Job problems, the sea and Buderim Forest Park

So on Tuesday this week I popped by work to collect my rota for this week, only to find the restaurant shut with a sign saying "Closed until further notice". 

Not cool

Intrigued I rang the owner to find out they'd closed as she was selling the business and sorry, but I no longer have a job. After a week. Cut to 24 hours later, one jobseeking post on Gumtree, and I'm offered a trial at a pizza restaurant on the sea front. Another 24 hours on and I've bagged myself a new job! In hindsight it was actually a good thing to happen as it restarted my 6 months at one employer time limit! Looks like I'm here until at least the end of March! Incidentally, the restaurant I worked in before had given a girl a job the day before they shut down. That must have stung.

The new place is super busy, I'm a barman once again and the work is full on from start to finish. The time goes super quickly and again its awesome hours so I can spend the daytime surfing/exploring/skating/BBQ-ing/swimming.

With regards to swimming, Charlotte is literally terrified of everything in the Australian sea. So  I was massively impressed when she just dove on in.

After thoroughly inspecting the water for any signs of movement...

Today we went to Buderim which is about a 15 minute drive inland, it's here where we went on a rainforest walk. I managed to play in a waterfall which almost certainly had leeches/snakes in it.

 There were no Aussie animals to play with unfortunately. WE WILL FIND THOSE KOALAS SOON. It was about a 45 minute walk from the top to the bottom and it was a really good experience of the nature that was so close to home. 

We got the bus back down to Maroochydore where we stopped by to pick up some stuff for dinner. At home then made the extremely long trek of 1 minute across the road to the outdoor BBQ. I whacked on a couple of kangaroo burgers and watched them sizzle as the sun was setting. Great way to end a Sunday.

It's still going really well for us on the sunshine coast. We're finding living costs and food prices are pretty reasonable. There are 3 bed houses with pools here for £210,000 and sea front apartments from about £160,000.