Noosa ......Not what we expected.

Noosa 18th - 24th July

After hearing nothing but positive reports, we were pretty excited to finally get to experience Noosa. There are 2 main caravan parks with Noosa River CP getting the best reviews on WikiCamps (the app that is the  caravanners bible). I tried booking in about 3 weeks before to be told they were fully booked till October! Next on the list was Noosa CP at a place called Tewantin, just outside of Noosa.

The sites were so ridiculously small that everyone has to be directed in to their spot by a nice old codger, who actually does an amazing job with his directions "left hand down, right hand up" to land us in exactly the right place on the site. The park seemed more like a retirement village with the average age being about 70. After going for our customary walk around the park to suss out everyone & their set up we found we were actually in the not so nice section with the back of the park being really lovely with slightly bigger, beautiful grassy sites with huge palm trees & a lovely little river running right through the middle.

Next day we went to the main street  in Noosa, Hastings street, which is on the beach. The street is only about a kilometre long with one side full of designer fashion labels & overpriced giftware shops & the other side full of cafes filled with 'beautiful' people sipping on their skinny soy mocchacino chai latte's. The street was as busy as the Hahndorf''s main street on a Sunday!

The beach was beautiful with crystal clear blue water & squeaky clean sand. We walked along the waters edge which was really lovely. As it was a nice sunny day the beach was packed as well which was to be expected being such a popular place. We only stayed a couple of hours which was enough for us to decide that Noosa wasn't really for us.

The next day we had lunch at Sunshine Beach surf club on the balcony overlooking the beach. That was really nice & even had a couple of whales slowly swim by just to add to the atmosphere.

One night I went to go outside at abut 10.30pm & the door was locked from the inside! I tried a couple of times but it wouldn't budge. Gary had to climb out through the window to unlock it from the outside. It was pretty funny at the time watching Gary squeeze though the small caravan window but may not have been too funny in the case of an emergency. We knew we had to fix it soon so after investigation, Gary found that his key was worn out which allowed the key to be removed in the locked position effectively deadlocking the door from the outside. A quick trip to Bunnings to get a new key cut & problem solved.

Each Saturday night was 'Pizza Night' at the caravan park. An outside company would bring their mobile pizza oven & ingredients & charge $10 for a freshly cooked pizza. It was really nice standing outside chatting while waiting for our pizza (not to mention having tea cooked for us) Was such a great idea don't know why more parks don't do it.

We're glad we finally experienced Noosa but agreed we can tick that one off our bucket list & don't need to come back again.

Next stop............... Hervey Bay!