Cos I don't travel enough, I also went to Noosa (and will be going to Tassie this weekend if the volcano stops having it's way with us) for the weekend. Sonny wanted to have a surf without the wetsuit before winter really kicked in so we went in search of surf.
Now, I'm sorry to disappoint the whole world (it seems), but Noosa really doesn't do a lot for me. Sure, it's got pretty beaches, but so does most of Australia. I just find it all a little, um, charmless.
Self portrait on beach while Sonny surfed too far away from my lens…
Ooooh, look. It's a golden syrup river!
I love the way it looked.
But, no, I would not be the one surfing in it's run-off
Bit of tree decoration…
(If what 'they' say is true, about the shoes over the power lines meaning there's a drug-dealer living nearby, I wonder what the thongs in the tree mean?)
…which the Queenslanders obviously go for
(I love this one at Eumundi)
I dragged Sonny to the Ginger Factory. I remembered the amazing smells of the ginger flowers when I was there in high summer many years ago – of course, this was not high summer. The flowers weren't out. Except for these beauties
We stayed at the Sheraton.
Billed as "the only five-star resort in Noosa", and a winner of awards, it sounded like it would be pretty great.
The pool is huge, and has a swim-up bar (but it wasn't really swimming weather), and the rooms are very generously proportioned, but please, that is where it ends!
Pink and grey colour scheme on the outside is barely palatable
Then you head inside to corridors that have been decorated in what appears to have been an attempt at a bright tropical sea-scape, but has the effect of an oppressive, fluorescent, Shining-esque tunnel-du-freak instead.
Flimsy, not five-star towels…
… and the worst part is the Golden Girls style pink and grey decor inside!
C'mon Sheraton. Time for an upgrade if you are calling yourself five star!
Who makes these ratings anyway? Even the Westin is slipping – when we stayed there for fashion week, my dressing gown had a hole in it, and the room wasn't cleaned properly. I should be a hotel critic. 5 star should equal faultless.
Moving on to even sadder news.
I love Australia's 'bigs', and was looking forward to cheesy moments with Sonny at the Big Pineapple.
So sad to turn up there and find it closed down.
I hope this doesn't signal further demises of our important cultural icons!
It's bloody un-Australian!
Sonny followed the lack of surf from Noosa to Kirra, before we headed back to Brissy airport on our second (and last) day, but it was beautiful light that afternoon…
Rainbow Beach..
Gold Coast skyline in the background..
Busy waves..
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