Back to Noosa!

For starters, this post is a little outdated but we didn't put it up properly the first time and wanted to include because Noosa has been one of our favourite places so far!

Starts the day we got back from our Fraser Island adventure, which happened to be our one year anniversary so we got a great room at a tiny hostel and went out for our best meal yet, shrimp rossini and tzaziki pizza (all the restaurants do wood fire pizzas, soooo good!), finished a couple bottles of byo wine then went back and watched the finale of our Law and Order season (again!). :) The next morning we caught a terribly smelling bus back to Noosa because we wanted to hang out somewhere cool while Dev rested his ankle (don't worry, old injury now :)).



Sandcastle made by a busker in Noosa

Our first night we checked into a YHA hostel called the Halse Lodge. It's in a beautiful two-storey timber building built in the 1800's with wrap-around verandahs filled with couches and chairs. The hostel's computer tech gave us a ride to the shopping centre where we had our virus removed off our memory stick then we spent the evening hanging out and playing cards and finally went for an evening walk along the beach where we saw the most amazing sandcastle!

The next day we checked back into Nomad's where we met Kat, a Scot and Ana, another Irish :). We made our first legitimate job attempt and had our first interview in years :) It actually went really well aside from the fact that neither one of us had any cooking experience but the cafe was located in the Eurmundi markets, quite outside the city centre, so we weren't thrilled about it (Beach bums we are :)) After the interview, we finished the day off at the beach (after all our hard work :)) and then met up with our roomies to grab free bbq at Irish Murphy's Tribal Night. The highlight of the evening was meeting a group of Irish who hadn't been able to survive the Gagaju bush camp we had recently been to and had come back early! Loads of funny stories to share! :)



At the main beach in Noosa



On Tuesday, we each handed out one token job application then hit the beach. After dinner it was cheap night at the movies so we saw Dinner for Shmucks (they are so behind in their movies here!). That movie gets funnier a couple of days after you see it. :) And another beach day on Wednesday where I crazy burnt the backs of my legs (reminded me of Liz and Amy after Miami :)) Then we went for free pizza and beers at the pub. (Dev decided that night that he doesn't like egg on his pizza :)) Highlight of Thursday after some errands (the memory stick again) was buying our Southeast Asia Lonely Planet and trying out Red Rooster for the first time. It's similar to the fast food aspect of Swiss Chalet crossed with KFC and pretty gross :)

After booking our sailing trip the next day, we hung out by the pool where we met a cool New Zealander who also ended up sharing our room. By then we had had two noisy Swedish girls, a crazy saxaphone maker (who was like forty and really weird) as well as an Austrian guy so we were pretty happy about that :) Dev and I had beers at the hostel bar then chatted with the roomies until the saxaphone maker got in an arguement with the Austrian about tipping? :)

Haircut in the beach

Just for a change of scenery, the next day we booked a room at the Lonely Planet top pick of hostels in Noosa (Dolphin's Beach House). We hated the place but shared the room with a cool Irish couple. It rained all afternoon so we watched (didn't really hear as they keep putting flat screens against cement walls) Ray and checked out Sunshine Beach again. We saw our first jellyfish (unfortunately is now the season). We bought some wine and the fine ingredients for mushroom soup and rice (Dev did not approve :)) and I gave Dev his first ever haircut on the beach and it wasn't half bad! :)

A future project

Last but not least, the last day in Noosa was our day trip we had booked. We had given our extra ticket we won to Steve, the New Zealander. The weather wasn't great but it was good fun. We wandered around the Eurmundi Markets, a twice weekly hippie market with 500 stalls. Some neat things like never-dull nail files and scrabble piece cuff links and huge wooden tables and benches made out of full tree lengths (Dev's favourite :), he'll be an old man with a woodworking set someday).

The bus then took us to Kondalilla National Park where there was a 80 metre waterfall and a rock pool at the top to swim in, although the three of us were the only ones to brave the water! The water was great and we could swim right up under a smaller part of the falls although I was pretty nervous as the guide said sometimes things like logs come over it! :) We had a "sausage sizzle" lunch (they love to say that here :)), Dev had four!! and then we went to Montville, a small touristy village. We had coffees at a lookout restaurant then went to the Glasshouse Mountains. It was fairly cloudy so could just see them, they are actually old volcanic crags so some pretty cool shapes. Then we did another rainforest walk (Dev says he's done with the rainforest, so spoiled :)) where we saw some mini kangaroos and headed home. :)

View from Montville coffe shop