Noosa is a lovely spot with a real laid back vibe. Free of ugly high-rise developments this small beachside town has plenty of style and pockets of wealth, mega wealth you could say (think Sandbanks with a big longboard community). We booked a lovely apartment in the hills for a couple of days. The hostels have been great but every now and then you just got to have your own place, and Noosa has plenty on offer when it comes to selfcatering options. Not to mention being able to just pop to the loo in the middle of the night and not worry about putting your pants on correctly, or not as the case maybe. Another luxury is an oven and washing machine! It certainly was time to eat something from a oven and catch up on some laundry!
The ashes are well underway and the Ozzie female has been officially
promoted to lead sit-on mower operator. Strictly a temporary
position, this promotion only lasts for a period of 6 weeks. After this point normal service will resume. We are sat overlooking Noosa,
a respectable 28 degrees, ashes on regular tv, working through a pot
of tea with a mince pie in hand. How good can it get?
We ventured over to Eumundi for the twice weekly market. This place has managed to pull off a Fremantle kinda of feel.
A very laid back sort of place that makes you feel good about yourself. Eumundi market has over 200 stalls with everything from food, jewellery, local crafts and artwork. Great way to spend a Saturday morning. Of course Dave managed to buy a few 'treasures'.
Noosa is a renowned spot for longboarders with Noosa Heads providing plenty of choice when it comes to riding long peeling point breaks, Tea Tree, Little Cove and First Point to mention but a few. Outside of the busy weekend we hired a longboard for the day, within the the excitment of the shop we momentarily forgot the actual size of our present wheels being similar to a roller boot style car. With only a small way to go though she was ok to drive with a foot or so hanging out back. Before running from the hire enquired whether any thin wetsuits where up for hire, to which the reply came in the most deepest of ozzy acsents "ohhhh mate you don't need a wettie here mate, this is the sunshine coast, you'd be roasting matey in a wettie up here'. How the poms smiled. With the Getzs fully loaded we headed for Sunshine beach, a bit messy though as a onshore was blowing a fair bit. No change by the avro it was time to move onto a small cove that was just round the headland, which from the headland road looked to have some pretty nice attractive peeling waves just forming out at the point. We were parked up and in like a shot. Great to be on the board with just boardies. For the next couple of hours we had a easy time just picking waves up as they came though off the point. Talk of a tale of two bays. Great conditions though knowing that round the head it was blowing a right Hollie!
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