Noosa and Mutton Birds

Today might be my final entry involving the mutton birds. I'm going to keep this post on the image side but if you want to, you can read about the birds here and here. 

For now it's time to flood you guys with pictures of Noosa national Park, a fav spot of mine that you're possibly, sick of me posting about :P I was definitely curious to go back to check in on the state of the bird bones and to my surprise a year+ later they're still decomposing. The park is not just about the bones though, we found cute banksia pods (like the guy below), cicada shells, a heart shaped rock (my favourite!) a beach ball made of twigs and some pretty cactus - which shocked me because it's not something I see much of in the wild! 

On to the pictures!

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Update on the Mutton Birds

A while back I blogged about the mystery of all the bird bodies who washed up on Australian and New Zealand beaches. I decided to go back to a spot which doesn't get much foot traffic and get an update. I was expecting to see, four months on, just bone remains but surprisingly it seems they're going through a slow process of decomposition. Sorry if this is morbid to some/most - just something that I find curious. 

I've also included some pretty nature shots to help make this post less weird :)

Onto the bird bodies...

and back to pretty nature!

I kid you not this is how the water looks, that view always takes my breath away :)

Can you spot a little dude over on the left somewhere? I wasn't quick enough to whip out my long lens (although I tried!)

Love you Noosa

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Devils Kitchen - Noosa National Park

A few weeks back we went exploring Noosa national park, I've been a handful of times but after each trip I wonder why I don't go more often - it's pretty silly to live somewhere so beautiful and not milk it or maybe only seeing it occasionally keeps the magic alive :)

By the way in that photo above Lowie's explaining a "movie" moment he saw where a family was scattering ashes and the ashes just blew back in their face - oops. Anyway back to the scenery!

Above is Alexandria Bay and is famous for being a nudist beach here in Australia :)

We saw turtles - can you spot him, he's just a pale-ish rectangle blob!

The rocky landscape on the left is Devils Kitchen - Karla is looking into the what we call the spooky cave, I jumped into that water once and I ended up stuck at the back of the cave crying, not sure if I had the courage to swim back out - I'm not the best swimmer and it was a such a scary moment for myself - feeling I was going to end up smashed against the rocks.  I also lost my camera - lucky it was only a point and shoot, I do remember being sad that I lost all my photos I took on that trip - it was my first valentines with Ben and we camped on those pebbles above :)

We even got our own little private ocean spa this time :)

 Sun setting = end of our adventure :)

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