Coonarr beach and Kinkuna national park

It was an otherwise lazy weekend until Brett my good friend from Sunshine coast decided to drive up and hangout with me for the weekend. We had a beautiful dinner at the Grunskey sea ford restaurant on Saturday followed by a movie, wonder, which we thoroughly enjoyed - well who would not enjoy a movie with Julia Roberts in it. We woke up late on Sunday and was wondering what to do, and decided to visit the Coonarr beach and the Kinkuna national park.



Coonarr beach is a 30 minute drive from my place. We passed several farms from sugarcane to water melons and reached the Coonarr beach.



Coonarr beach is an isolated beach. Other than us there was another family enjoying their Sunday noon on the beach. We strolled along the beach for sometime looking at the pretty little sea shells and flowers rising against the salinity. After our little stroll we decided to go back as the tide started to rise and the sea got murky.





Leaving the Coonarr beach we left for the Kinkuna national park.



This park is webbed with 4 wheel drive dirt tracks. We took the track to the beach. It was a fun bumpy ride with occasional puddles and lots of arid trees and marsh land besides the road.



Kinkuna beach has day access areas and camping areas. You need to get a permit to access the camping area. We took the path to the day access area. This was yet another secluded beach. Other than us there were 2 other lots of people on the beach. The beach was bordered by a row of pine trees, the fallen foliage of which provided a good cushion to lie down and relax, and that's exactly what we did watching the horizon and enjoying the fresh sea breeze.


Just when we were about to leave, I noted this bug skeleton on a pine tree bark and according to Brett it's an exoskeleton of a cicada. Never knew they shed their skeleton!



Location: Coonarr Beach Rd, Coonarr QLD 4670, Australia

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