Maroochydore
Travel Blogs from Maroochydore, Australia
White Sands and Speedos
... friend Christina put it, a vacation from a vacation. So of we went with Julie, the mum in the house I'm living in, to Maroochydore. It took me and Christina about eleven tries to get the name right. I think it sounds like some sort of weird squawking ...
Coochy Coochy Moochy
Not much happening today. We had a walk around town and to the beach before heading off to Michael and Desley's. These are the couple we met in Vietnam. Can't believe that's 3 months ago already! They live in a small town called Maroochy River about ...
Crikey...Another Zoo!
... 's dreams. I can understand what he was after. He was after an enclosure giving freedom to a range of animals bringing Africa to Australia. A big open area... A little like Jurassic Park I guess. It's just a shame it felt a little bit like 3 giraffes, 3 ...
Pronounced Ma-Roo-Chee-Door
... ;2 hours of silence on the coach. I enjoyed most of the film on show and was only dissapointed when we arrived at Maroochydore early - the driver had been going at it like a racing car apparently. On arrival at the town of Maroochydore we were ...
Maroochydore – rescuing our little coffee ma
... bus brought us to the Greyhound bus stop. The Greyhound picked us up soon later. Only seconds after the Greyhound arrived in Maroochydore we got picked up by the YHA courtesy bus. German Massarbeit! We felt a bit tired, hence were looking forward to a ...
Meine Ankunft in Maroochy...
... in Maloolobahs Friday Club solte mir Recht geben. Haette ich hier nicht Jobtechnisch einchecken muessen, ich haette Maroochydore mit all den Sportmoeglichkeiten, der Strandpromenade mit der Kulisse der Glasshouse mountains schlichtweg uebersehen. Ich bin ...
Taming wind and wave
... . on tuesday (the second day we experienced TC Hamish) i had to work down at the cafe in cotton tree, maroochydore, so i had thought to bring my camera in hopes of capturing the conditions at the nearby cotton tree ...
Maroochydore and Mooloolaba
The life in Maroochydore is very relax. The people here are starting the work after having jogged round 9:00 am and leave round 5:00 to go surfing for the men or taking the baby out alongside the beach for the women ... hard life ... The bay is pretty ...
Rock 'n Roll Rain
Jaaa...es gibt sie also doch noch. Sonne pur - strahlend blauer Himmel und der Hautkrebsfaktor verfielfacht :-) Wie passend, dass ich gestern einen Urlaubstag hatte und den Hochsommertag nach diesem Unwetterwochenende am Strand geniessen konnte. Fuers ...
Maroochydore
Maroochydore The drive from Hervey Bay to Maroochydore was scenic and busy. I stopped in at Noosa, although couldn't get a car park anywhere near the beach or the main shopping district. It was Sunday and it seemed the entire city was out and about. The ...
Ein Lebenszeichen
... Ich bin derzeit an der Sunshine Coast, die sich etwa von Noosa im Norden bis Caloundra im Sueden erstreckt. Das Kuestenstaedchen Maroochydore hat wie so ziemlich jeder Ort hier einen Namen mit Aboriginee Ursprung. Es gibt hier natuerlich keine Altstadt / ...
Surfers Paradise to Maroochydore
... him back! It was a fantastic day out and the cherry on the cake was seeing the Big Pineapple on the way to our hostel that evening! We stayed in Maroochydore, a coastal town close to the zoo and not too far from our next destination of Noosa. ...
Maroochydore - Our first ever surf lesson
Today is sunny again. After the breakfast we took the boogie boards and went to the beach. After 2 hours of boarding we had a break at a little café place. We used the break to think about a proper surf lessons. The school was nothing more than a van ...
Farewell Aus
There hasn't been any blog updates for over a month because basically nothing has been happening. We have really struggled to sell the van and we had it advertised for over 5 weeks. In the end it did go to a bloke from New Zealand and we got quite a ...
Maroochydore
Moving on from Fraser Island I stopped off for one night in Maroochydore near Brisbane to visit some relatives. I also visited some other relatives on the outskirts of Brisbane for one night. On the way into Brisbane I also stopped off at Australia Zoo. ...
Just Maroochying around
... We have hired a car and traveled quite a bit around the local area, mainly looking for a van. They are quite scarce around Maroochydore but we think we have found a suitable one near Brisbane. More to follow in a later entry. Yesterday we saw our first ...
Sunshine Coast (and Bundaberg)
... development there has been since we were last here (of course, that is over 20 years ago so what can you expect!!) Back at Maroochydore in the afternoon the surf had picked up, the wind had gone and the sun was out - it was perfect - so we ...
surfing
... At 9 AM we departed the island by boat. When we got back to the mainland we boarded the bus and continued north a couple hours to Maroochydore. This was a great spot on the beach were met up with our surf team. They prepared us a BBQ. Next we suited up in ...
Going Down the Coast
Today we are in Maroochydore, on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. It is about 4 hours from Brisbane from here and we are going to stay a couple of nights. We have started to call this the Not So Sunshine Coast as it has been really quite fowl the last ...
Maroochydore and my birthday!!
... , and Happy Birthday being sung down the phone by my parents as I stood in a service station halfway through the journey!! On arriving in Maroochydore, we had to walk to the hostel, which was not easy due to lack of sleep and food, but we made it in ...
The Ashes ! We got some tickets.....
Just a quick update to say we have managed to get some tickets for Australia v England next Friday at Woolloongabba, Brisbane for the Ashes. Should be pretty cool. Just got to sort out how we are gonna get there ...
Back to Maroochydore
... ’t imagine trying to get down if the rocks were slippery. But it was exciting and successful, and my highlight of Maroochydore. As I trekked further south, I made a couple of stops that will not get their own blogs. First, I stopped back ...
Parting friends
... with some zzzzs, with an early night and I left the next day, with a flight to catch in 2 days. Gem and I were both a bit nervous, having been living in each other's pockets for the last 4 months, but we parted in Maroochydore and i was off on my ...
A short time in Oz
... back in the warmth again, Although the weather in New Zealand wasn't bad it was sometimes a bit chilly. I then flew up to Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast for the weekend. At first it seemed a really bad name for the place as it was raining heavily ...
Christmas
... to Val, the boys and the backpackers. More than a few tears shed I can admit! If I could stay anywhere, Maroochydore would be a fine place to stay!(i'm I keep saying that!) But onwards and homewards. Next stop Darwin for NYE. ...
Family
... . This park had the most modern toilet block I've ever seen ( dad called it the super block). COOPERS AMAZING FACT: ( I'm struggling here) Maroochydore is the sixth town mentioned in the song, " I've been everywhere". COHEN AND JUDES BIG THINGS. We had a ...
The Sunshine Coast - Paradise on Earth
Just an hour's drive to the north of Brisbane and you hit one of the sunniest parts of the world called the 'Sunshine Coast'. Up there you will find an interconnection of beaches that run along the shoreline - typically, it's a veritable surfers ...
Octobre - Noosa, Maroochydore, Coolum
... avons decider de sortir un peu de Noosa pour decourvrir une autre partie de la Sunshine Coast. Nous sommes alles passer un 2 jours a Maroochydore (40 km au sud de Noosa). Karl a pu essayer de nouvelles vagues alors que de mon cote je ...
Just like home
The place we have been looking forward to the most! Our family's long time friend, Valerie, opened a hostel here about a year ago. She runs it with her son Alex - who I haven't seen for many years. It was so great to see them - just like family! Their ...


