The Emerald Noosa

Hi welcome to my blog! Im guessing u know me if ur here! Well ull prob know i planned this on impulse cos exams was getting me down etc! Initially postponed it to november but changed it back! Hope to make it interesting for u all.... dont worry ill ...

A trip around the world. What a good idea. Especially when nothing much else grabs your fancy. Taking 7 months to traverse a select few countries (Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the USA).

Setting out from Shetland on the 17th November 07 to Melbourne via Aberdeen, London and Singapore. In Melbourne for 3 days then flying to Hamilton Island, will work our way down the coast to Coolangatta for christmas followed by Sydney for new year. We ...

Jamie & Tracy set off in the big blue bus heading around Australia on a working holiday.

... and looked at the beautiful ocean and stormy skies. Then we continued driving south and found a place to sleep right by the beach in Emerald Bay. It was beautiful. Matt and I slept in a tent and they slept in their camper van. Who knew that sleeping on ...

... climbed to a peak called Indian Head and looked out to the ocean to see whales breaching in the distance. Lake Wabby was a fantastic emerald colour, and it had sand dunes right beside it, which were very comfy to lie on! I could have stayed there all ...

... four of us to do to get some money. Well well well, low and behold, there was a man named Mark up in a city named Emerald looking for watermelon pickers. I bought a tent from a good Frenchman, Fabrice, for quite cheap and two days later, we were on our ...

... perspective of exactly how big the island and shows you how large parts are covered by sub tropical rain forest with dots of emerald blue and turquoise where the lakes have formed. Quite possibly the scarriest / funniest part of the flight was coming in ...

... but we would meet again in Rainbow Beach. On the shuttle from Koala's to the bus stop with me were Catherine and Oonagh, from the Emerald Isle (the southern half), who also would be in my Fraser group. After three hours we were there - a frightening but ...

... blue water. Most of the places we stayed on the way up were fairly unremarkable, however the following are worth a mention. Emerald Beach (NSW): great little surf beach and campsite north of Coffs Harbour. Byron Bay (NSW): lovely little town, great ...

... and rugged. The west coast however is pretty much deserted, but being the side that faces the mainland is really calm with glass-smooth emerald blue water lapping against a pure white beach. One day we were there we literally had a beach as far as the eye ...

... which was a rainforest growing from sand which is the base of the whole Island. our final stop was basin lake which was emerald green in colour and excellent for swimming. All in all the day was brilliant!! The next day we travelled to the French ...

... took a dip in the freshwaters of Eli Creek, relaxed in the Champagne pools, climbed to the top of Indian Head, visited the emerald green Lake Wabby and its towering sand dunes, watched the sun rise before anyone else in Australia and had two great nights ...

... of light golden fine sand with imprinted patterns created by the wind and the footsteps of previous days visitors. The lake itself is an emerald green colour due to the peat-like base of the lake that stains the water and is an example of the sandblow ...

... back to where we left off in July..... from Sydney we spent a week traveling up the northern NSW coast. One of the best spots was Emerald beach, where the caravan park was just back from the beach. For the people that like wild life, this park had lots of ...

... in the socks of course). The rest of the crossing took us past the impressive Red Crater, and later the famous Emerald Lakes, which have incredible turquoise coloring due to the minerals from the volcanic soil. Steam and smelly Sulfur also emerged next ...

... stopped at Lake Wabby and then went to set up camp on the beach near the north end of the island, lake Wabby was a kind of emerald green colour and was surrounded by dunes, we ran down the dunes and jumped in, although it was pretty cold we all survived. ...

... we finally made it to Lake Wabby which wasn't the brilliant blue of Lake Mackenzie (as promised by the agent) but more of a emerald green that didn't look overly appetizing. A few people had a dip, but overall not many people were impressed and no-one ...

... since we camped on the road to Lake Wabby.  It was again about a 45 minute drive.  Lake Wabby is famous because of it's emerald green color.  It is sad, because it is nestled in amongst sand dunes and it is slowly being filled in.  They say in about ...