Photos from Noosa

Here are some photos from our trip to Noosa over Easter weekend. We had a fantasic weekend - especially as it was my first proper holiday since I moved to Aussie in July last year. No my recent trips to NZ don't count as holidays as they have been flat out doing wedding preparation, working and visiting the dentist. We manged to get a great little room on wotif.com in a resort right on the Noosa river for only $99 a night - sweet :-) And since the public transport system had free travel all Easter weekend on the new GO card system (like the oyster cards in London) we travelled all weekend for free as we took the train & bus to Noosa instead of getting stuck in awful traffic like everyone else. Yay!

Enjoying a Copenhagen icecream while waiting out the rain.

Going for a walk in Noosa National Park.
We did the big loop track that went through the bush and then followed the coastline on the way back.

Scary "Paul Monster" in the bush. Apparently this is a grade 4 track - right!!!! We didn't even see any snakes, although Paul freaked me out enough as we were leaving that I was positive I was going to find one.

Half way point. Views out over the nudist beach :-) No there weren't any there that day ;-) Although there was a kite surfer going for gold and a huge rip.

This plane went past overhead and I got this really cool pic - so I had to include it.

Another view out near then nudist beach. It was a bit "breezy" by Wellington standards but it was very refreshing as we'd been walking for about an hour.

Mary Poppins waiting for the bus to go to the Eumundi markets on Saturday morning.

Me at the Eumundi markets on Saturday morning. We arrived nice and early at 6:35 so that we could wander around before the hordes of tourists arrived. It was totally worth it as we got to take our time and see everything. The markets were huge and contained really good stuff. Often you go to markets and they just sell lots of junk. But the stuff they were selling here was great and mostly at pretty good prices too. I am SO going back :-)

Paul at the Eumundi markets. This was the one quiet spot we could find to get a decent pic - right by the rubbish bins (that you can't see - phew).
I love markets - YAY! And going was Paul's idea as he knows how much I love markets. Isn't he lovely :-)

One of our purchases. A very cool thermometer set in wood. It now sits in our lounge so that we really know how hot/cold we are. This may be scary come winter as it's already getting cold in our house at night. I've already started wearing bed socks - hmmm.

Our new clock - picture of the Brisbane river. Was very cheap - only cost about $30. We thought this would be a great memento of our time here should we move away from Brisbane.