The Arrival of Noah

Noah Elliott Williams was born on the 29/07/09 at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth Devon. We received the news via SMS in a tent in the early hours of the morning whilst in Noosa. Everyone was healthy and over the moon. Noah is my second Nephew with his older brother being Owen who is now two.
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Noosa

Noosa is a lovely little chilled spot, although for some reason it seems to contain all of the roundabouts in Australia!  It has a nice (although slightly upmarket) town by the beach which leads onto the headland.  We spent a really nice afternoon relaxing on the beach which I topped off with a swim.  The [...]

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Big Pineapple

Once again we come to one of those strange, tacky big things that the Aussies seem to like.  This time it’s a pineapple!
Just inland on the Sunshine coast is one of the major places to grow pineapples.  They obviously thought that this wasn’t exciting enough on it’s own and so erected a 10 metre high, [...]

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Glasshouse mountains & Kondalilla falls

On arriving at the Sunshine Coast the views were spectacular with the pristine beaches and ocean on one side and a mountain range on the other. We were soon to learn that the mountain range is called the Glass House Mountain range which consists of about 6 different peaks. Most of the mountains are inaccessible [...]

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Maroochydore & Our Anniversary

The next stop after Caloundra was another small coastal town called Maroochydore. Maroochydore consists of three parts all with equally difficult names to pronounce. We were staying at a campsite next to the beach (again). Each morning we were able to get up and walk down a short path with our cereal to sit and [...]

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