I'm in New Zealand now, but will blog on that over the next couple of days as I want to write about Noosa in Queensland first. I know I've not blogged frequently of late, and plan to change this.
I visited a few days ago. It was another travel-writing freebie, but the place is so expensive that I blew a day and a half's budget in a sushi restaurant. However, they can afford to charge crazy prices because it is a little paradise with sub-tropical rain forests, perfect beaches and reliably glorious sunshine, without the mad extremes of Victoria of late, or the flooding of further north.
I tried surfing a couple of times in Colloroy, where the hostel let us use surf boards for free with only our key cards as deposit.
However, I didn't take any lessons until Noosa. I got put straight into an advanced class as the instructor thought I looked like a surfer (honestly, he said that) and they wanted to even out the numbers. If I looked like a surfer on the beach, the likeness ended when I got in the ocean. I was able to stand up, but while my fellow students glided to shore, I almost immediately crashed headfirst into the water on every attempt. It was very frustrating.
Fraser Island is stunning. I expected it to be quite touristy as it is on everyone's itinerary, but being a National Heritage site it remains virtually untouched. As well as rainforests and fresh water lakes (which were welcome after the copious amounts of sea water I drank while failing miserably to surf), there are dingoes aplenty, one of which casually wondered past. I have also seen a kowala bear, but as they are nocturnal and it was daytime, it was just sleeping.
My PR host for the trip was a lesbian and a great laugh. We had plenty in common - drinking, sports, the waitress - and bizarrely is became something of lesbian-themed three days. Once you find one, loads turn up.
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