Onto Noosa and this is where the 'holiday' begins. We are here for 6 days and then we move onto our house exchange in Twin Waters for 2 weeks. It might seem as though its already been a holiday, it's certainly been a fantastic time, despite the weather not being as good as it should have been in New Zealand. I think both of us are beginning to feel a wee bit weary so although we will continue sightseeing the pace will be slower, after all my motto in Crete is one job a day so why change. When we started this trip I had worked out our itineraries and I had a definite 'must do' list. So far we have stuck to the chosen routes, some of them traversed purely to get from A to B, and the must do list is full of ticks. This area, the sunshine coast, has many attractions, some beautiful beaches and picturesque scenery, all deserving of our attention so lets get started.
Noosa itself is a fairly large and very busy town/area, a llittle pretensious but with a reputation to live up to. If Kaikoura was Blackpool, Wanaka was Windermere then Noosa is St Tropez, full of pretty people, pretty shops and pretty restaurants. However, the ladies that lunch and carry their latest purchase in designer carrier bags rub shoulders with the young who eat hamburgers at McDonald's while carrying their whole wardrobe in their bacpack, and don't seem to care. Its an eclectic mix of people but it seems to work attracting many visitors, holidaymakers from near and far and locals who consider it the 'in' place to be seen.
We headed for Hastings Street, definitely the place to be seen. Question was how do you get to see and be seen when parking is at a premium and you join a queue of cars crawling up and down hoping someone just happens to vacate their space in front of you allowing you to pull in. Steve always gets lucky and this time was no exception. Although it was my birthday I had decided that we would celebrate tomorrow night instead in order to give us time to find somewhere we could have a nice meal but in a town that is famed for its many restaurants and diverse cuisines where do you start?
We eventually chose a Brazilian restaurant and booked a pavement table for 7.30pm which was last orders.
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| Noosa Parade |
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| Noosa Sound |
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| Noosa Sound |
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