Beef Tacos, Tea Tree and Longboarding at Noosa

Trip Start Aug 15, 2006
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Monday, September 18, 2006

We spent the last 3 nights in Noosa Heads with the girls at this real cool hostel (Halse Lodge) right across from the surf beach at Noosa...The village is very upper-class resort style ...A little too classy for surf travel. None the less, Noosa is legendary and we arrived at the tail end of a good swell...caught some nice ones off the first point, Boiling Pot, and Tea Tree (a rocky yet fun and powerful wave). The first point is like the Malibu of Australia...perfectly shaped and clean, you could ride it forever. And I did. Man it's great to be in surf country now. We ran into the guys from Peru and Chile who we'd met at Fraser Island...they were at Noosa for a surf. Also, we ran into the Swedish friends at Halse Lodge...it's prety cool how you run into all these people you know everywhere. Australia is really a country of vagabonders. Everyone has a beat up campervan and a surfboard.
The national park in Noosa is very beautiful..we went on a few hikes with our boards in search of waves...Dylan got a surfing lesson at the rivermouth with some cat from Coolum...he was doing the Keanu Reaves pop-up on the sand like in Point Break...haha...and Stef bought this $800 7'0" brand new made in California board...I picked up a shorty for the ride south...a great deal...a 6'3" Al Merrick epoxy board used for only $295! These things usually go new for 8-9 hundred...the only thing is that the one I bought had been recently repaired due to a freak accident involving an automobile running it over. Oh well.
So, I'd estimate that I surfed a minimum of 5 hours per day while in Noosa...not bad considering the waves were pretty small. Can't wait for Byron.
In Noosa we also had a few drinks and made an unbelievable dinner at the hostel kitchen that consisted of Pasta and meat sauce and soft tacos with plates of beef and lettuce and tomatoes and cheese to choose from...unreal!
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