to reconnect with nature after a hard week in the office where you’ve been…

  • Buderim Forest Park and Serenity Falls

      I’ve been bookmarking pictures of Buderim Falls (or “Serenity Falls”) since before we moved to the Coast. The pictures on instagram showed a lush rainforest with a relatively short (hello, I’ve seen the size of those falls in New Zealand…just saying) waterfall into a beautifully lit turquoise swimming hole. Of course I was keen…

  • Glasshouse Mountains – the Lookout

    Apparently Captain Cook, on his trip up the coast way back when, thought these mountains looked like the glass furnaces from back home in Yorkshire. Aye. Now, I’ve never seen one of these glass furnaces for myself – although I have been to Yorkshire – so I’m just going to have to take Captain Jim’s…