Hotel Laguna Noosa

After an early start and a great breakfast with Kathryn and Jiah, we set off to the Sunshine Coast on the Greyhound. As Kathryn and Jiah were coming up for the day too, they took our rucksacks in the car which we thought was great until the Greyhound lady's response: <br><br>"How many bags?" <br><br>"None" we replied. To which the response was an upturned nose and, "Well I heard about you Poms and how you don't have baths. I mean I understand in the cold but here you really need some ...

... weren't great either. We still had a good time though and we were in the water for about an hour before we decided to head back to the car. <br><br>That night Anna had decided to cook Kangaroo for us on the BBQ since we've never tried it. It was absolutely gorgeous. Kangaroo is a gamey type of meat so it had to be cooked pretty rare. I'm not a fan of bloody meat but this was cooked to perfection. After dinner we played some games and had a relatively early night ...

... they're expanding it from 75 acres up to 500 over the next few years, they'll have an area for each continent, looks like it will be pretty cool. At the moment they mostly have Australian animals, plus some gators and asian elephants and tigers in their SE Asia section. the keepers were playing with the younger tigers which was great to watch, you can really see the similarity to house cats when they're like that, although the ...

... to the right one red faced. I get to Scuba World on the wharf and check in and dump my stuff, they seem well organised and nice and im excited. I check out Maloolaba and the beach, its beautiful and I regret having spent my 5 nights in noosa. Also there is no sign of the rain here and we are only an hour down south. In the evening David and Wayne come to pick me up and we head up to the Glass House Mountains to watch the sun set, its pretty ...

... the beers night before). I love it though! We did boogie boarding again as well and rode the waves in that way, no standing required for that. When our bodies wouldn't take anymore, we sat on some rocks on the side of the shore and watched all the other surfers..which is just fantastic, could watch surfing and the waves forever. There's guys out there that have been ...

... food will keep us going for a few more days. Canoe filled with chocolate, crisps, wine, dips, fruit, sandwiches and enough supplies for pasta carbonara and curry to feed an army, we headed for the starting point. Our group of adventurers consisted of an English girl we had already met on Whitsundays cruise and three German backpackers. The plan was to canoe about 10km to the campsite, set camp, eat, drink, have a party with the group that had left the day before us, then get ...

We left Brisbane on the 29th and headed towards Noosa Heads up the coast a few hours. Our car is acting up and is in dire need of a checkup. We can't drive up hills at a slow speed. It starts to shake and sputter before it just stalls out. Its horrible when there are cars behind us. I hope it doesn't cost to much to fix but it needs to be done otherwise we'll never be able to sell the car. After a stressful drive out ...

... the shortest walk possible around it and saw lots of trees and bush turkeys lol. Not much else really but we can say we did it. Then we headed into the town centre and the shops. Noosa, we have decided, is really expensive for backpackers and we were quite glad we had decided to just do day trip and not stay the night or two we had planned. To be honest we were only there a few hours so not much to report, it would be a lovely place for a proper holiday ...

... guys from cambridge, a crazy crazy crazy guy called olly, another guy called mike and then 2 other dudes martin a lad from london and ben an italian who went to uni in england..or something like that. The other boys we shared the room with was a real placid guy called Pearce..and 2 welsh dudes...need we say more (loccy and richie) all of the guys were legends and spent pretty much everynight with them down the koala bar having the times of our lives. In the day mike and i made the ...

... 8211; they spend four hours a day eating and the other twenty hours sleeping. About the only thing that doesn&#8217;t sound so good about their life is that baby koalas that are too young to munch on gum leaves survive by eating their mum&#8217;s poo. This is 100% true. The Sanctuary also had its share of kangaroos, emus and wombats, although this was the first wildlife park I had ever been to where kangaroos and people were separated ...