Cruisin’ along the Gold Coast
7 02 2010After a nice week in Byron Bay we headed straight up north to the Sunshine Coast to a town called Noosa. Besides many big resorts and a fancy looking main street Noosa has a nice national park. Perfect for a beautiful early morning walk when there are no waves.
Noosa
Due to the absence of swell we decided to have a look at the Hinterland (that’s how they actually call the countryside) of the Sunshine Coast. We wandered to some waterfalls and visited a nice little european influenced town called Montville.
cool off
home sweet home
It was here when we were woken up by 4 policemen at 2.30 at night, with guns and dogs. We thought a little bit too much fuss to scare away some backpackers because of ilelagal camping, but it seemd that they where looking for someone else. The police asked us a couple of questions and let us go back to sleep. The next morning we got to know that they were looking for a guy who had killed the husband of his love affair 9 years ago. Not something you would expect in beautiful Montville.
Full Moon rising over Burleigh Heads
On our way back south to the Gold Coast we spend some days at: Burleigh Heads (where Dorit lived 3 months when she did her work experience 4 years ago), Surfers Paradise (which doesn’t put up for its name) and Kirra and Coolangatta. Last two are famous worldclass pointbreak surfspots. But the southern wind was spoiling the fun of those surfspots and we heard Byron Bay had some protection for the wind. So we ended up spending another couple of beautiful days in this relaxed and alternative minded town.
Dogsitting Dolly in Byron Bay
Lighthouse Byron Bay
The last weeks of our australian episode we will spend at the Gold Coast. We will visit the Physio clinic, meet up with friends and start putting our home, which took us more than 13.000 km across the country. When the waves are fine we will surf the famous Burleigh, Kirra, Snapper or D-Bar,
Erwin @ Burleigh Point
and otherwise there is a lot of ‘Hinterland’ to explore, including Brisbane, a.k.a. Bris Vegas;-)
Hey Ihr Zwei hoffe es geht euch jut, aber wenn ich die Pic´s so sehe muss ich mir ja keine sorgen machen. AWESOME!!!
Habe den snap shot von SKYPE gesehen als ihr mit Jana und Chris telefoniert habt funny thing!!
Wünsche euch beiden noch viel Spass auf eurem Trip!!! Take Care and have FUN.
Achso super das ihr FANCY in eurer Beschreibung benutzt: Besides many big resorts and a fancy looking main street Noosa has a nice national park.
Greetz Damir
Take care down under! Seems like a dangerous place with all those murderers running around ; ).
You’re absolutely right that „Surfer’s Paradise“ does not deserve to be called like this. The real Surfer’s Paradise is Coolangatta. Too bad the wind ruined Snapper Rocks for you. It’s a looooong wave :D. Just be careful with the rocks, on our first day we almost got smashed into them…
Groetjes!
Hey ihr 2! Endlich konnte ich mal in Ruhe eure letzten Einträge lesen. Voll schööön!! Ich will auch wieder Sommer haben, kann den Schnee echt nicht mehr sehen. Sogar in Spanien schneit es.
Euch noch eine schöne Zeit in Australien und dann ja bald auf Bali – man, da werd ich jetzt schon neidisch =)
Besos
Hi ihr beiden, echt geile bilder und schön zu sehen das ihr so viel spass und eine superzeit habt! Geniesse die Zeit, ich denk an euch!!
LG Erich
AAAAAAAAAHHH, SUPERMOOIE PLAATJES!!!!
Geniet er maar vadsig van. Ziet er allemaal errug rielekst uit.
Dorit, waar zijn de actiefoto’s van het surfen? NAH?
Gaat het goed? Ben erg benieuwd.
Greeeetzzz Remy