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Noosa (Cooroy) Botanical Gardens

jylan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:57:41 +0000

On the last day of our holidays at Noosa (a Saturday), my family and I drove to Cooroy to see the Botanical Gardens there. Although not as big or popular as the Rockhampton Botanical Gardens, it did have an auditorium and a good variety of different plants and flowers, something that is missing from Rockhampton’s Botanical Gardens.

This is the auditorium. To get an idea of the size, look just below the left columns and you can see a person.

An amazingly bright plant with pink in the middle. No modifications either.

These heart-shaped sprinklers were used extensively throughout the gardens.

Another strange flowering plant.

Anyway, we walked around for a couple of hours and then we had lunch. While we were eating some fairly tame ducks and geese came up to see if we would give them something to eat.

While walking along my mum saw this crow throwing rubbish out of the bin in search of food.

These two geese were the least afraid of us. The food they’re eating was left there by someone who had eaten before us (I think).

In this post I have put captions underneath each photo, so let me know if you like it like that.

[tags]noosa, cooroy, botanical gardens, holiday, travel[/tags]

Walking at the Noosa Headland National Park

jylan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:36:24 +0000

While we were down in Noosa we did a few walks on the Noosa Headland National Park. At the start of the track they had lots of information signs with clever designs. There were also lots of little freshwater streams running beside and over the paths, probably as a result of the flood-inducing rain that Noosa had received before we arrived. There were great views all along the track, so I took quite a lot of those type of shots.

One of the beaches that we discovered on the walk had thousands of medium-sized smooth rocks all over it – you can see a Contrasting Sharply photo of them as well as the ones below. An amazing thing about these rocks is that they were really bouncy. I threw one of them as hard as I could at the other ones and it must have bounced about 8 times!

Geocaching at Noosa

jylan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:00:54 +0000

Ok, geocaching in the Noosa/Noosaville area was a bit of a disappointment because I couldn’t find any, even though I went looking for 4 of them. In case you’re interested, I looked for the following caches: James Duke Bridge, Wallace Park, Look in Ernest and Weyba Not Look Here #4.

I think I’ve said it once before, but I’ll say it again: Geocaching is a great way of finding those hidden spots that only the locals know about. If you want to find out more about the sport, go to geocaching.com, the home of geocaching.

Holidays at Noosa

jylan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:27:18 +0000

The reason I haven’t posted for 15 or so days is because my family and I, along with my cousins and there family, have been down in Noosa enjoying the school holidays. Instead of trying to write about everything I did in one post, I’ve decided to just write about the more interesting things that my family and I did in three separate posts. Those three posts will cover my geocaching experience, our day at the Botanical Gardens and the walks we did around the Noosa Headland.

I should be posting about them in the next hour or so. BTW, the resort we were staying at was called Coral Beach Resort.