{"id":1449,"date":"2009-11-05T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:50","slug":"mooloolaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Mooloolaba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures from Brisbane and Mooloolaba. Australia is great – lots of sunshine, nice people and endless beaches. Also abundant restaurants and coffee shops. Lots of seafood – especially in Mooloolaba. Some amazingly fit people as well as a whole lot of overweight people. Looks a lot like the U.S. in that respect. Way too much good food around.<\/p>\n

How did it get to be November already? We spent 8 days enjoying Brisbane – lots of great walks in that town. Now we have been in Mooloolaba for 4 days. We came up here to see our friends Intiaq.
\nThey left New Caledonia a week after we did and we have not seen them since, although we have been in contact by e-mail. We knew they were planning to come to Mooloolaba at some point to leave their boat and fly home to Switzerland for a few months. We did not know, however, exactly when they would arrive in Mooloolaba. We decided to sail up and hopefully rendezvous with them for a few days. It turned out to be a great plan as we sailed into the here within 1\/2 an hour of each other just by coincidence. It was a very nice reunion as they are always the most hospitable people. Karin immediately prepared us one of her beautiful gourmet meals and we have spent a fair bit off time with them. They are quite busy, however, getting ready for their departure which is going to be this Friday (tomorrow).<\/p>\n

Mooloolaba is a great little place with a beautiful beach and lots of restaurants and a great boardwalk. Yesterday the beach was filled with dozens of iron-men and women – all doing the most extreme exercise at the beach. Whole groups of incredibly fit men and women were doing a routine where they would first run into the raging surf and swim to a buoy and back, then run around a marked off section of the beach, then grab their surf-board and paddle out to an even farther buoy and ride the waves back, then run around the poles on the beach again, and finally grab a sea kayak and paddle like crazy out to an even farther buoy. After seeing one round of this Mark and I were sure they would all collapse on the beach, but they just rested for about 60 seconds and then set off and did the whole thing over and over again. I have never seen such extreme physical fitness. Boy did we feel fat and old! We plan to leave here today and sail the boat down to Scarborough – at the marina where Sabbatical III will spend the season.<\/p>\n

L.<\/p>\n

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A mouthwatering restaurant sign in Brisbane - rump anyone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Can
Can you figure out this street sign?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dockside
Dockside Marina in Brisbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exhausted
Exhausted tourist waiting for the ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Riverside
Riverside sculpture in Brisbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Design
Design in the sand from crabs on the beach in Mooloolaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Racing
Racing kayaks on the beach at Mooloolaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A kayaker club prepares to launch into the surf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The kayakers paddle out over the surf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The iron men and women prepare to launch their kayaks for one of multiple excursions through the surf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Check
Check out the coaches butt to see where they are<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Laura
Laura watches the action on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mark
Mark on the beach at Mooloolaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two of the phenomonally fit people on the beach at Mooloolaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures from Brisbane and Mooloolaba. Australia is great – lots of sunshine, nice people and endless beaches. Also abundant restaurants and coffee shops. Lots of seafood – especially in Mooloolaba. Some amazingly fit people as well as a whole lot of overweight people. Looks a lot like the U.S. in that respect. … <\/p>\n

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