Blogs from Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

We've been journeying slowly south over the last few days from the craziness of the Karnak playhouse to Yandina only about 200km north of the New South Wales border. Initially we travelled with Ania a friend of ours we met at Karnak an who left at the same time. Our first stop was at Magnetic island where we had a nice day wandering from one secret and secluded bay to the next. When we got back we stayed at Ania's parent's freind's friend's house (otherwise known as Liz and Wayne). The cooked some excellent bbq food for us and plied us with wine and whisky and picked a loofa off a bush for me (that's right a normal bath loofa, which was full of seeds and looked like an over-ripe banana in it's case). Feeling a ... read more

I was up later than normal today, having stayed up late with Lee last night setting the world to rights. As soon as I had poked my head through the tent door I could see that Keith and Lee had already set about packing things up and loading the trailer. Keen to help I packed my bags, rolled up my sleeping bag and threw my things into the back of Lee's truck. Folding up and trying to stack the various bits of equipment as neatly as we had done when leaving home was a tall order. I wondered why it was that nothing, no matter what your doing, ever fits as well as it does when you do the return journey. None the less we soldiered on under Keiths instruction until it was time to stop ... read more

True to my word, I was up and out of my tent just as the sun began to creep over the horizon. Lee had given me instructions last night to come round to the side of his tent to wake him up. Experience had taught me that waking him up after a skinful the night before was a lot easier said than done. Many was the time that he'd crashed at mine, or visa versa, and getting him up required either the promise of food or a marching band complete with air-horn! Surprisingly though, it only took a few nudges to get him out of his pit and into the car. We drove right the way down the beach to the point, where a handful of people were already waist deep in the cold ocean trying ... read more

I woke up with the sun this morning and turned over to see Lee was still with me in my tent. Carmen told Lee that if he wasn't going to shower after getting smoked out by the fire then he had to sleep with me rather than in their tent. When I woke up after falling asleep by the fire I had discovered he was doing exactly as he had been told, giving me a little bit of space to sleep on the bumpy sand rather than the blow up mattress. I wandered over to Des and Keith's tent and grabbed a coffee. Before long Lee had joined us and everyone started poking fun at the fact that we'd shared a tent. I could only assume that the Aussies had a thing when it came to ... read more

Finaly we´re leaving Noosa today and are heading down south to Brisbane. Have had a few more hours surfing, and enjoyed it. But I still have a lot more to learn :-)... read more