Sunshine Coast

I really do like the sunshine coast. Always have. We decided to head to the “Noosa North Shore”, this isn’t a flash suburb like you might expect but the main access to the beach “roads” to camping and fishing spots here. To access the area, you have to wait in line, be very patient, soak up the tranquillity and queue up for the 8 vehicle ferry that takes you across the Noosa River to areas north. We were not silly enough to actually drive onto the beach with our car, but the ferry was very busy with lots of others with their campertrailers and small boats making the trip. This is an amazing area with approximately 75 miles of pristine beach with fishing the major drawcard. You have to wait for the low tide so you can travel the 20 kms to the camp area along the beach and there are plenty of incidents where people get bogged. In fact we witnessed one today.  We were at the first access point and a small 4WD was totally bogged. There was a group of about 5 men with Irish accents – so we assumed they were back packers with little experience - desperately trying to push the totally bogged car forward, with a few women watching and encouraging them on. We suggested it might be better to try to reverse out instead of revving the engine and getting nowhere. They tried and it was successful, so now what to do. They lined up the car into a nice soft fresh deep sandy spot and hit the gas. Yes, bogged again. We watched them do this a couple of times before I couldn’t stand it any longer. I suggested they might  try driving on the hard wet sand first and head for previous car tracks that might be a little firmer to drive on. Yay, success. They parked in the car park and walked back to the beach.

We headed back to the village of Tewantin, a delightful place and sat in the sun and had some lunch. The pool at the caravan park is heated so we thought a swim was in order as Brian felt the pool this morning and declared it warm. He jumped straight in and came up spluttering declaring it a tad cooler than he thought! We basked in the sun for a while until it went behind some trees and decided Noosa Beach was the place to be. The days are quite warm but unfortunately they are having a bit of a cold spell here so it didn’t take too long before it got a wee bit cool to sit on the beach as the sun really lost its warmth quickly. Oh well, back to the van for champagne and nibblies in our trackiedacks and jumpers.

You'll be needing a snap.

This one is for those who don't know what a vehicle ferry is, we used to call them 'punts' and they were all up and down the coast. Ah, those were the days.

Vehicular Ferry or Punt. Noosa River, Tewantin, Qld