Back to the Conondale National Park today. This time with the Sunshine Coast Bushwalkers.
It was a good, honest, up and down walk, up to top of Mt Allan and back.
A highlight of the trip is of course an obligatory trip to the top of the fire observation tower, despite the apparent wishes of the relevant authorities and their insurance companies.
We're back down by noon, and across Booloumba Creek via the big stepping stones.
This one occupies another of the old Nambour sugar mill buildings, near the museum and the Coles shopping complex, and just across from our choice cafe of a few weeks ago: Sweet & Flour post
It's a similarly pleasant and recommendable spot.
I guess I'm a fully fledged senior these days, so it was time to check out things like today's 'Seniors Festival' at the Turf Club at Caloundra.
And it was fabulous fun! Clowns, Elvis impersonators, all kinds of other talent acts and fun stuff, as well as information stalls about U3A courses, magic health potions, and of course, care homes and the like.
Here are some videos of some of the performers:
I was out with the Sunshine Coast bushwalkers again yesterday, and it was another of bushwalker Jon's Mt Archer adventures, where we bush-bash and rock-hop up a creek bed for a few hours, and then come back down via a perilously steep fire trail.
I reported on a previous such trip a few months ago, here: June adventure
It was an excellent day out again, with some thrills and spills too. Most notably, bushwalker Peter got struck by a rather large rock dislodged by the person in front of me. I jumped out of the way and yelled 'ROCK!', as you do, but he wasn't able to escape it. Bushwalker Neralie, who's meritoriously kept her first aid certificates up to date, performed wonders on him.
Kingaroy, of course, is Australia's peanut capital. They grow various beans around the area too, but peanuts are what it's famous for.
Fittingly, there's a Big Peanut on the way into town, and you can buy 40 types of flavoured peanuts from the nearby Peanut Van.
The huge silos opposite the museum are full of peanuts of course.
Here's the museum, almost entirely about peanuts and their cultivation. They're pretty on-message here in Kingaroy.
And displayed prominently among all the other peanuts is ........ Jo Bjelke Petersen. If I was rude I'd draw conclusions from this. But local boy Sir Jo was of course Queensland's finest ever Premier. Must have been; they kept re-electing him, despite the ever-increasing corruption going on all around him.
This is the lookout on Mt Wooroolin. You get to see the town and its silos.
Plus the big Tarong coal fired power station, and a very large wind farm at Coopers Gap. Tarong is to be closed many years early, but wind's going from strength to strength.
On the subject of renewable energy, at Woolooga a bit later on, I passed an enormous solar farm too, which is set to be equipped with a very large battery soon.
Wooroolin's on the Kilkivan to Kingaroy 88km 'Rail Trail' bicycle track along the old railway alignment.
The other day it was my first visit to Bribie Island in nearly 20 years, I just calculated. The developed area is still confined to the southern tip, but I think it's expanded a lot.
The eastern bit of this, at Woorim, is still largely as I remember it, and there's a nice beach, with views across to the even bigger Moreton Island.
I think a lot of people visit Bribie Island, like a lot of other Queensland wild places, so they can hoon around in their 4WDs, terrorising beaches and sand dunes.
I prefer to just take in the fine views, like this one of the Glasshouse Mountains.
