20.11.2018 | Australia, Travel

The beautiful Sunshine Coast and Surfing in Noosa Nationalpark

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G´day my loves! In this post, I wanna tell you about everything the Surfer – Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane has to offer. I am speaking about 60 km long white sand beaches and subtropical climate all year long. In the winter (June to August) you can expect around 22 degrees, in summertime until 28-degree average temperature. Besides the long sandy beaches, the Sunshine Coast has beautiful national parks and hilly landscape to explore!

Overnight stay at Dicky Beach

When you are driving out of Brisbane to explore the sunshine coast, you can use a secret free rest area in the first section of the Sunshine-Coast, like we did: Dicky Beach! It is a parking space directly near the ocean and according to the app wikicamps nobody cares about camper vans, more precisely there will be no Rangers. We shared the place with another camper van until 6 am – then it became really really crowded in a positive way! We were surrounded by locals, walking their dog, going for a walk and most of them simply went for a surfing session before work. The waves were pretty high and the morning air freezingly cold – Australian surfers don´t care at all. A few older men came back from their morning swim and asked us pretty amazed, why we don´t like to jump into the cold water immediately 🙂

3 times an M: Mooloolaba Beach, Maroochydore, Marcoola

We then moved on along the coast street stopping at Mooloolaba Beach. We behaved like real Australians checking the wind and the wave conditions at the different beaches driven by our excitement for another surf. We stopped next to a skate park and watched a few surfers in the pretty high monster waves. Next, we drove to Maroochydore, another surfer beach, followed by Marcoola after crossing a bridge. We had the best view from the “Point Arkwright” for observing the ocean and the breakwaters.

Noosa Heads National Park

We found a perfect and relaxed atmosphere in the little town Noosa and the national park Noosa Heads. There were beautiful cafés and a lot of nice shops in the little shopping street. This place is very popular amongst locals, too. We rent two surfboards (size 7.4) and short wetsuits for 70 AUS Dollar and 4 hours at the “Golden Breed Surf Noosa” shop. We then drove with our campervan and the surfboards through the beautiful roads of the national park. We drove until the end of the jungle roads to a parking space, passing a river until we reached the ocean. From here you can walk by foot with the surfboards under your arms to the protected Noosa Main Beach. On all the other beaches the monster waves were pretty high, but at this beach, the waves were formed very long and smooth. There was sandy soil and the water was waist-deep until far out the ocean. We had so much fun surfing there! Riding the long waves felt amazing. Suddenly we saw pretty dark clouds on the horizon. The sun had just been shining, and all at once it started to rain extremely. The best sing being on a surfboard in the ocean is: you don´t care about getting wet ;), the opposite – it was so funny in the heavy rain. There were a few other surfers, everyone enjoyed the natural spectacle. We felt a simple, sublime notion of being at one with nature and the sea. This was topped by a double rainbow on the horizon. Some other surfers act a little bit annoying but all in all the surfers were pretty nice as in New South Wales and we had great small talks especially with one old man with a white beard :)! On our way back to the camper we walked a beauuuuutiful path through the jungle of the national park. The highlight was definitely the outdoor rainforest-shower, there wasn´t anything better to do after surfing. It was simply PERFECT! We took back the boards and felt overjoyed.

   Anxious about sharks?

Again and again, people asked us, if Australia isn´t pretty dangerous? Isn´t there a white shark? And yes, there are these dangerous animals – I don´t deny. And of course, I am afraid of these animals. But you have to be objective: There are so little shark attacks in relation to the thousands of surfers in the water everywhere around Australia! I read it is more likely to swallow a pen and die than to ever experience a shark attack. I think that’s the only way you can deal with it. My motto is that I am careful if there is an obvious danger and to trust my common sense, but I don´t want to let my fears to prevent something I really want to do. I think if you really want to live and to experience adventures it involves a certain degree of risk. While surfing no one speaks about sharks – they simply don´t want to speak about that in the water!

Second surfing session – No worries!

It rained all night long, but it was extremely comfy in our camper van. The next day the waves at the other beaches were pretty high as the day before. Therefore we went again to Noosa Main Beach for another day surfing. This time we rent our boards (size 7,8) and wetsuits for 60 AUS Dollar and 4 hours at “Underground Surf” in Noosa. The waves at Noosa Main Beach were a lot higher than the day before, therefore we could learn to come up from our boards in pretty powerful waves. It was very exhausting to paddle out without getting knocked from the board due to the sequence of overlapping waves. Far out we saw the monster waves. With time we dared to go further out, however, the professional surfers hadn´t an easy ride as well at this day ;). Afterward, we used the outdoor rainforest-shower again and took back the boards. Because we wanted to be early in Tin Can Bay for dolphins the next morning, we drove a little distance until we reached a free rest area just behind “Ross Creek”, after a bridge on the right side. There were a few other campers as well. *** Dieser Artikel enthält Werbung, da Marken genannt werden.