The first day, we had to pick up our car. A wonderful Nissan Dualis (one could nearly say an SUV). We had even a car passenger for the first day, a finish guy called Mikey. Yes, you heard it correctly, neither German (50 % of all backpackers in Australia) nor French (48 %), but Finish, they are apparently in Australia as well. He only wanted to come until Noosa, where we brought him and went on a lookout to have a great view above Noosa. But we anyway wanted to see Noosa in the end, as we found there a couchsurfer, so the visit stayed quite short.
Afterwards, we went on to Maryborough, to Brandon and Amanda, our first couchsurfer on this trip. To make it short, we spent probably more time with them than sightseeing in Maryborough (a small colonial city with a nice market but otherwise not much to see). They had THREE border collis. One of them was a 9-months old puppy. The three were so active, but also really well educated, wherefore we spent the whole evening playing with the dogs and chatting to Brandon and Amanda.
After we had a walk through Maryborough the next morning, we went on to Stephen, our next couchsurfer in Gladstone. But this is another story…