After spending 10 days in Brisbane and a short jaunt to Melbourne with just Brendan and myself (thanks Grandma and Grandpa!) , we were off on our Queensland Coast adventure. The plan was to visit some friends and family along the way up to the Whitsunday Islands. We had no plan, and decided to wing it each day.
First rest stop at Noosa Heads, a beautiful beach town a couple hours north of Brisbane. Brendan and Page found a tidal pool to play in and some seagulls to chase.

Next stop was at Eumundi to grab a meat pie and play at the kids park. Page loved going in an out of the toy trains.

Our final destination of day 1 was at Hervey Bay to visit dear friends Nel and Nifty at their new house. We did a short at the beach at sunset.

Page couldn’t help but find rocks to play on!

It may be illegal in Queensland…

To the east of the agricultural Salinas valley is half of an ancient volcano known as the Pinnacles. The other half of the volcano stayed down in LA when the San Andreas fault started doing it’s thing millions of years ago. It was to the Pinnacles that Page and I journeyed for a weekend of hiking, climbing, ornithology, astronomy, spelunking and getting out of Momma’s hair.

We first explored the Bear Gulch caves. Page’s young eyes helped me navigate through the pitch-black caves after he forgot to bring a light. Just letting her walk in front of me saved be from plenty of shin bangs and any falls down bottomless pits. We followed them up by the Balcony caves on the Sunday. This time I brought a headlamp, which was fortunate because those caves were much more sketchy.

Page was very happy that caves are full of rocks. And rocks make loud noises when you bang them together.

Climbing is for nerds, but Page seemed to be interested.

Camping with Page is fun, and mostly easy, though there do come times when it’s very difficult to look after her and keep your camp stove from exploding in a ball of flame.

What you think Page is like

What Page is really like

We both missed Alex. There is something special about watching the full moon rise over a valley’s rim, but it would have been much sweeter if there had been three of us.