Caloundra part two

 Besides being a nice day for a drive, we went to check out the war memorials.

One each on Kings and  Shelley beach and then Military jetty on Golden beach. Golden beach brings back memories. Some Chinese students came to Brisbane and they were taken shopping, one young guy stayed back bargaining in a store to get the best price and missed the group leaving. When he made his purchase, they and the bus were nowhere to be seen. He knew they were going to the Gold Coast so he hailed a taxi and asked for Golden beach, his English version of Gold Coast, not realising the Golden beach was in the opposite direction and a couple of hours away.

One of the organisers when they realised they were a student short, went through names and phone numbers, kids were from different schools so not all known to each other it took a bit of time. Rang and ended up speaking with the cabbie, who had to turn back, still cost the student $70. 

After Golden beach we then went to an airforce museum and found a Huey helicopter.

Doesn't look that scary now but I have flown in one of these with the sliding door open. I was hanging on for grim death and the crewie was walking around and told that I couldn't fall out as the air force keeps that from happening. I noticed he was strapped to the frame, I continued to do a white knuckle hold. It was an Army exercise so probably only up a couple of hundred feet.