Hey, you guys! Phoebe here from Little Grey Box. Now, Matt and I are in our home state
of Queensland here in Australia and we are in one of our favorite places
Yeppoon! So we want to show you guys why we love this place so much!
Ross: Just feel how good, how free it feels, how great it feels to finally have let go of that,
got it out of your life. It doesn't serve you anymore.
Phoebe: So we just did an amazing
letting go ceremony with Ross who runs the wellness retreats. You know, last
year was really hard year for me personally and it felt so good today to
just you know pick up my little shell and put all of the difficulty and the
challenge and the pain and the hurt all of those feelings into one thing. To walk
through that labyrinth and just leave it there. When I came out the other side, you
know, Ross gave me a big hug and I was just smiling ear to ear like I am now
because it feels so good to get rid of that and to make room in your life for
all of the things you DO want in it it's this you know this conscious creation
you know being aware of the power you have.
Stacey: I think the more we can connect to where
the food comes from and eat food that is basically more seasonal, more whole
more local, more real that's when, you know, we see profound you know changes in our health.
Phoebe: What I love about this is it is connecting you
with the food I mean quite often there is speaking gap between us and where our
food comes from but here we are eating this beautiful, fresh, locally
grown food and later today we're going to see where it was grown and I'm telling you
right now you can taste the difference. This curry is SO good!
Dan: The Gum Tree can be detrimental to trying to grow vegetables. So instead of growing
food we grow ideas about how to grow food so we're setting that
up as like a kind of a community space.
Phoebe: We are having the most amazing day we
have eaten amazing food we've listened to some great workshops we've had a tour
of the farm out here, we've just learned a ton and we reconnected with nature and the animals!
I didn't know this was the thing you could do at Yeppoon and I am so grateful
that we got to be here for it feels like it was meant to be.
Phoebe: The amazing chef Mel has just taken us through all of her vegan cooking tips
that was a fantastic session I have tried or considered being vegan before
but it's a hard thing for me to wrap my head around what I would do so it's
really cool to hear a professional chef tell you, you can make delicious
food. But, look, she has made us these amazing... oh my god mouth is watering.
You guys know how much I love food! So we've got a lettuce cup, in there is the most
beautiful roasted sweet potato with some nutritional yeast flakes
which is meant to be cheesy. She made a lentil mix and then she made
sour cream out of cashews somehow oh my goodness and I just wanna say before I
eat this all of this obviously maybe not the pulses but that's those fresh food
elements they were growing on the farm that we were at earlier today. It's this
connection between what you're eating and the life force behind what you're
eating and what you're putting into your body! Enough talking. More eating.
Learning to live intuitively and making those changes in our lives changed our lives
it made us different people and that led us here right now filming this in Yeppoon,
talking to you guys and we just wouldn't have had any of that and it
doesn't matter what your beliefs are or anything like that you know just trust
yourself and love yourself and those are just some simple things you can do to be
happier in your life and today has been so affirming for that I've had the best
time feeding animals feeding myself with great food meeting some really lovely
people. Ross who runs all of this is just an incredible man
and seeing him today was just so affirming for me and the letting go
ritual all of that stuff matters. All of that stuff makes a difference to your life.
Oh, you guys, that yoga session was amazing. It was so grounding and relaxing and it really
just clears your mind something I struggle with I have the busiest
internal monologue so that was beautiful and now it's time for breakfast and look at
this vegan feast, oh my goodness!
That brings our time at the Rosslyn Bay Wellness Retreat to an end you
guys I have had the best time. The session with Dr Gillian Ross was so so
good she took us through these amazing guided meditations and as someone with a
very anxious mind, a very chattery mind I found that meditation has been a
really big help for me and I just want to say there's no shame like I feel like
there's a bit of stigma and you know doing some soul work and some soul
searching but there's no shame in working on yourself to be happy and I
had to be really honest with myself a couple of years back and it is totally
changed my life so if you've ever felt the same I recommend you know it's not
about religion or giving anyone money or anything like that it's just about
tapping into your heart and finding ways to be happy simple as that and the
Wellness Retreat up here is a fantastic place to start. Now it's time for lunch
we are at The Waterline Restaurant here at Keppel Bay Marina. We're gonna go inside and
have something to eat I am so hungry after all that meditating.
I had this last time I was here, it was so I've been dreaming of it I couldn't order
anything else!
Phoebe: This is the Yeppoon Lagoon. I had heard that they were building this and I
didn't really know what to expect. This place is awesome
and you guys I've had my fair share of Lagoon experiences! There's a great
shaded area behind us for the kids with some nice shallow water and some
little water fountains, there's loads of lifeguards on duty though as you can see
the water is really really beautiful and clean and there's this infinity pool and
you're looking out to the ocean you can see Pumpkin Island and the
Keppel's and it's just a beautiful spot. It's so good to see a place like Yeppoon
do such a great job and it's just another feather in the cap, another
reason I love this place! We've worked up a bit of an appetite swimming around
the lagoon and now we're here at Vue because we're going to do some street
art stuff and they have an amazing mural here so two birds, one stone! Let's eat!
Matthew said to me, "it really hurts me to have to film you and not eat any of the
food and watch you eat the food!" That's made me really happy. Now
Matthew you're gonna have to sit there and watch me eat the most delicious
chocolate tart! The first time I visited Yeppoon, I had no idea what to expect
and one of the things that took me by surprise was how much amazing street art
there is here. So as you drive around town you're gonna see lots of very
vibrant murals a lot of them are going to be reflecting some really Australian
things like the fish behind me some of them celebrate local heroes some of them
celebrate our local indigenous culture they're just fantastic!
Alright so we are at Bluff Point, you guys, and we are about to go for a little walk up
there because at The Bluff Point Lookout you can often spot Turtles! Oh my gosh
they are so cute and this area of course is home to quite a few Turtles who nest
around the area so it's really cool to be able to see some let's get up there.
Usually you can spot Turtles, today we haven't been able to see any yet but
look if you're coming I would still say come and check it out because last time
we were here we did see some and the locals who came through just before said
that they had seen some just yesterday so they are here and if you love turtles
I do recommend coming to check it out and even if they aren't here... look at this!
It's so beautiful! So another great thing that you'll notice as you move around Yeppoon
and the local areas is just how lovely the locals are! I mean, as we're going
around people are saying hello to us everyone's like hello hello how are you
going how are you going and I mean it's Queensland so we say hello too. It's just
like a sense of community and you will really feel that when you come here and
you visit so don't be afraid to say hello to people in the local area and
strike up a chat and have a yarn! Oh my gosh, yarn, that is your Australian word for
the day it's also a very distinctly Queensland word I feel and it just means
to have a chat but it's kind of more deep and meaningful than just a regular
chat a yawn is like storytelling and really getting to know someone so yeah
be sure to make yourself a part of the local community say hello, have a chat, have a
yarn, enjoy yourself! Welcome to this part of the Internet and
my amazing penthouse apartment! WHAT?! Okay it's not mine but the guys at
Capricorn Enterprise hooked us up they organised for us to stay here at
Villa Mar Colina in Yeppoon and it is so beautiful
I really want to show you guys around so YouTube welcome to my crib okay, enough
of that. So this is the kitchen, this is incredible and this is huge I mean I
think Matt and my first apartment was the size of just this kitchen. Huge fridge
pantry everything you could need for cooking. Now behind you are all the other
bedrooms, I'm not going to show you those because we're
just going to focus on the main areas but look at this living room!
Phoebe:We are starting off our day here at the Keppel Bay Sailing Club now they have a
beautiful Beach Club Cafe. I didn't know about this place
it's relatively new. Well, for us it's relatively new last time we visited it
wasn't here and now it is and it is right on the beach this will be the
perfect spot to come down in the morning and watch the Sun come up over the
islands while you have a coffee while you eat it's just it doesn't get any
better.
You know what's better than one coffee to start the day? Two coffees! We are
getting our two coffees today from Two Sister and this is the last stop on our
Yeppoon Trip we are about to jump in the car and head out to Carnarvon Gorge
which I am really excited for we have never been before another thing for us
that is brand new so exciting and that is it from us and I really hope this
video has shown you a little bit about what makes Yeppoon so special it is
the people and saying hello to everyone you meet on the street to striking up a
conversation and making new friends it's that beautiful approach to life that
wellness you know connecting with such beautiful outdoors area getting back to
the ocean breathing that fresh air you see turtles you see dolphins you see so much
beautiful wildlife there's amazing food here it's just a fantastic destination.
If you're ever lucky enough to visit well done to you because this place is
magical. Now look you guys if you don't already be sure to subscribe and say
hello in the comments below have a great weekend and I will see you next week
Love Ya! Phoebe & Matt x