Due to the ever changing weather in SEQ QLD, we decided to take a last minute mini camping vacation up north to Noosa Heads where we hadn’t been before. It was both the perfect and worst day for it.
Habitat Noosa Camping
Last weekend with MIL visiting from Sweden was spent up north in Noosa where Mikael and I haven’t been yet. Since he was working on Saturday, we left late in the afternoon and was driving the last bit up to Boreen Point (40min north of Noosa) in the dark. We were so lucky that our car has extra brights on, so we could see the kangaroo that jumped straight over the road in front of us. So scary!
Habitat Noosa was such a big camping ground. And it was so alive even at 8pm when we checked in. We were greeted by the kid on the site next to ours with him pressing his face against their trailers window and waved. Kids were up and running, but we had no trouble falling asleep under a star clear sky when everything was up and running.
We were woken up by the evil laughter of a full hoard of kookaburras. It really sounds like an evil laugh and there were so many, several times. We went back to sleep and I was so surprised when we actually woke up for real at like 5:30am and saw some kangaroos jumping around just outside. After walking around the campground, we saw 30 more and so many joey’s. I will never get tired of seeing them poking their cute little heads out the pouch curiously.
Beside the roos running around the campsite and our interesting neighbors, we somehow forgot the ladder to the rooftop tent, so climbing in and out of the tent was definitely an adventure. Good thing we are both still young, haha!
Noosa National Park
First time in Noosa and we learned that it is not good to go there on a weekend in December when kids are off school. It was so completely packed with people and we only managed to find a 2h parking, far away from the park, which meant that we could only see a small portion of Noosa National Park. We walked past Tea Tree Bay Beach, Dolphin Lookout and turned around at Granite Bay, just before the Fairy Pools. It was so incredibly beautiful. The colours! The incredible summer weather. 31C and the sweat was definitely running down everywhere. I loved it!
I’m really bummed that we didn’t get the chance to go all the way out to the Fairy Pools, but the more reason to come back soon. But on a weekday next time.
We saw our very first Lace Monitor lizard in Australia. I am a bit bummed that all the pictures I took was so blurry, but I had to post it anyway. I also got a really bad picture of the biggest spider I have seen yet, but that was impossible to get a focus on. It was almost as big as my palm and we caught it right in the middle of dinner. Scary stuff!
On our way back down south, we stopped at Mooloolaba to hang out with our dear Swiss friends Natascha and Vassil whom we were introduced to in the very beginning of this journey in June as the other Swedish couple. They are not Swedish, but still one of the best couples we have met here. They abandoned GC a month ago and intend on staying up in Sunny Coast. It was really nice up there, but so much smaller than Gold Coast and if job opportunities are scarce on the Goldie, we shouldn’t even say anything about Sunny… I really liked the Noosa vibe. The waves by the beaches there were non compared to where we live. It is a small workout going in the water and you have to be careful of the currents and strong waves. One day maybe!
Bemm 