Car Test!!!

Car Test!!!

Wao!! Went to Mt Tamborine yesterday and Lake Samsonvale today. These two road experiences were terrific challenges for the car haha...

Yesterday on Mt Tamborine, the slopes were like 14% steep and the car had a hard time climbing them but a fun time going down them, Mt Tamborine was filled with little houses and shops around with a lot of natural parks for explorations but we did not venture so far in, most of the time is where the car can stop and park and within walking distances. By the time we went there it was afternoon so we had time for a lavender shop and some small town shopping and some scenery views here and there but nothing really astonishing. Went to search for a Nut shop where they sold all kinds of Macadamia, managed to find the flavour Lishan wanted and bought some others to try... OMG!! ITS HORRIBLE!!! The sour cream ones are disgusting, preferred the chili ones haha =D Alright the car, haha the car really had a lost of power when its in lower gears, and the brakes are like shit most likely due to the steep slopes... well but the car made it eventually =) and for the first time the car went to 370km with one full tank...

Today at Lake Samsonvale, it was all about winding roads, worst than the NUS area there... there is this swirly area but here it was worst, and the road limits were like 80km/h hoho, well no worries, I only kept at 50km/h while driving and turning haha safety first and I don't really trust the car so... HAHA!! but it was mostly motorbikes I see in that area maybe they like to travel such roads instead of the normal highways, who knows.. Well.. in this area the GPS was not very helpful, most of the places I keyed in where out of reach due to mountain roads only suitable for 4WDs and some had to walk all the way to the top of the mountain just to reach so instead we looked for "Lookouts" around the area and headed for about four of them and on our way back had our first sunset viewing hehe!! Initially I wanted to had it at the last lookout but the sun was taking very long and the view was not very nice so we gave up and head back and on the way down I remembered we missed one of the lookout so I turned into it and had the chance to have our first sunset together =)... All these lookout were terrible though, every one of them were like blocked by the surrounding trees and felt like watching a far distance through a window... only two of them had the nicest view with unblocked or rather a wider unblocked view of the natural scenery =) The journey back home was long, and 90% of it was inside the mountain so swinging left and right alone in the dark for like 50km before reaching some civilization... I wonder what would have happened if I had went up there with my last quarter of petrol instead of topping full tank before I head up... I guess we would have stranded up there =S but I knew this would have happened so I topped it up hehe...

The whole holiday were mostly about exploring areas around Brisbane and I have enjoyed all these especially with my Baobei taking photos and enjoying herself.. I wish to find more of such areas but maybe with some more homework done before I just depend on my dumb GPS for suggestions and road recommendations.. Alright school is starting soon and I've got to bring myself back to my books and start focusing on my studies, this time I need to get a higher GPA than last semester =S all the best to me!! =D

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