Final-community Guide 03 04

                             WHERE’S
                                                NOOSA
I f you get the tape measure out at Noosa
  Hill, we are 150 km north of Brisbane on
Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, at Longitude
                                                The Sunshine Coast Airport at Mudjimba in
                                                neighbouring Maroochy Shire lies about 20
                                                minutes’ drive from Noosa and is serviced daily
153 º 06     minutes (or                        by flights to and from Brisbane, Sydney and
153.10º)      east     and                                         Melbourne. For schedule
Latitude 26º 23 minutes                                            details, please telephone
(or 26.39º) south.                                                 131    313     (Qantas)     or
                                                                   13 67 89 (Virgin Blue).
Thanks to the Sunshine
Motorway and Bruce                                                 Airport management also
Highway, these days the                                            plan direct charter flights
journey from Brisbane                                              to and from New Zealand.
by car takes about 90                                              Airport users may leave
minutes. By rail, you                                              vehicles in secured parking.
take   the     train    to                                         Alternatively, local services
Nambour,      north     of                                         convey       you   and    your
Brisbane, connecting with a Sunbus service to   baggage to and from the Sunshine Coast
Noosa - a comfier trip, no doubt, than the      Airport, or Brisbane Airport.
1897 journey for the newspaper
reporter who left Brisbane at
8 o’clock and spent four hours on the
train to reach Cooroy. Our ink-
stained hero then took the coach
down along a winding, hilly track
through scrub to Tewantin and “was
rowed to the sand spit by boat,
sometimes under sail as the water
route was much pleasanter and
shorter than land.”