Tour Code: FIT/3884

Brisbane to Sunshine Coast

3 Nights / 4 Days
Self Drive Tour
Winter Special
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Cities : Noosa Heads (2N),Mooloolaba (1N)

Accommodation

  • 2 Night(s) in Noosa Heads at Verano Resort Noosa or similar
  • 1 Night(s) in Mooloolaba at Novotel Sunshine Coast Resort or similar

Sightseeing

Noosa Heads, Australia
  • Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo
  • One Day Great Beach Drive Tour
Mooloolaba, Australia
  • Sea Life Mooloolaba

Meals

  • 1 Breakfast

Day wise travel itinerary

  • Day 1 :Brisbane to Sunshine Coast

    Welcome to Queensland, Australia! After finishing the customs and immigration formalities at the airport, collect your rental car and drive to Sunshine Coast.  (Travel time: - 2hr 20 mins). 

    • Your first stop will be the famous Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo, Beerwah. In this town, the famous Wildlife Warrior Show in Crocoseum takes place. Here, you will also get to see and meet Wombats, Kangaroos, Tigers, and much more.
    • After the show ends, you will get free time to explore the town of Noosa. One of the popular destinations for shopping in Noosa is the Hasting Street which offers some exquisite items to buy!
    • On the Hasting Street, there are various dinner options available for the people. Overnight at hotel in Noosa.
  • Day 2 :From Noosa to Rainbow Beach

    With fixed tours running daily, passengers will board the vehicle and travel through an iconic scenery of beautiful beaches. With Australia’s coastline in the view, this tour will be simply iconic.

    In the afternoon, stop at Double Island Point Lighthouse for views of the beach. The point also includes Honeymoon Bay, secluded lagoon swims and the famous Rainbow Beach for a picnic lunch.

    Return journey back boasts the natural beauty of Australia with the coastline showcasing marine life such as dolphins, manta rays, turtles, and, soldier crabs. Overnight at hotel.

  • Day 3 :From Noosa to Mooloolaba (40-Minute Drive)

    Arrive at Mooloolaba and spend the morning at Sea Life Mooloolaba. Passengers will be greeted with an 80-metre-long ocean tunnel and they will also be able to play in the rock pools and/or even swim with the seals!

    In the afternoon, drive up further north to Yandina. Known as the “Ginger Town” of the Sunshine Coast, the Eumundi market is the biggest and the best artisan market in Australia. Note: Market Days are only on Saturdays from 7:00 to 14:00 and Wednesdays at 8:00

    An evening at Mooloolaba comes with dining at one of the best outdoor cafes and/or restaurants at the beachfront. Overnight in hotel. 

    • Breakfast
  • Day 4 :Back To Home

    Check out of the hotel and drive to Brisbane for your flight back home or onto another memorable trip across the world.

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Sightseeing

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Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo

Australia Zoo is home of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. Explore the vast zoological park and see over 1,200 animals from native Aussie animals like wombats, dingoes and crocodiles, to exotic creatures like red pandas, Bengal tigers and komodo dragons. Choose from a 1- or 2-day admission ticket and enjoy thrilling educational wildlife shows, supervised feeding demonstrations and amusement rides.


Steve was born into wildlife, growing up on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, helping his parents at the ‘Beerwah Reptile Park’. Established in 1970, this two-acre wildlife park was home to native wildlife such as lace monitors, tiger snakes, freshwater crocodiles, magpie geese and kangaroos. Many of the kangaroos were cared for in homemade pouches by Steve’s mum, Lyn. She was an extraordinary wildlife rehabilitator and was quite skilled in nursing injured and orphaned animals, rehabilitating them before returning them to the wild.


Steve demonstrated an uncanny gift with wildlife from a very young age. He would go on field trips with his family right through the 1970s, helping to relocate problem crocodiles, study snakes in Queensland’s deserts and assisted the university with bird surveys as he was incredibly skilled at climbing trees.


By the 1980s, the wildlife park had expanded to four acres, had two full-time staff and was re-branded as the ‘Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park’. At this stage, Steve was enlisted by the Queensland Government to help with crocodiles, by volunteering for the East-Coast Crocodile Management Program and captured well over 100 crocodiles, which were either relocated or housed within the family’s park.


It was during this same time that the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park became the home of a beautiful Galapagos tortoise, named Harriet. She became an iconic member of the park, much loved by staff and guests. Harriet lived out the last two decades of her life with the Irwin family before she passed away in June 2006.


In 1991, Steve took over the management of the small wildlife park and, not long after, he met

Terri Raines, from Eugene, Oregon, when she visited the park. Steve’s passion for reptiles was matched by Terri’s love for predatory mammals. The two were very much kindred spirits.


Their lives changed dramatically when, on the 4th June 1992, Steve and Terri married, beginning a life of adventure.


Instead of a honeymoon, the couple took the chance to embark on a crocodile rescue mission, filming this experience. This became the first episode of The Crocodile Hunter documentary series.


As the popularity of The Crocodile Hunter grew, Steve and Terri changed the name of their now growing wildlife park to ‘Australia Zoo’. Their mission was to make this zoo the very best in Australia, if not the world! Extensive efforts were made to create habitats, so that all zoo animals could be exhibited in natural environments.


Australia Zoo expanded, as did the Irwin family. Steve and Terri were blessed with the births of two beautiful children; Bindi, in 1998 and Robert, in 2003. Both Bindi and Robert soon developed a deep love of wildlife, just like their parents.


As filming generated extra funds, Steve and Terri had agreed to put all money raised from filming and merchandise back into conservation. From its humble beginnings as an avocado packing shed, they established the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. In 2004, Steve dedicated the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital to his mum, after her tragic passing in 2000. This world-class facility continues to rescue, rehabilitate and release over 7000 native Australian animals every year.


Steve and Terri would go on to film over 300 episodes of The Crocodile Hunter, Croc Diaries, Croc Files, New Breed Vets, Ghosts of War and Bindi: The Jungle Girl. These programs have been enjoyed by over 500 million viewers world-wide.


On 4 September 2006, we heartbreakingly lost Steve in an accident while he was snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. The world mourned with us.


Terri, Bindi and Robert’s efforts today honour the greatest Wildlife Warrior who ever lived. They are ensuring that Steve’s legacy lives on. Australia Zoo now encompasses over 700 acres and employs over 500 staff, continuing Steve’s mission of “Conservation Through Exciting Education”.

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One Day Great Beach Drive Tour

Great Beach Drive 4WD Tours is a division of Surf & Sand Safaris. Established in 1973, this family-owned business is one of Queensland’s longest operating 4WD tour companies. We are the only tour operator offering a dedicated Great Beach Drive tour from Noosa to Rainbow Beach.

Great Beach Drive 4WD Tours are Advanced Eco Certified and are the only tour operators with direct and extended vehicle access to protected Double Island Point Lighthouse. We operate one-day and overnight tours along the beautiful stretch of sandy beaches between iconic Noosa to world-famous Rainbow Beach.

Rainbow Beach is famous for its stunning coloured sands, which were once used by the Gubbi Gubbi people for their artwork and boomerang decoration. It is one of the most beautiful beaches on the planet and is not to be missed.

The Great Beach Drive is one of Australia’s most dramatic coastlines, taking in picturesque beaches, idyllic National Parks, stunning vistas, and two UNESCO Biosphere Reserves side-by-side. If fact, this is the only location in the world where two biospheres are found alongside each other, making this region even more spectacular.

Other highlights of the tours include the secluded and serene Honeymoon Bay, a pristine rainforest, Red Canyon, where the red and yellow sands form this unique pinnacle style canyon in the sand dunes and the breathtaking scene of Carlo Sandblow.

Our one-day and overnight tours travel more than 70km of iconic beaches with our vehicles travelling right on the sand, so you can soak in the scenery and wildlife, such as dolphins, manta rays, turtles, soldier crabs, birdlife, birds of prey and whales (whale season is June-October).

Our modern fleet of air-conditioned 4WD wagons offer a personalised experience, and were you will spend more time out than inside the vehicles with opportunities to explore, swim, relax and experience the stunning locations.

Our local guides enhance the depth of this once in a lifetime experience thanks to their knowledge, and love of the natural beauty of the region. We believe our guides are the best in the business. They are passionate, funny, informative, and easy-going. Their knowledge of every facet of this tour has been developed over hundreds of hours of experience, and guests are free to ask questions and interact with them as they love sharing stories about this special part of Queensland.

Great Beach Drive 4WD Tours are Advanced Eco Certified and we are proud members of Visit Sunshine Coast and Tourism Noosa.
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Hotels

Verano Resort Noosa

Verano Resort Noosa or similar

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