Noosa
5th April - Noosa
We said goodbye to David and Huw and caught a bus heading for Noosa, Rachel was staying with family but was going to meet us in Noosa in a couple of days. We arrived in Noosa and booked ourselves into the YHA which was in the nicer side of town than the other hostels and just a short walk to the beach. The weather was rather wet so we decide to have a stole around the town, it is in no way a backpackers town which was a pleasant change. That evening we stayed in the Hostel and had welcome drinks and were told of the things to do, one of which was walk in the National Park which is what we decided to do for the following morning.
6th April - Noosa
Up at a reasonable time and off for a little walk along the coast though the National Park, as we were walking I spotted my first wild Koala sitting in a tree. The walk took us around some amazing surfing beaches where we stood and watched the young and the old make this look very easy. We decided maybe we should have a go and went back and hired a board from the hostel. Well it’s not easy but it was very entertaining, Anna, Lucy and I showed the people on Noosa beach how not to surf. Lucy was trying to blame the missing fin on our board for her not being able to go in a straight line, so I decided to have a go at fixing it. Like an idiot I was using a letherman knife and slipped, resulting in me spending most of that afternoon in the Medicare center having stitches in my finger. Well that put and end to our surfing so to ease the pain of my finger we thought it was a good idea to spend the rest of the afternoon in a wine bar. That evening we headed out to a place called Gympie Terrance for a really nice Thai meal.
7th -8th April - Noosa to Brisbane
We were woken to more rain, we waited for this to stop before the three of us headed to the beach, we were only there for about an hour before we met up with Rachel. We walked around the town a little more and found ourselves somewhere nice to eat before we caught our bus to Brisbane. We booked ourselves into a nice hostel in Brisbane and then headed for a walk around the city, walking over to the southbank which I find a really nice place. We ended up back in the heart of the city for a meal and a bottle of wine. The following morning everybody had things to do so we arranged to meet up in time to catch the bus to Byron Bay. The bus took about 3 and half hours so we arrive in Byron after dark. We were staying in the YHA where we met back up with Huw, David and also managed to meet up with James and another Hugh. We spent a very pleasant evening spent drinking and catching up with the other guys.
