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Dancing Dave
David Hooper
STUNNING SUNSHINE COAST
What a place to call Home. I hitched from Sydney to Noosa with a mate when I was 17. Camped under a tree on Sunshine Beach...with a cloth No Camping sign attached to the tree. Pinched water from the Sunrise Caravan park...walked or hitched to Noosa each day for strawberry milkshakes. In those days Noosa had a couple of shops, a caravan park and a single wave break from headland to headland. Drove up the following year...camped under the same tree...and took the No Camping sign as a souvenir. That area is totally built out with residential now...and Noosa and down the coast is a metropolis.