Beerwah Stories


Crickey!

Beerwah is a town in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and home to the Glass House Mountains and Australia Zoo. The Glass House Mountains are very impressive volcanic rock formations that were once upon a time buried by sandstone that has now eroded away leaving a series of magnificent peaks poking out of an otherwise flat landscape. They are sacred to t...


Strawberry picking in beerwah

We have spent the last three weeks picking strawberries on trollies that look the cross between something you would see a thai person selling stuff on and the car out of the Flintstones.It's pretty good though we just sit down all day and pull ourselves along by our feet picking as we go.We are only getting four days aweek at the mo and get the weekend ...


Van Troubles

What a week. Thursday afternoon I purchased my very own 1991, beat up old, Mitsubishi L300 van. It’s white with scraped-off remnants of an electrical company logo on the side and cow-print seat covers. After spending some time with Anna, the seller and local traffic cop, I drove my new used vehicle to Matilda’s the local 24 hour petrel place for a fi...


Zen Garden

What a long day! After staying up late hassling my bank to extend my withdrawal limit (so I can buy a van), and getting up early so I could call Paul at an reasonable hour (he wasn’t home), and then riding the bumpy and brisk 5.5 kilometers to work, I began my duties raking the Zen garden. My raking talent, which was kept suppressed until yesterday, m...