Blogs from Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 5

I dag har vi dratt fra fantastiske Fraser Island til nydelige Noosa. Vi sjekket ut fra hotellet klokken 10, og ankom Harvey bay ( der fergen fra Fraser legger til kai) i halv 12 tiden. Derfra til Noosa er det ca 1 og en halv times kjøretur. Turen gikk kjempe fint, Yarisen vår går som en kule.. eller iallefall nesten :P Vi kom oss iallefall fram. Hotellet ligger en gate fra stranden, og midt i selve sentrum, kan ikke bli mer sentralt. Vi har fått en liten leilighet med balkong og utsikt til bassenget. Leiligheten har alt vi trenger, til og med vaskemaskin og tørketrommel på badet, noe som passet perfekt nå, vi hadde nemlig en del klær som måtte vaskes. I ettermiddag gikk gikk vi ned på stranden og bare slappet av. Noosa er en ... read more

Australia smells good. It really does. From the first day we landed I noticed a scent in the air. To me, it's a slightly perfumed sage scent. It could be partly because of the hundreds of varieties of eucalypus trees that grow everywhere. Their leaves have a strong scent, like menthol cough drops, and maybe the layers of shedded, dead leaves have a faded scent. I really like it, anyway. As we travel in Queensland we're amazed at the noise created every night at dusk when the lorikeets go to bed in the trees. I timed them tonight: at 4:15 p.m., just as the light in the sky started to dull, lorikeets started gathering in the huge trees in our caravan park. Thousands and thousands of them arrived within the next hour, their high-pitched screechings unbelievably ... read more

Crickey mate it must be Steve Irwin Zoo day !!!!!! It was pouring with rain so I bought one of those ever so attractive see thru poncho's and off I went :) Obviously steve is very highly respected here in Queensland, They have even re-named the hightway after him. Fist critter I saw was a lizard, gorgous little thing about 18 inches long with a lovely soft underbelly and leathery top. Had a cuddle with him then it was Possom time. They are like a cross between a bear and a pig !!! very cute but I only looked didnt cuddle this time. There was a Tortoise show that was very good, they can live up to 200 years old so this was only a teenager at 70 !! their shell is made out of the ... read more

Today was an early start again, up, breakfasted and out by 9am, on the beach at 9.05am. Like I said yesterday theres a surfing festival on at the moment and it was finals day today. I was mesmorised for hours !!! amazing surf, I passed a notice board giving the surf report and it read "sick at low tide" apparently this has no reference to the sea sickness but it means the waves will be great !!!! So I saw a guy called Harrison that was awesome, he uses a long board and believe me its loooong, huge thing !!! then he was running up and down the full length of the board whilst surfing huge waves, I learnt its called nose riding the board. get me I know the lingo dude :) anyway one of ... read more

Our next stop was Noosa. It took about four or five hours on the bus from Surfers Paradise although we had to go via Brisbane which held us up a bit. Apparently the rain seems to cause problems for Greyhound Buses as they were all running late, just after we’d commented in Byron Bay to each other that they seemed to be ridiculously efficient. Anyway, we were greeted at the transport hub by a couple of turkeys. I’m not being rude and talking about people, there were actually two turkeys randomly wandering around. Alright by me as it is February, but had it been Christmas, you never know what I might have done. I wonder how difficult it is to catch a turkey? Our pick-up from Noosa backpackers Resort (where we had booked) came and we ... read more