Noosa Blue Resort

Part 1 of our Greyhound experience went ok. The bus lurched and weaved along the roads but got us to Noosa before 10am. We went up the hill to check in to our hotel thinking that there would be no chance that the room would be ready but thought we ...

... Time, but Queensland does, so when you pass the border you have to set your clocks back an hour. Only in Australia. I’m enjoying Noosa so far, it’s a bit bigger than Byron Bay. Well quite a lot bigger actually, as Byron Bay is just one road, ...

... cruising about.   On Tuesday, we left Sydney to fly to Brisbane so we could travel from there to a beautiful resort town called Noosa.  The first day we spent in Brisbane visiting Sonia's Uncle Wally and cousins and their families.  We ...

... but at least not pissing down....however that's what it did on the way to Noosa, more torrential rain. Plumped for Noosa Backpackers Resort when we arrived coz they had free kayaks and boards. Weird place, our dorm was a converted apartment with 6 beds ...

... come in which was a beautiful moment in all of our lives. At 8 AM we were back on the bus and heading off to the small resort of Noosa with all the gang (Adam, Natalie, Jemma, Emma, Ryan, Sophie & I). Much to our joy all the gang were in the same ...

... . Noosa is a great little area comprised of rich Noosa Heads with its resorts, fine-dining restaurants and designer boutiques, Noosa Junction which is more affordable and caters to backpackers and the National Park. I spent a day walking around ...

... that is so clear and clean you could drink it! Best water in the world, our guide told us.  After this, we went to a resort where we had a fantastic lunch! That was very welcome after all our crappy meals.... ;-) Then we started driving over the beach, ...

... foreboding news, we spent most of Wednesday morning changing our plans. We decided to fly to Brisbane instead and drive 2 hours north to Noosa Heads. Not the Great Barrier Reef, but a nice spot for a 5 day beach vacation.  Who would have thought 2 ...

... lidt kørsel frem og tilbage frem og tilbage på Hastings Street, hovedgaden langs Main Beach  i Noosa Heads, finder vi vort logi i Ocean Breeze Resort, som ligger lige i starten af Hastings Street, skråt over for Surfklubben. Her er det så ...

... Paradise. I’m glad we kept going. High rise hotels, a reputation for debauchery along with all the other assorted resort tat limited Surfers’ appeal somewhat. We had an appointment with a Brisbane Geordie who had kindly arranged a place to ...

... to Japan to a scrap heap, got washed up onshore during a cyclone in 1935. We then stopped at Happy Valley resort and washed our dishes at the Aussie Trax camp kitchen. We spent the rest of the afternoon back at Lake McKenzie as we ...

... morning at the Hervey Bay YHA. The hostel is great, by the way! I highly recommend it to all backpackers - it's basically a budget resort. I stayed in a huge room with 7 other guys and gals, which seemed weird at first but was in fact very quiet. Everyone ...

... get to see some micro bats, an owl and some striped tree frogs that were tiny but were making a deafening noise all around the resort. There are about 150 dingoes on the island and are the purest strain there is. We were warned that they should not be ...

... beach and only a matter of metres from our bus, not to mention billions of different birds of prey. After some tea at a beach resort we drove down a boneshaker of a road to Lake McKenzie, the jewel of our trip. The sand there is made up of something ...

... Noosa Heads and the Noosa National Park which is about a two-hour drive north of Ashgrove here in Brisbane. Noosa is a fashionable holiday resort, reflecting its natural beauty, a north-facing beach and an extension river system. Noosa National Park is ...

... around 10am. There was a similar airport shuttle service to Darwin for $18 return so I booked that and was taken direct to the Bohemia Resort on McLeod Street. It looks like a nice place, it is a hostal but it has a pool, restaurant area and nice greenery ...

... view of an inner lagoon and can see the mouth of the Tweed River as it enters the Pacific. Attached to the resort is the Twin Towns Service club which has all kinds of facilities and activities financed through 'Pokies' which is Aussie slang for ...

... dead and washed up on the beach after a shark has taken a bite or two out of it. We were dropped off at the Eurong Beach Resort to drop our night things off and to have some tea whilst waiting for our tour guide for the two days, Steve, and from there ...

... ;    TUESDAY Noosa DAY 70  2/06/2010            WEDNESDAY Noosa – AUSTRALIA ZOO Went to Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo...famous for CRIKEY!  Was a huge day and a very ...

... Island which according to the guidebooks and a few people I'd met is well worth a visit...it's not!!! Stayed at the Travellers resort, which was pretty ordinary except for their pet crocodile called Rin Tin Tin. When I say pet I don't mean that it ...