Si's Year Out! (Plus Europe! Plus Morocco!): Noosa

Noosa is a beautiful place. This area of the coast is dominated by resort-ish type places with high-rise buildings and fast food restaurants everywhere, but Noosa doesn't have any of that! It is like a small but modern town in the middle of a tropical paradise....the shops and apartments are surrounded by palm trees and beautiful beaches with no high buildings to spoil the view!

As soon as I arrived I headed over to the national park, which is also where the good surf is. The best place was just behind a load of rocks....the waves were quite easy but getting into the water was a mission cos there were rocks running from the car park to 5 meters out to sea! After that I went for a look at the national park. The park is fairly small by national park standards with 5 walks that take you through different types of forest. I did them all (over the next three days), the best was the coastal walk - I saw a koala while walking it!

In the evening I headed over to Noosaville to do some fishing. Surprisingly, I caught a load of bream! Its unusual for me to catch more than one or two fish so, for the first time, I actually had enough fish to make a meal! Cooked them on a BBQ wrapped in foil...mmmmmm

For the next couple of days I just surfed in the morning, walked in the day and fished in the evening. On the third morning I was surfing in the usual place but the waves were much bigger. This was great for the surf but made it really hard to get in, and even harder to get out. As I was getting out the water I was standing on a rock and looked back to see a big wave coming towards me. Just managed to turn back into the sea before it smashed me. Luckily I landed on my feet. Unluckily I landed on a rock covered in little mussel things with sharp shells. After I got out I looked and saw a load of gashes on the bottom of my foot and a small chunk missing from my heel! There is a happy ending to this story in the next post so don't worry.

Anyway, later that day I randomly bumped into some people I'd met in Manly! They were booking their trip to Fraser Island and that got me thinking I should sort out my Fraser Island trip! Went into the booking agents to have a look and before I knew it I had booked a three day trip leaving the next day!