Brisbane to Noosa

We had a lovely time staying at Carli & David's place nth of Brisbane. On Monday we caught the train into Brisbane and had a look around South Bank, had lunch at a Turkish restaurant, then did a river cruise on the Citycat.  On Monday night Carli had invited Yvonne and Rob (the other couple that we met on our European tour) and their neighbours, Lyn & Ian over for dinner.  It was great to catch up with them all - we had a lovely meal, a good bottle of wine (or two) and a really great fun night with lovely people.  We can certainly recommend Carli's B&B - next morning we had eggs benedict for breakfast before setting off for Noosa to meet up with Peter & Dee.

We arrived at the Noosa Caravan Park around 10.30am and started setting up, with Pete & Dee arriving half an hour later.  Again, sites were very small, and we were parked right next to the camp kitchen.  Not too bad, except that at around 12.00 midnight a very thoughtful young man decided he had to call home (somewhere in Europe) and decided that he wouldn't disturb anyone where he was located, and instead came up to the camp kitchen to have his phone call, right next to where we were sleeping!  I was not impressed, and at around 12.15 I called out and reminded him (very nicely, honestly!) that people were trying to sleep and could he please keep the noise down.  No response, and no change in volume.  After another gentle reminder about 15 mins later, there was still no change - so at 12.45 Trev went out and spoke to him.  Apparently, he was making the phone call with earphones in, so had no idea how loud he was being, and that we had called out to him earlier.  He left immediately, and finally we were able to get to sleep.

Today Dee & I decided to go to Eumundi Markets and leave the boys back at camp to fiddle around with cars.  We had a lovely day shopping - fantastic markets, lots of different stuff, and no boys around to hurry us up - great!   Our lunch was interesting - we had 'slinkies' which were spiral potatoes deep-fried and served on sticks (delicious) and some really lovely salt & pepper calamari.  Bought a few interesting things then headed back to the caravan park.

Then we headed into Noosaville/Noosa and wandered around the Rivers store, then Hastings Street and ended up having cocktails and dinner at Jacks on Hastings.  Food was lovely, as were the cocktails.  Back to the cara park to get ready for Fraser Island tomorrow.