Noosa Beach
Noosa Heads National Park
The Oz Experience bus will stop at the Transit Centre at Noosa Heads for a break. Enough time to pick and drop off more travellers and perhaps grab an ice cream.
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Noosa Heads is is so popular mainly because of its safe swimming beach and warm climate year round. It has certainly seen some development but no big apartment towers overhang the beach like at Surfers Paradise.
Noosa, located 146 km north of Brisbane, was originally a sleepy little village beside the sea known only to a few fishermen and beachcombers. The first European to come to Noosa to ‘get away from it all’ was the convict ‘Wandi’ (David Bracefell) who managed to escape from Moreton Bay regularly. Each time he escaped he fled north and lived with the Noosa Aborigines. Between 1828 and 1839 he escaped four times. He accompanied Henry Russell Petrie’s exploration of the coast in 1842 and was involved in the rescue of Eliza Fraser on Fraser Island.
The Noosa National Park, located on the headland beyond Little Cove which is only a short walk from the Noosa town centre, is a small coastal park in which birds and small mammals find refuge. The bushwalks, beautiful scenery, the string of bays, the noted swimming and surfing beaches and the picnic spots all stand in sharp contrast to the urbanity of the nearby Noosa shopping centre. Five walking tracks of varying length start from the park entrance at the end of Park Rd where there is an information centre.
Home and resting place of the world famous ‘Crocodile Hunter’, Steve Irwin, his equally crazy mates, and also a great deal of animals. There is a courtesy coach from Noosa and Mooloolaba - It is essential to book the courtesy bus. For further information call (07) 5436 2000.
Bus Departs Noosa and Mooloolaba: • 8:30am: Noosa Heads Bus Stop (Noosa Parade) • 9:25am: River Esplanade bus stop, Mooloolaba Bus Departs Australia Zoo: • 4:00pm: Depart Australia Zoo (Entrance)
