Noosa, aaahh Noosa. A place of precisely scheduled year-round holiday making. 5 am sunrise in the summer, and you can count on at least fifty or so swimmers, surfers, and stand-up paddleboarders are already out on the water at first light. While I was there I stayed at the YHA hostel just about a block from Hastings street. Off of Hastings street is access to the main Noosa Beaches, the sand bar, river mouth, and Noosa Headland breaks - First Point, Tea Tree Bay, Granites, and Alexandria Bay. The point breaks didn't have too much going on, so I mostly was at Noosa Main beach. Stayed there for two nights and then up to Rainbow Beach. Along with Harvey Bay, Rainbow is a gateway town to Fraser Island: the world's largest sand Island. "Grains of sand... we're all just grains of sand!" - A Famous Quote. Yes, there definitely was a heap of sand on the island, and rain. We basically had a large amount of rain every day, with patches of sun. Fraser Island is also home to a very rare population of Dingoes, because of their isolation from the rest of the continent they have a very pure geneology. Fraser Island had some cool lakes, and we drank a lot of beer in a big tent, but other than that didn't do too much. Driving around in the 4x4's through the rainforest on an island made it feel kinda like Jurassic Park, minus the dino's, add dingo's.
After Fraser the rain had closed down parts of the Bruce Highway through Gympie to get back to Brisbane. But finally I escaped! Great success! On Jan the 9th I made it through from Rainbow Beach back to Brisbane. Just barely though, lots of the roads were flooded. The day after however many of the roads we had travelled on were completely submerged. Flew out of Brisbane and arrived in Melbourne on Monday, been hanging out in the city for the first two nights and made it out to Torquay last night. Met up with my pals from BC, Brett and Liza, who live in Wallington near 13th Beach.
Best wishes to all who have been affected by the QLD floods! Help is on the way. Anyone travelling north of Brisbane? Maybe not so advisable...
The Lingo ate my Baby...
Capsicum - Pepper (as in the Vegetable)
Mad as a cut snake - really really angry
Goin' Off - Really happening and exciting. ie. That house party is goin' off!
Goin' off like a bride's nightie - Really goin' off
Sam Kekovich - humorous spokesmen for Australian Nationalism and barbecues
Itinerary
Jan 16 - Fly back to Melbourne
Jan 17 - Feb 5 Brisbane, Gold Coast, Byron Bay, etc. all the way to Sydney
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