Coolum Beach – Noosa – Wild Horse Mountain Lookout

Awoke early and enjoyed the 4:30am start to the dog walkers down to the beach. What a busy spot! All the dogs are happy to go and say hi and jump out of their cars and run of to say hi with all the other dogs. Big, small and anything in between. The only barking to be had, is the anticipation of finally reaching the water… what a cool spot to end up!

Enjoyed a relaxing breaky on the beach while Midget cavorted with all and sundry in her usual way! Then back to Harvey Norman to learn how to use our new TomTom GPS that is nothing like our old dependable Kmart special…

Not happy so went and returned out GPS. They said we were missing a piece of the packaging which was required if we wanted to exchange the unit. Went back to mum and dads and rummaged through all the bins to find the missing piece of plastic and returned to Harvey Norman to exchange it for a Mio. Happy now.

Since we were back at mum and dads thought we’d have lunch with them. Followed them down to Mooloolaba for lunch. I think they were more interested in seeing Midget instead of us! :-)

Now we were finally heading south. Ended up stopping at Wild Horse Mountain Lookout. As I’m still reading Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack, I am quite sure this mountain was so named afte the original collapse of Queensland by the first settlers when they just walked off the land and left what was left to the wild. Durack’s book mentioned their families’ round up of horses when they first arrived, and they drove them to Adelaide to market and made a fortune. There were wild horses in abundance, and we think there are still many here today as Steve walked around the pine plantation that we camped in and saw lots of horse poo. It was a nice quite spot to crash for the night; off the highway and away from all the truck traffic.