Noosa, Australia Travel Blogs

Finally a day of full on sunshine and we're in the right place to make the most of it. We dump our bags at the YHA and head to the beach which is similar to Bondi with lots of people and big waves. We bump into Kate and Woody who we met at Ningaloo and ...

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas
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... I spent the afternoon walking through scenery that is reminiscent of the Abel Tasman. In fact, I almost forgot that I was in Australia until I heard a rustling in the bush, looking to find a 3 foot lizard staring right back at me! It startled me initially ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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... Fraser Island (world's largest sand island) which was a difficult decision but decided we can't do everything. Anyway drove into Noosa which is basically water everywhere you look - sea, inlets, creeks, etc. Arrived and got picked up by our accommodation ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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... -lakes.com.au/). The Noosa Lakes Resort is set on 7 landscaped acres and offers 186 beach house style apartments featuring Noosa's largest pool complex...one of the pools was right outside our balcony (PICS). This wasn't quite as extravagant as it ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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... ferry we saw our first (and last) dingo, which Fraser Island is famed for as they are the most pure-blooded dingoes in Australia, it just looked like a small, skinny, yellow German Shepard to me though. We drove back to Noosa through the main land ...

A travel blog entry by alexndean
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... bond, me and Nelson . . . Anyway, Leo drives us to the bus station and we resume our Greyhound experience. Greyhounding in Australia is completely different from Greyhounding in the US, which I did for six weeks back in 2000 (see that travelogue at www. ...

A travel blog entry by jambo
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Four in 10 travellers say nudist beaches would boost tourism numbers to Australia. A survey of 1250 people by travel website totaltravel.com asked whether more nude sunbathing beaches should be allowed around the country to boost tourism. More than ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... trip (couldnt really refuse). After moving the 100 or so bottles of beer from the backseat, it was quite an entertainng journey. Noosa is quite an upmarket town, with nice beach and expensive shops, though I stayed in the cheaper area of town, which ...

A travel blog entry by shaunduvall
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... like we were on vacation. Definitely a nice break (from what? I know I know.) but we're both ready to tackle Australia a little more proactively in our final 2 weeks here. Last night we stayed at a place called the Gagaju Bush Camp outside of Noosa ...

A travel blog entry by rachel_jodie
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... in many places , their trees are being chopped down , the Koalas get depressed and are more susceptive to disease. Now , in Australia , the numbers have declined from about 12 million to less than one million so you gotta pity these little guys. We got ...

A travel blog entry by anatkramer
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... in one traffic jam so far on my drive until today when trying to leave Brisbane. Bloody civilisation! On first appearances Noosa appears to be quite a swish resort town with trendy cafes and expensive boutiques, but the town has some beautiful beaches ...

A travel blog entry by christosp
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... heating my up into a sweaty mass....shouldn't complain about the sun tho. Early start to get to the train to head off to Australia Zoo - home of Steve Irwin, god knows if many of you have heard of him but he's the Crocodile Hunter. Anyway the website will ...

A travel blog entry by pauldwade
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... in disbelief. The next day we got up and went for a walk on the beach. We decided to explore Noosa National Park. There's a beach called Alexandra Bay so we took that particular track. After about 45 minutes we were delighted to see the ...

A travel blog entry by dacraic
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... a couple of Scotch pies and some Irn Bru from the Scottish food shop she mentioned which was a tasty surprise. The bus to Noosa left in the afternoon with the short journey soon leaving me in what is probably best described as a older folks resort town ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... softly. Our main planned activity for today had been to walk from the hostel, through the national park to the town of Noosa Heads, where all the shops and stuff are. Unfortunately, my twisted ankle is in no shape for bushwalking, so Jane goes by ...

A travel blog entry by jambo
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... to the bus station or to the town centre. Main Beach is a 5 min walk from the bus station, and this is a good swimming beach. Noosa itself is really small with only 1 pub and a couple of clubs. There's not a huge amount of things to do here. As we were ...

A travel blog entry by shonandgraham
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Hello everyone. well noosa,we only stayed here for 2nights,wish we stayed here longer. Noosa is another little surf town,very spread out so there was abit of a walk to the beach,didnt stop us though. Spend most of the first day at the beach,good to finally ...

A travel blog entry by jackandandrew
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... tomorrow night's game is another much-needed win. Now, back to life in Oz. I've spent the last few nights in Noosa, a resort town on the Sunshine Coast, just north of Brisbane. The main activity here, not surprisingly, is beach-related. I've ...

A travel blog entry by segacs
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Catch up time again I'm afraid, so you get a blast of five or six links. Noosa was a quick stop, an over night stay and surf the following day. We meet up with Vanessa and her friends Neal and Stu in the hostel in Noosa. How cool are we as I met her ...

A travel blog entry by hodge
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... chat about AFL) but did get a quite amazing bowl of hot chocolate with marshmallows.   After this brief little piece of heaven we headed to Main Beach for a swim and then walked through Noosa National Park to marvel at the amazing surfers.

Some facts about this place: Australia is the world's sixth largest country and it's largest island. It's the only island that's also a continent and the only continent that's only a country. It was the first continent to be conquered from the sea, and the ...

A travel blog entry by johnbrianmess
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... seen to. That said, the hospital we went to didn't have any doctors there today. Things like this didn't surprise us much anymore in Australia. We were getting hungry now, so we went into town, had a few games of pool, some pub-grub, and a few drinks; ...

A travel blog entry by countrybumpkin
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... petit badge et ma photo prise un samedi matin a 7h.... ahum...) Leo et moi sommes parties pour des vacances avancees : direction Noosa!!!!!! Juste 3 heures de bus de Brisbane, et tout de suite on est dans un autre monde, celui des surfeurs... mais ca ...

Arriving at the hostel in well-to-do Noosa we found ourselves in quite a des-res and treated ourselves to dinner a deux, very welcome after the masses of the last few days. We had the day to brush with the rich if not famous Aussies at the pristine beach ...

Saturday 24th June Short bus journey from Brisbane and i arrive in Noosa heads, it is a beach resort where a lot of rich australians go on holiday, you can tell by some of the nice properties there. There are lots of backpackers too, who are exiled to ...

Looking for koalas in the national park, surfing and kayaking in the rain

... , which whilst they had no proven medical benefit, I knew that they would cheer Lynne up. Walking out of the Noosa Junction Shopping Centre, I luckily strolled past a chemist that had a large vitamins section. Venturing inside I found a bemusingly large ...

very very beautyfull, great time ....