After bombing down the Bruce Highway from our trip to Fraser Island to Noosa, it takes us about as long to find a bottle shop to get some evening booze for our Big4 home. Still Noosa is a lovely place, very reminiscent of the South of France - bars and restaurants that wouldnt look out of place along the croisette, and nice properties that are very tempting. We find some great coastal walks along past the surfers for some amazing views. There's also a giant lizard-y salamander-y thing-y strolling around the car park. Anyway after a bit of free McDo wifi, avoiding the rain, we're all set for our accommodation for the rest of the drive down the coast. We're going to cover some kilometres...
Its not far from Noosa to Brisbane, and to avoid arriving too early, we divert around the Glasshouse Mountains, after considering stopping off at Steve Irwin's zoo en route. (Budget says no.) Anyway there are some good views, and after a bit of a tramp around we're back on the way to Brisbane. Its a cool city, but we soon tire of walking around, se hit the pub for a drink, and then head to the beach. Its kinda what London tried to do with a beach down by the Thames, but a lot nicer! Brisbane is the only place that didnt have a BIG4 cabin available for us, so we're all jammed into a funny backpacker place. As a treat, its dinner out rather than Luce slaving over the hot stove.
Leaving Brisbane, we heading south to the Gold Coast. Surfer's Paradise is a bit odd, just loads of sky scraper buildings, so we dont stop long, just for an hour on the beach, and head on to Ballina, home of the giant prawn, and next door to Byron Bay. Byron has a much nicer feel to it than SP - much more chilled, and more interesting places to hang out. There is also a great walk to the most Easterly Point in all of Australia, which seems to be on everyone who has since been to Australia's facebook photos.
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