I keep looking at this forum, trying to think of a subject to get some discussion going.
Topics on fins are always great, but what's left to ask/discuss?
We're off to Waikiki in May next year, and the board hire prices at Koa Boardsports seem quite high these days, so was going to ask about traveling with a board, but sucking it up paying close to $400 AUD for a weeks rental seems easier and less risky. Sadly, they now seem to want to charge $20 USD to change over hire boards... that used to be free there.
So, here we are. Wife and I bought a nice 10 person tent this time last year, to take the youngest kid 'camping' - so far been staying at big4-type holiday parks. I hate it much less than expected (staying in holiday parks, that is. I love camping). One of my good mates recently offered me a camper trailer at a price too good to refuse. Hell, twice the asking price would have been hard to refuse. So, we're going to be well equipped for camping!
With the tent, we've stayed at Hastings Point (the camp ground with the water slides), a great place for the kids. A great place for chasing flathead too. And we've 'camped' at Tewantin a couple of times too. Also great, and less than 20 min to Hastings Street. Oh, and Rivershore out the back of Maroochydore.
We're booked into the Big4 at Caloundra in early January.
Very long story short, What recommendations do you have for camping, or 'camping' (ie Holiday park set up) within 2-3 hours of Brisbane that's got some good surf nearby?
I will say one place openly as i will not get **** and it is one of my favourite places to camp.
Not right on the beach ,but so very close, and so very close to so many other epic places for a wave .
Iluka....i will say it again, but i love this place and all the people, small businesses and the bowlo .
Clarence park camp ground is my go to. Clean , good amenities, close ro everything and all the peeps there always seems to be cool
Also a big **** you all and big hugs to the breeze
Edit, hope you healed well naughty dog .after the **** ****ery that happened to you
Oops , stuffed up on my first reply in a bit..my destination is more than two hours. Doesn't have fancy eating joints....but . But but
Hey Damned,
I've heard good things about Noosa River Holiday Park at Noosaville, a bit closer to Noosa beach than Tewantin is. Years ago, a mate was staying in a unit around there and we jumped into the river on our longboards on an outgoing tide and quickly found ourself at the surf beach besides Noosa Woods. (Got the wives to pick us up later and stopped at the pub on the way back. Happy days...)
And Point Lookout at Straddie looks sensational. I have only stayed in houses/units over there, but it's a wonderful spot for surfing and sightseeing (except during peak holiday time or schoolies, then it's awful 
).
And thirty years ago I loved Flatrock Tent Park down between Lennox and Ballina but I think a couple of thousand homes may have been built around it since then. (Lennox at Lake Ainsworth is also good).
Did I mention Brunswick heads? 
P.S. I think from past posts, Mac is your man re boards at Waikiki.
KOA was my place to hire but you have to pre book a good board. I've taken boards over they landed fine but not in the return flight. I reached out to a couple of locals via instagram and met up with them had a great time they showed me the way to order drinks without lining up and loaned me boards, one of them works on the beach for Tony Moniz and let me take out any board I wanted for nicks. I found my Pinnacle to be a great fit but it gets busy so if you're not into party waves and are up for a demolition derby hire a board it's the only way.
We've hired SUP's from Blue Planet a couple of times now and they put the boards in our hire racks next to the Outrigger before we arrived and collected them from there after we'd left. We've also hired longboards from Local Motion in Waikiki (NSP Elements Longboard and Surftech 10'0 Model T) and the prices were great.
I do see a lot of people with Koa rentals too.
The rack hire in the lane is the best thing ever. Takes away so much hassle.
Followed by a post surf fill up at Carissa Moore and her husband's Banan Frozen Fruit Shack. So good !
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I'm actually off to Hastings Point tomorrow, with the newly purchased camper trailer. Although, not taking a surfboard, focus is on fishing.... plus, just got back from a weekend at Noosa (in the Mantra French Quarter, as opposed to camping).
I used to hire boards from Local Motion, before I discovered KOA. KOA is/was great as you could collect and return the boards at any hour - you had a key to the pad locks to the rack. Not sure if this is still the case.
