Day thirty was immense, and even without advance planning was one of the many highlights of the trip. The beach and the Hastings street restaurant strip was so good, we wanted a bit more of it, so decided to take our friendly bus drivers advice and head down into Noosa Heads.

As luck would have it, we excelled with the parking.

Driving right down Hastings Street, which is likely Noosa’s busiest place, we continued past the end of the street, which we discovered by chance, takes you into the Car Park for Noosa Nationak Park. As it was a Monday morning, it was quitish, apart from the ever-present surfing community (every break in every town).

We secured the required four-bays of parking, headed down the beach path and we were on the beach. Job done or what!

The beach path dropped us probably one K away from Noosa’s imgainatively titled “Main Beach” which was perfect. A short walk admiring the beach ambience and we were back at our new favourite beach.

Having survived the one K walk, it was another great beach session had by all.

Well that was until Jimi lost an argument with a beach-break.

Beach-break one, Jimi nil. Poor old Jimi was enjoying the bodysurfing when he picked a bit of hollow wave to surf which pretty much dumped him head first into the beach. Although it has a comedy element to it, it was actually a fair old hit, and we took him up to the surf lifesaving hut for a bit of a patch-up. Good old betadine saved the day, but it did put an end to Jimi’s body surfing coz everything was stinging. But that’s ok, coz there was food to eat and ice-cream to be dribbled literally metres away at one of the many foodie-icecreamy places on Hastings street.

As the beach day was over for now, we tried our hand at one of the beachy, nature walks that we’d spotted on one of the maps. The coastline around Noosa looked stunning so it sounded like a good thing to do.

It was this one here ….

Unfortunately, we couldn’t find it.

We did have a good walk along the Sunshine Beach track, but where it was supposed to join the coastal walk, it was nowhere to be seen. And by this time, some of the little people on our magical mystery tour were becoming less than impressed and demanding ice creams, so that was the end of that. Bit of a shame, as all of our walks on this trip had so far been great, but this one was not to be. What we did see looked amazing though. There was plenty of surf on Sunshine Beach and more of the stunning coastline. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it, but we liked Noosa just a bit.

After the failed walk and the rescue ice-cream, we returned back to Noosa Heads.

There was a walk over the headland that we had yet to look at, and it looked good. Unfortunately, Mazzy’s legs were incredibly tired (allegedly), and so it meant the walk was only for me and Jimi.

It was yet more great scenery from Noosa Heads, and the walk was surprisingly impressive.

That was pretty much it for the day. The evening feed was from a local Chinese somewhere in Tewantin. We have noticed, that the better the day, the less we can be bothered with a home-cooked bbq-salad combo. I’m not sure we fully factored that in, but such a great vibe from days like this is fully deserving of a lazy finish to the day.

Tomorrow, we have to leave Noosa. None of us will be too happy about that but also wondering what the next place will be like. We’ll find out soon so stay tuned.