Once we had the next couple days set, we left to make our way to Noosa Heads where we would camp for 2 nights to get a little bit of beach time. On the way there, we stopped at the Glass House Mountains, which are little mountains (little for us that live in Colorado) made of volcanic rock. They are officially volcanic plugs, and the tallest is less than 400 m (1200 some ft.). They are called the Glass House Mountains because the guy that discovered them (can’t remember his name now) though they reminded him of the glass furnaces in his hometown of York (UK).Again we opted for the touristy thing: drive up to the lookout, take a look around, drive back down: it was way too hot to hike anywhere: today we were at over 30 C (86 F) and humid at 9 am already.
Once we were done with the “mountains”, we started the drive toward the coast: we didn’t have very far to go today, so we decided to take the little roads along the coast instead of the highway. We stopped in some cute little towns with weird names like Beerwah, Mooloolaba and some other crazy ones we most likely butchered when we tried to pronounce them.We arrived in Noosa Heads in the late afternoon and we decided to walk around a bit before going to the campground. Noosa is supposed to be the hip, rich town and the
place to go for some high end shopping. We are obviously not here for that, but mostly to spend a half day or so on the beach before we go back to cities. These will also be the last two nights of camping and we are perfectly fine with that. The holidays are in full swing here and the campgrounds are definitely booked up. The one we are staying in tonight is not big, and it’s full of kids and teenagers (yes, we are getting old and we really enjoyed how quiet the other campgrounds were compared to this one). A cute thing is that people put up lights on their tents, awnings, and campers: it is Christmas after all, even if we still don’t feel it since for us it’s summertime. I’ll have to try to take a picture tomorrow night before we leave.