Noosa - Day 5

A particularly early start today saw me standing at the top of Noosa Hill at 6am - of course I wasn’t alone as everyone in Queensland seems to get up at 5am (due to the ridiculous lack of daylight savings time I reckon).  After the hill climb I carried on with my ‘normal’ Noosa National Park run but this time in reverse, which gave me some nice views I hadn’t paid much attention to before. 

Then it was home to pack up and tidy up and leave the apartment for the final time. Arriving at the Eumundi Markets at 8.30am  - just half an hour after they opened -  I was amazed at how many people were there already. I was also amazed that they wanted to charge $6 for parking! Outrage.  Thankfully I found one of the last free parks as I didn’t want to commit to $6 worth of browsing.   One (of the many) nice things about Noosa is that all the parking is free, and although busy, there’s usually something available nearby - it must get pretty crazy between Christmas and New Year though.

After an hour I’d had enough of the stalls - but I still had heaps of time up my sleeve so I headed to the Glasshouse  Mountains. 

By this time it was midday, and time to drive the last stretch south to Brisbane in my cute little hire car which I always found easily in the car parks! 

I used less than one tank of petrol on my whole trip - my total fuel bill was $38.  Nice!

And so ended my trip to Noosa. It was heaps of fun. As I mentioned it lacked a bit of the rest and relax factor, but it was (mostly) good to get out and about an do stuff - and also great to get back into some running.    Noosa is a really nice place - filled with a big range of people from backpackers to family campers to massive house & infinity pool owners.  There’s lots of stuff to do - and the commercial activities on offer seem to be pretty cheap thanks to the all competition for tourist dollars - being able to rent a dinghy for $99 for 3 hours, or a bike for $30 for 24 hours, or a stand up paddle board for less than $20 seems like a good deal to me.  

Yep, so it’s a really cool place. And I’ll be back. Hopefully next time with family and/or friends to enjoy it with. Not that I’m not great company, but I do wear on myself after a while :)