Finally was time to leave Burleigh Heads so decided to take a detour inland through Tamborine Mountain. It consisted of quite a few villages each with its own little tourist niche. We stopped for coffee midmorning and crossed the road to the German Cuckoo Clock Nest. It was walls and walls of cuckoo clocks and all the other types such as Grandfather clocks as well. It was a bit confusing as they all said different times so that there wasn't one huge cacophony every hour!
Then we went to the Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk. This was an elevated canopy walk with a cantilevered platform out into the top of the canopy looking down. OK, so I didn't quite get these two lining up, but you can see the huge height of the trees. Basically I took one looking up and the other looking down.
We swapped camera with a British couple and posed for the "together" shot!
Next it was off to look at the wineries. The first one was disgusting. We spat out the wine and left pronto while the bar staff were attending to - want can I say? - less knowledgeable patrons. We then went to Witches Falls winery and the wines were absolutely superb. We did a full wine tasting, poor Duncan had to spit as he was driving. However I did buy a $50 bottle to cellar so that he can taste it in a few years time. It was Syrah - they even called it that not Shiraz. I then asked was there a place where we could have lunch where the meals didn't come with chips. She directed us to Delivino where we had a superb lunch and I managed another glass of Chardonnay from Witches Falls.
We made it back to the airport with enough time for me to package up the marigold seeds from the wedding "favours" and spend the last of those huge coins that Aussie keeps using.
We arrived back in Auckland after midnight and went to the Heartland Hotel which was absolutely grotty - opening the toilet door with a spoon wasn't what we paid for.
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