GoOzGo.com.au

Wed., March 2 - Found out this morning that wireless internet at this campground has been down since the floods .....It would have been nice to know that when they sold us the card two days ago!  We got our $20 refund then went for a lovely early morning walk on the beach for about an hour.  It started to rain just as we got back to our home on wheels.  Footnote:  The original plan was to email Trevor & Jane (Go Oz Go) a few days ago.  We booked our motor home through them and  they had invited us to have breakfast with them on the Noosa River while we were here.   Since we couldn't contact them, we decided to head a little south and stopped at Coolum Beach about 30 minutes south of Noosa.

We are staying at the Coolum Beach Caravan Park (right on the beach) and a beautiful beach it is.  Also, we finally have half decent internet access.

Got in touch with Trevor and Jane.  They came down to meet us at the park for a drink.  A wonderful couple who operate GoOzGo.com.au.  They were extremely helpful with planning our trip to Australia and we would highly recommend them to anyone.  It was so nice to finally meet them after all the emails.  We will definitely keep in touch and book our next Oz adventure through them.  Tomorrow we will head back north a bit to see Noosa National Park and Noosa Beach.

Just a little summary of what we have learned:
Here it's OK to walk around barefoot on the street or in your local super market.
Round abouts actually work good especially when you learn how to negotiate them in rush hour traffic.
With the currency, the bills are plastic coated and are logically sized largest to smallest and nicely coloured like Canada.  Coins are another story .... the silver coloured coins are .50, .20, .10 and .05 (no pennies so rounded up or down) and are in descending size.  But that 50 cent piece is a big one!  However, the $2 gold coloured coin is smaller than the $1 coin .... no one can figure out that one.

Tomorrow is another day.  We are on the countdown to our final days here ..... time has gone by too quickly.