Sunshine Coast Adventure Series

This last weekend is the reason

why we decided to move to the Sunshine Coast.

What was meant to be a weekend pottering around at home - due to the less than average weather forecast - turned out to be an awesome camping and 4wding adventure weekend.

At 4PM on the Saturday Kaitlyn and I booked our campsite - Amamoor Creek Camping Area. We hit the road just before 5PM with Frodo packed with fridge full of food and drink, bag of our clothes and box full of camping goodies (pre-pocked army box of lights, tent and other tings) plus sleeping mat. 645PM and we were in camp, tent up and mat self-inflating. We whipped out the leftover food and mooched around the FJ watching the last of the sun disappear. 8PM and we were snug in the Mont watching the “Dark Knight Rises” on our Tablet.

Look at that turnaround time!

7AM Sunday brings with it a packed tent and a coffee from the local cafe in Amamoor town. Within the next 45minutes we were off the tarmac and onto the gravel.

For the next 4 hours we drove all over Imbil State Forest and Lake Borumba via relatively easy to medium 4wd tracks.

We were home, car unpacked and washed by 3PM. Beach walk at 4ish and then nestled in for a night of youtube and dinner from around 6ish.

While we were downloading on the drive back home I made the comment, described above, about this is why we decided to move from Brisbane up to Mooroochydore area. Beach, hiking, 4wding and camping is our main life’s hobbies now and it suits us so nicely.

Anywho - this Blog or series of Blogs is called the Sunshine Coast Adventure Series. So the reason for this title is because Kaitlyn and I have decided that we are going to do a heap of micro-adventures in and around where we live with a travel time of max 2hrs. The point of this is to test all of our gear and practice this whole vlogging malarkey and get more comfortable on the trails / tracks. This is going to build up to something we’re working on in the background. Sometimes we’ll be joined by friends and Family - a la the weekend before we had my old man and some of his friends come along to Booloumba Creek Camping Area for a few nights - where we’ll take Samwise the Ambush 02, what we’re calling our slow and heavy touring, and then other weekends it will just be Frodo and what we can fit in her - which is our light and fast weekends.

Exciting times ahead!