Day 7 off to Maryborough

Staying at Kangaroo point (again) was great, we knew our way around really well and could
comfortably walk to Southbank, the city and even the supermarket. However, the accomodation clearly had not been improved since our last trip three or so years ago. Upon arrival we had been given an 'upgrade' which turned out to be the same sort of room as we had last time but we had the added benefit of a constantly running bathroom sink tap, no light in the hall, a seat of our outdoor setting that could not be sat upon, dishwasher that didn't work, hair dryer that glowed blue with heat and smelt like it was about to explode and the DVD player that ate Lewis's brand new Christmas DVD (fortunately that was able to be retrieved). All significant problems (I know not really but a bit inconvenient and a slight damper on the stay). So we were ready to leave today.

We had planned to head to Mooloolaba to the Sea Life aquarium, we even had our Merlin passes which was a bonus so we could get preferential entry (than goodness as it seemed that every man and his dog seemed to be going there).
Here are some photos in the aquarium

I love sea dragons, they are so cool 😎 

Look at this big fish Mum!

Checking out the fish from the dome

And Aimee too

How cool are these upside down jelly fish?

The traffic was quite heavy today, this travelling north at Christmas time comes with a cost! We were actually really quite lucky as not long after we had headed through there ended up being a 20 

 delay on the Bruce Highway.

We stopped at Gympie for a roadside lunch break

Then it was onwards to Maryborough. We had visited here briefly as we came through from Fraser Island but today (even though everything was pretty much shut as it was a public holiday) we began to see some of the magic of the town. 

Maryborough is the home town of P L Travers the author of Mary Poppins and the town has made a huge effort to share this history and the general history of the town. We had a lovely walk around Queens Park and saw a range of the beautiful old buildings, I think it would be fantastic to do a tour and really have a look around some of the important historic sites.

We did grab a couple of fun photos

Life size Mary Poppins statue

We came upon this photo op by chance just as it started to rain

We read some interesting information about Queens Park and how people would get dressed in their finery to go to the park and it was not hard to imagine this with the beautiful rotunda for the band and all!

And after a big day of travel (& a 3 km run for mummy in silly Queensland heat!) we have reached the end of our day. Clearly a big day for these two.