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Habitat Noosa & Everglades
Habitat Noosa is an Eco Camping ground on 65,000 hectares in the Great Sandy National Park, 30 kilometres from Noosa. It is on the edge of Lake Cootharaba, the largest tidal lake in Queensland, and is the gateway to the Noosa Everglades.
Habitat Noosa is proud of its eco-tourism business. It respects nature and the land by using biodegradable packaging, utilising solar power for the powered sites, and naturally sourcing and treating the water.
We recently stayed at Habitat Noosa for a few days and enjoyed watching the sunrise over Lake Cootharaba. We hired a boat and meandered through the Noosa Everglades. We also watched the kangaroos in the campground at dusk and wandered along the track to Mill Point.
Lake Cootharaba is the largest tidal lake on the Noosa River; it is 25 kilometres around the perimeter and quite shallow, with an average depth of 1.5 metres. It is also the perfect place to sit back and watch the sunrise.
The CootharaBAR & Bistro has coffee, snacks, gelato, lunch and dinner daily. It also has a Microbrewery with eleven beers brewed onsite.
We enjoyed starting the day with coffee and croissants overlooking the lake. In the afternoon, we also enjoyed gelato, a lovely pizza, and a few drinks.
At Habitat Noosa, you can hire stand-up paddle boards, canoes, wave skis, kayaks and tinnies for use on Lake Cootharaba and the Noosa Everglades.
We hired a small tinny, which doesn’t require a boat licence, and took a leisurely boat ride down the Everglades.
There are only two Everglades in the world, and the other one is in Florida.
We enjoyed meandering down the tea-tree-infused waterways lined with ancient rainforests. The Everglades are nicknamed the ‘River of Mirrors,' and they provide stunning photo opportunities and a lovely, relaxing boat ride.
You can also take a boat tour with Eco Everglades Safari or kayak down the Everglades from Habitat Noosa.
At dusk, we watched the eastern grey kangaroos come into the camping and glamping areas to graze.
Several walking trails through Great Sandy National Park are available from Habitat Noosa. We wandered along the Mill Point track, an easy 1.2-kilometre return walk. Mill Point was a small township with a sawmill; it is now a heritage-listed site with several information boards and the remains of an old boiler.
Habitat Noosa has powered and unpowered campsites suitable for caravans, motorhomes, tents, swags and camper trailers. They also have Wilderness Safari Tents and Paperbark Glamping Tents.
Other facilities at Habitat Noosa include a camp kitchen, toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump point and rubbish bins.
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