Noosa
Travel Blogs from Noosa, Australia
Noosa
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 ...
Noosa
... 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 ...
Lazing at the beach
... , so 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 ...
Silly name, great place!
... and miss out 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 ...
Noosa Heads and Fraser Island
... 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 ...
It's a bit looser in Noosa
... 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 ...
Australia - Noosa
... -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 ...
City Of Blinding Lights
... 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 ...
working our way up the coast
... /acted 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
... 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 ...
Brisbane & Noosa Heads - Day 218
... 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 ...
Bare bums the answer for tourism downturn
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 ...
Day 288-294: Fraser Island to Brisbane
... 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 ...
Noosa and catching up with friends
... cause I didnt take any photos on this night :-( Jodi cooked us a delicious fry up before we headed off in the morning absolute legend for looking after us :-)) Distance Tin Can Bay - Noosa is 192km - drive time 2.5 hours ...
Noosa and sunshine coast
... evening 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 ...
Noosa - day 2
... more 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 ...
Not a lot to do in Noosa
... 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 ...
The Southbank Show
... 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 ...
Noosa
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 ...
Sand, sand and more sand
... 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 ...
Naked Noosa and the Steve Irwin Australia Zoo
... see a wild Koala hanging in the tree. He was really cute and it got us really excited to cuddle one the next day at Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo is a little over-rated, we’ve both been to better zoos but it was home to legendary Steve Irwin so it ...
Not so silky surfing
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 ...
You will believe me if not now but when i ...
... eventually get the photo's up on this site, that paradise does exsist and it is to be found on Fraser Island, QLD Australia! I will now accept all their sporting superiority and they are welcome to it because they have given the world places like this! ...
Noosa
... out to sea by currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the outback. It'd a tough place! With this in mind, I visited Australia Zoo. Founded by the late Steve Irwin (Croc Hunter nutter), it's a huge park in which Crocs are fed, and Koalas and ...
Expect the Unexpected!
... 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; ...
east cost
... 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 ...
Noosa and Fraser Island
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 ...
Rainy days on the "sunshine" coast
Looking for koalas in the national park, surfing and kayaking in the ...

