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Hi Everyone. 

Im looking for a bit of help for a weekend away. Wanting to take a simple camping setup, 4.5m tinny with a 40hp Yamaha and the Navara. Hoping to find somewhere for about 3 days with an easy boat launch and flattish water as the lady is scared of the big bad ocean. Maybe a bit off the beaten track as well. 

Any ideas or help as to where we can go would be much appreciated. Also don't want to go more than about 2 or 3 hours from Brisbane. 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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1 minute ago, demarc said:

6 hours to Middle Creek at 1770. Worth the extra drive! Great camping and way off the beaten track.

Absolutely love it up there, but have a trip planned for there in August already, ( boys week away ). Hit me with some closer places for this one.

and if anyone says "Johns Landing" we can't be friends anymore lol.

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You could try Poona. Just north of Inskip and on the Great Sandy Strait.

A town of maybe 100 people right on the water. The campgrounds/caravan park is right on the boat ramp. Nice flat water right in front.

Kinda off the beaten track since not a lot of people go there. There's 1 cafe/shop in the suburb (I'd struggle to call it a town) and that's pretty much it.

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Coochin Creek campground is ok, close by, without the Deliverance music re Johns Landing :lol: can access Pumicestone Passage, boat ramp approx. 1km from campground. can launch canoes, kayaks from in the campground

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On 26 May 2017 at 2:03 PM, aussie123 said:

Definitely have a look at Harrys Hut on the Noosa Everglades.

I have not been in there by car but I have fished all through there in a boat and it really is an amazing place.

I'd love to spend a few days camping up there myself sometime.

I've been in there with the landcruiser a few years back. Good spot .

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22 hours ago, Gad said:

Coochin Creek campground is ok, close by, without the Deliverance music re Johns Landing :lol: can access Pumicestone Passage, boat ramp approx. 1km from campground. can launch canoes, kayaks from in the campground

Mate, that Johns Landing.... I thought I was gonna wake up minus some body parts lol.

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Johns landing is where they 'dump' Noosa's homeless so they don't mess up their beautiful streets.  Council give them a tent and drop them out there.

https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/homeless-camping-out/1177575/

Poona is nice but you can only use the boat ramp a couple hrs either side of high tide.  Heaps of small town in Sandy Straits.  Have a look at Maaroom.  Has a ramp, pontoon and enough water at low tide.  

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11 hours ago, Doyley said:

Johns landing is where they 'dump' Noosa's homeless so they don't mess up their beautiful streets.  Council give them a tent and drop them out there.

https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/homeless-camping-out/1177575/

Poona is nice but you can only use the boat ramp a couple hrs either side of high tide.  Heaps of small town in Sandy Straits.  Have a look at Maaroom.  Has a ramp, pontoon and enough water at low tide.  

I could not believe once we set up camp there and went to the shop at the gate, there was a sign saying 'Centrelink payments now available'. 

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On 26/05/2017 at 8:26 PM, Binder said:

Thanks for the tip Henry, looks pretty good!

My brother and I went for a 1 day trip up that way to have a look at buying some land for the future. Stopped in at Poona to have a look at cheap land near water. Not bad if you have a spare $74k to spend. 800sqm of land, 1 block from the water.

But then we found that rates for said block of land with no town sewage and with power and water NOT connected would run about $1600/$1800 per annum. Better off just renting a house there for a week at a time for $600 instead.

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