Noosa!

After a 2 hour flight to Brisbane, and a 2 hour bus transfer to Noosa Heads, we made it.

The driver from Brizzy airport to Noosa just kept going on and on about how if we didn't drown in the riptide, the spiders would kill us, and if they didn't get us, the king brown snake would kill us, oh yeah and don't forget the mosquitos all have malaria and dengue... Dude sucked.

Anyways we shrugged that off, checked into this palace of a hostel, and headed straight to the beach. An easy 10 minute walk (see pic below) brought us to the beach, and we hopped right in.

It just stopped raining and wasn't sunny, but we didn't care. Water was amazing. Huge waves made body boarding really, really, good... Definitely going to get a surfboard tomorrow or something.

I paid for my accommodation through wednesday, but have made friends with a few other people who are working here for a few hours a day and as a result staying for free. Another guy is working 6 hours a day as a handyman getting $300/week and free accommodation. Not bad I guess. We'll see in the next few days here what I decide to do.

Apparently this hostel is the only one in the area with a bar inside of it, so at night all the backpackers swarm this place. Met tons of people last night, mostly english, german, and irish. A few dutch, a few french. To my delight, no other americans.

Definitely will get up to Fraser Island.

I guess the popular plan of action is to rent a 4x4 for 2 nights and 3 days, tents and camping equipment included. Camping on the beach. Sounds unreal. Theres a stretch of continuous beach on Fraser Island that goes for 75 miles! Guess there are tons of tiger sharks on that coast for whatever reason, and swimming there is pretty risky. Don't worry ma, I'll stick to the freshwater lakes on Fraser.