Noosa National Park

In the name of independent adulthood Nicole and I strike out the next day on our own for what we hope will be an epic bushwalk round Noosa Heads and the forests up there, but which due to a mapreading error turns out to be a mildly taxing stroll.

We head off from the best organised NP I've seen so far down a trail which soon takes us into rainforest with some pretty nice grass trees and paperbarks and quite a variety of forest types which eventually gives out onto the East shore overlooking the Coral Sea where the waves are lashing in against a Cornwall-a-like cove called the Hell's Gates (a slight exaggeration methinks) where we have a spot to eat while looking down at the sea turtles braving the surge and Alexandria Beach nestled behind the headlands.

We walk back along the coast road and stop a while at various places before meeting up with the others back in town and going for a cruise on the river as the sun goes down.