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

Dear Grace and Mag, After I left Brisbane last week I travelled a bit further up to a place called Noosa for a camping trip in the bush. It was ok...not great but not horrendous either. Stayed in a dorm of hammocks for the first night and a tent for the second and third night (very uncomfortable). We canoed up the river one day and down the river the other day - both times finding a beach, chilling and having a little picnic. I preferred the second day as the beach was really big and with beautiful blue water. Arms and back muscles ached a little bit but not as much as I thought seeing as we canoed 12km round trip the first day and 7km the second day. In the evenings there was nothing really ... read more

Good morning! (or evening for you) Noosa is most famously known in Georgia's mind as the place with the best ice creams. Indeed she had 4 in one day. Whilst wearing a bikini. Bold move. The beach here was lovely - Georgia and Sophie loved sunbathing whilst Max (yet again) slept. We had great at pool parties and free BBQs (salad sandwhiches for Georgia) at the Nomads hostel we were staying in. We greatly enjoyed the one club Noosa had to offer - was buzzing. Noosa also introduced us to the creepiest German roomate yet. To make it even better we kept on bumping into him at every single stop after. We still don't know his name. On the plus side we also reunited with many lovely friends from Byron and had loads of lovely evenings ... read more

Fraser Island was one of our more extravagant spends of the Australia leg of our journey, similar to that of the Whitsunday islands. We had a couple of spare days before in Noosa, a beautiful little place where the rich and famous like to kick back and relax. Although we didn't see any celebs, we did see a lot of money flying around with Hugo Boss among the shops on the Main Street. There were yachts galore in the lakes around the town, many of them putting our Whitsunday Adventurer to shame! We had New Years here which I cannot remember an ounce of, but we ended up down at the beach with a load of friends watching the fireworks and then headed back to the hostel where the party was. New Year's Day was almost ... read more

Woke up to a very windy morning. Its supposed to rain today, so we drove to Underwater world aquarium in Mooloolaba. It was rubbish and we're annoyed to have spent $70 on it. Its a very windy day which is a shame as it rules out a lot of activities. We went into Noosa Heads for lunch and had a lovely chicken burger. Just as we finished eating, there was a huge thunderstorm! We got absolutely soaked running back to the van! Charles' phone got wet and broke, so we went to buy him a new one. Its very jazzy! We spent the evening sitting out in the barbeque area with a few drinks and chatted to some of the other campers.... read more

Eumundi is famous for one thing, and that’s its markets. There is a market every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. And we’re not talking an average kind of market – this is the mother of all markets. The big version is on Saturday mornings but even the Wednesday one, which we went to, was huge! We spent several hours checking out the many stalls and cursed ourselves for having eaten a hearty breakfast as there was an abundance of delicious food on offer. I couldn’t help myself and had an early lunch of chicken satay skewers and various snack and drink samples. In an attempt to get rid of a headache and stiff neck/shoulders, I went for a craniosacral ‘jaw aligning’ treatment. I’d never had one before and it wasn’t exactly what I had expected. Unlike manipulative ... read more