Jods and I had about 5 days where we didn't have a place to stay here in Surfers and it just so happened that Jods was able to get the exact days off. So we mulled it over for a little while, trying to figure out what we wanted to do or where we wanted to go. We read some of our Lonely Planet book and asked a few friends their suggestions and decided on visiting Noosa which is north of Brisbane. So we hopped on a bus and after a stop over in Brisbane we arrived in Noosa.
Every place we have been to so far is extremely low stress. Every single hostel we have been to provides shuttles too and from most public transportation areas. We ended up staying with Dolphins Beach House, which was highly recommended by Lonely Planet and had fantastic reviews online and also happens to be in Sunshine Coast. So we got in to Noosa and we were sitting around waiting for the public bus to take us to Sunshine. Sure enough like all the places we have visited, a guy comes running up to us asking us if we knew where we were going. We told him and he told us to wait in another area because our hostel was coming to pick us up. We didn't have to call them or ask for a ride, they just come every hour and know the bus schedule and show up shortly after to pick up all travellers. What a great start to the trip.
After about 5 or 10 minutes a Brit shows up on the Dolphins shuttle bus, asks us where we are from and laughs because we said Canada. "You guys drinking tonight? Monday is the best night to go out around here and there are always lots of Canadians playing beer pong at our place!" So how can we turn that down. We take a quick run up to the bottle shop and have a nice chat with the liquor store guy, (he yells at us for a bit saying that his store is a whistle free zone, we obviously test this, all jokes), and we manage to find a 24 pack of german beers for 33 bucks, (ridiculously cheap for here).
So we get back and scarf down some of the most delicious pizza I have ever had and start boozing with a group of people from all over. A few Brits, some dutch people, a couple americans and some irish folk. A vast majority of them were heading to the zoo in the morning so we can only convince a brit and a texan to come out. They proceed to tell us about how the craziest people they came across during their travels were Canadians so we have big shoes to fill. All in all it was a good time, dancing and making fun of people, met up with a german that we met in the hostel that was super nice and we didn't get home and to bed until around 4 or 5.
We woke up early, a little too early, to do a walk through the Noosa National Park towards Noosa itself. Since I was going one for one with the 3 girls the night before, pints against small mixed drinks, I woke up very enthusiastic and ready to take on the day. This walk we did was amazing though, Every corner we took had amazing views of cliffs and massive blue waves hitting rocks. Jods and I were saying every 30 seconds how happy we were that we were here. A lot of shitty days working at shitty jobs in Ottawa were making this whole trip really worth it.
These were just a few of the many pictures we took of this amazing hike. It took us about 3 or 4 hours to walk this estimated 2 hour walk because we stopped so many times to take it all in. Nick and Shan if you guys are reading this it was a lot like our hike up the mountain in Poland, so many amazing lookouts that took our breath away (well maybe not Jods with her wows and oohs lol).
We saw our first poisonous snake in the wild on this hike. I don't remember the name of the snake but it was about 4 feet long and zoomed across the path in front of us. We took a quick look at it in the bush but we didn't want to anger it so we let it do its thing. (the reason I know it was a poisonous one was a couple days later I was at the Australian zoo and we referenced it and it was something real nasty). We also saw a bunch of sea turtle in one of the surfs. Those suckers are large but it was really cool to see them in the wild as well.
Along the walk we came across Alexandria bay I think was the name. We had no idea until we got close that it happened to be a nude beach. We came walking down the path going towards the beach when I saw an old man walking around naked. That was the first show of many that we saw along that walk. It was a really nice beach because it was gorgeous white sand with nice crashing waves and the only way you could get there was by a fairly vigorous hour walk on either side, hence the nakedness. So the next day Jody and I had another wonderful sunny day so we decided to pack a cooler full of ice cold beer and snacks and get nice and naked on this beach. Man that was a wonderful afternoon, there is nothing like sitting on a beautiful isolated beach drinking beer in your birthday suit with your beautiful girlfriend doing the same right beside you. Don't worry we clinked beers to all those back home in the cold.
These are the types of houses that one day I will own myself.
Noosa is such a beautiful clean place with a wonderful boardwalk and cafes and restaurants along it. The people there were all so friendly and I had absolutely no complaints about the city. We both said that if we could have moved there and spent a couple months there we would have. Its such nice small town atmosphere but so clean and everything you could want to do and more. There are wonderful hikes around and great places to surf and kayak. One of the best markets in the surrounding area, (but we didn't end up getting there which we were really disappointed about). Just thinking about it now makes me want to go back. Of all the places we have been so far this was definitely my fav.
We also got to go to the Australian zoo while we were there but I think I'll let Jods talk about that one, animals and Jods are just 2 peas in a pod
All in all go to Noosa if you get the chance. You won't regret it
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