Our next destination was Maleny where we stayed at the lovely Blue Summit Cottages. Our room was stunning as were the views down across the valley. We did a fair bit of exploring the local area whilst we were here.
This is a big foodie area, with one of the attractions being the Big Pineapple. I use the word "attraction" very loosely as the whole place looked very run down with not much there, not even a place to buy pineapple...
Nearby Montville is a very pretty village with interesting buildings, including the famous clock shop.
The Glasshouse Mountains National Park is a heritage listed park with cores of extinct volcanos forming its distinct landscape.
Not far from this viewpoint is Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve with its rainforest walk with abundant wildlife including lots of pademelon (rainforest wallabies).
And bush turkeys.
At Maleny Cheese you can watch them making the cheese (though it wasn't the tastiest cheese we have had).
Or down the road, sample some of the wines from Maleny Mountain Wines. We took a nice bottle of rose away with us.
The 90 metre Kondalilla Falls are spectacular and worth the walk down and back up again.
Final stop of the tour was Lake Baroon formed by a pocket dam and provides most of the water for the Sunshine Coast.
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