Sunshine Coast Coastal Pathway - Noosa Heads to Mudjumba Beach (Day 1 of 3)

This morning we drove to Mudjimba Beach, parked the car and caught the bus to Noosa Heads.

https://www.queensland.com/sg/en/places-to-see/destination-information/p-56b25d9e2880253d74c450a0-noosa-heads 

From the Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club we walked along the boardwalk to Noosa National Park. We took the Coastal Walk, which again was unfortunately detouring away from Hells Gates.  We continued on to Alexandria Bay and then down the many steps to the northern end of Sunshine Beach.  

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/coastal-walk

From here we were able to walk along the beach all the way to Coolum Beach.  There were a number of small creeks flowing out into the ocean, but all were crossable, including Stumer's Creek.  We stopped for lunch at Tickle Park in overlooking Coolum Beach. 

https://www.queensland.com/us/en/places-to-see/destination-information/p-56b25e30aeeeaaf773cf066b-coolum-beach

https://www.tourismsunshinecoast.com.au/coolum/tickle-park-coolum/

From here we continued south on the Sunshine Coast Coastal Pathway up and over the headlands at Point Arkwright and down onto Yaroomba Beach.  

https://web-a-e-prod-marketing.azurewebsites.net/SunshineCoastCoastalPathwayGuide/SunshineCoastCoastalPathwayGuide.html#p=1

https://www.yaroombabeach.com.au/

We then continued south along the beachfront to Mudjimba.  

https://www.visitsunshinecoast.com/attraction/58084090d4ad38722cd1e7c6/mudjimba-beach

Totals 32.84km 7h47m plus lunch break

Noosa National Park - Headland Section

Another Sunshine Coast local hike today. We parked in Noosa Heads and walked to the National Park as there is rarely any car parks free in or near Noosa National Park entrance. 

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa

We began with the Tanglewood Walk. This normally allows you to link up to Hell's Gates but unfortunately this area was closed for work.

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/tanglewood-walk

The Coastal Walk took use back along the coastline towards the Noosa entrance to the National Park. It was impressive to see the amount of fresh water pouring out of the hillside from the recent heavy rain. The erosion around the roots of the trees was amazing, literally the only thing holding the hillside together was the fine network of roots.

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/coastal-walk

Last up was the Noosa Hill walk.  This states there are limited views, and this is certainly true but there are some views on the way up and it is a nice walk through the bush.

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/noosa-hill-walk

Noosa National Park was full of people, all the tracks we used and the walk to and from parking in Noosa Heads were very popular with plenty of people out and about enjoying a reprieve from the rain.

Noosa National Park - Emu Mountain Section and Peregian Section

No time to get away on holidays at the moment, so snuck in another local short hike.  We parked at the southern end of the Emu Mountain section of Noosa National Park (note there is no formal carpark, just an entry point off a residential street). First up was the Hakea Walk.  This heads through coastal bushland. On reaching the road we turned right, walked along a short way and then turned right back into the National Park on the Emu Mountain Summit Walk.

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/hakea-walk

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/emu-mountain-summit-walk

At the summit we paused to admire the view, which was surprisingly good given the poor weather and the short climb.

We returned to the Hakea Walk via a link track which you can see from the summit. After a period we turned left onto another link track that took us through to David Low Way.

After crossing David Low Way we walked the short Ocean Beach Walk through the swampy land behind the dunes and spent some time atop the dunes watching the wind whip the top off the wild waves.  As it was high tide and rough it was not a day for lingering on the shore.

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/noosa/journeys/ocean-beach-walk