Went for a quiet surf today at Noosa...does no one have to work? where do all these people come from? was packed...so after an hour and a half of sitting on the outer lip ( not wanting to be the barging sup in the line up ) watching piles of people i went home :(
Thats what ya get for living in the most populated strips of coast in the country. But at least you have waves - forgotten what they look like.
Same here on the Goldy, thats the downside of living in popular tourist destinations. I had a day off recently and decided to hit Byron for a surf......chockers full of backpackers (sooo dangerous)
But the upside is that we get regular decent surf!
I was there also the trick is get in the water early 7.30 got out at 11.00 johnsons was getting a bit crowded all right early nice waves long rides watched an older guy get one from nationals to the beach at johnson no one dropped in on him just gob smacked as he powerd down the line fun morning
Don't want to sound like a bastard, but just had some really nice waves at Bells.... 4 people out, sun out, very clean with hardly any wind, 20 degrees in the water, board-shorts.... This morning's rubbish SE swell has been replaced with a nice little SW ground swell....
Rubbish this morning, but really nice now....http://www.swellnet.com.au/reports/torquay/daily
I think what Simondo meant to say is - you definitely don't want to come down to Vicco. It's always crowded, cold, raining and mush. Best look elsewhere. 
The only way you could have a quiet surf at Noosa in the last 30 years was if you were wearing very good earplugs or it was 10 foot+
All of us Victorian's have moved up there. Beware of any body that says they are local. There were only about 1000 of them in the late seventies/early eighties
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