Noosa Everglades

We packed up once again and travelled a little further down the coast to the Habitat Noosa Everglades resort. We have been here many times and just love walking in amongst the kangaroos, which come into the site to eat the grass.
Our journey was delayed by flood waters which closed the quickest routes for us to the location. We needed to travel via Noosaville to avoid road closures and even then our last leg required us to pass over flooded sections of the road.
A lot of rain had fallen in the area. The lake, which is the largest salt water lake in Australia had risen about 4 ft above normal levels. The site usually has a string of campers along the waterfront, but all those pitches were flooded and unusable. The large pitches in the dell were also completely underwater. The beach was completely underwater and all boat hire and tours cancelled for three days.
Our pitch (no 28) was clear so we were soon all sorted.
We fell into the bar for a refresher prior to our evening meal. Children were enjoying playing in the water filled pitches. Kangaroos bounced around us, some in touching distance.
We had planned a quick evening meal, as it happened it was even quicker than anticipated. Turning on the lights in the tent brought in hundreds of little beetles which swamped our food prep area. We had our meal in the sanctuary of the tent.
In the morning we put up the awning front and side panels in order to prevent a repeat.
On Monday the sun was shining once again, so we drove into Noosa Heads to enjoy some time on the beach. The surf was great fun as usual. A Boost fruit juice as we came off the beach was very refreshing.
Some of the flood waters on our approach to the site had receded, and we could see that the level of the lake was dropping.
Tuesday saw us do the Noosa Heads walk, one of our favourites. This time we passed along Alexandria Beach and after a wrong turning eventually back to the car park by the tanglewood track. Lots of dolphins were playing off dolphin point and we saw them surfing the waves. On our return to base we took in the Laguna Lookout.
On Wednesday we drove to Eumundi Markets, one of the busiest markets in the Sunshine Coast region. Rain showers came rushing through. We spent much of our time there dodging heavy showers as we dodged from one stall to another. We have visited this market many times and never seen it this quiet. A combination of term time and heavy rain we suspect being the reason for this.
When we returned to the campsite we found the beach was exposed and water levels in the lake back to normal.
On Thursday we drove to Sunshine beach and walked the coast path towards Perigean beach. We were once again caught in a couple of rain showers, so we returned quite damp to our car. We then drove to Perigean Beach and found a fabulous cafe (Perigean Pantry). The coffee, chocolate brownie and carrot cake were all fabulous.
On Friday after breakfast we drove into Noosa Marina and walked along the river to Noosa Heads, Hastings Street. The weather quite changeable with showers and sunshine, sometimes at the same time. The river was as busy as usual. As we got to Noosa Main Beach a heavy shower breezed through. We resisted the temptation to get a bus back to the marina and enjoyed an ice cream at 72 Flavours on our return. Weary from our lengthy (16kms plus) walk when we reached camp again.Læs mere