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Mike and Connie · 22-04-2007, 01:03 PM

Hi Caz
Hopefully you wont have such a long wait as us .I believe that POPC had a shortage of manpower through 2006 but plans were in place to staff up,so maybe they will be a bit quicker now.
We're heading for Melbourne which is where our son and his wife live. We too had hols in 2000 and 2004/5 and spent some time at Noosa,we really liked that area.It was February and it wasn't overly hot or humid,not like Port Douglas which is a beautiful area but very hot and muggy. It was frustrating to be walking along the beach at Port Douglas and not be able to go in the water because of the stingers.
Whilst we were at Noosa we hired a car and did some driving around that area and went to the Australia Zoo at Beerwah. Fantastic .We were extremely lucky to pick a day when Steve Irwin was there doing one of his shows.What a showman he was,such a sad loss to the world.
A couple of hours north of Noosa there is a place called Tin Can Bay,where supposedly every day dolphins come in to pier and can be fed by hand(controlled by animal warden),but the very day we went they didn't actually come in apparently because of a cyclone raging just offshore,they'd gone somewhere else for safety. Still there were other things there such as pelicans.
Anyway Good Luck for the future,hope you hear something soon
Mike and Connie.

22-04-2007, 01:03 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mike and Connie Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bonbeach.(VIC 3196) Posts: 125 Thanks: 7 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	CPvisa Hi Caz Hopefully you wont have such a long wait as us .I believe that POPC had a shortage of manpower through 2006 but plans were in place to staff up,so maybe they will be a bit quicker now. We're heading for Melbourne which is where our son and his wife live. We too had hols in 2000 and 2004/5 and spent some time at Noosa,we really liked that area.It was February and it wasn't overly hot or humid,not like Port Douglas which is a beautiful area but very hot and muggy. It was frustrating to be walking along the beach at Port Douglas and not be able to go in the water because of the stingers. Whilst we were at Noosa we hired a car and did some driving around that area and went to the Australia Zoo at Beerwah. Fantastic .We were extremely lucky to pick a day when Steve Irwin was there doing one of his shows.What a showman he was,such a sad loss to the world. A couple of hours north of Noosa there is a place called Tin Can Bay,where supposedly every day dolphins come in to pier and can be fed by hand(controlled by animal warden),but the very day we went they didn't actually come in apparently because of a cyclone raging just offshore,they'd gone somewhere else for safety. Still there were other things there such as pelicans. Anyway Good Luck for the future,hope you hear something soon Mike and Connie.