Australia Day Festival activities commenced with the Rotary Big Breakfast at 7am in Noosa, turning over dozens of eggs, kilos of bacon, hash browns, and vegie burgers.
Noosa Rotary partners helped feed 120 people over the next three hours.
The mobile foodies opened for business and provided a mix of takeaways including burgers, snags, pizzas, Mexican, potato swirls, ice creams, fairy floss, and coffee, keeping everyone fed throughout the day.
The music and acts kicked off at 10am with the stage marquee filling to capacity and staying that way all day.
The entertainment showcased a wide range of styles starting with As You Are with their first class mix of wind and percussion including Didge, Thumb Piano and Flute followed by talented singer song writer Sari Abbott.
Joel Fenton, with his world class magic/circus stage act had the audience enthralled. To see Joel juggling fire sticks and a chain saw, and later bouncing around the stage inside a giant balloon was sensational and had kids and parents open-mouthed as they watched in amazement.
Brothers Frank and Louis Martin jammed through a faultless one-and-a-half hours of great singing and guitar work and were warmly received by the crowd.
Rounding out the show, Ollie Murk gave us guitar, didge and soulful singing right up to 4.30pm completing a wonderful day of entertainment.
The front of the marquee was packed all day with some of the children also becoming part of the show up on stage.
With just under 1mm of rain falling during the day, this was just enough to keep festival goers cool without disrupting any entertainment.
The Tewantin Noosa Lions Club thank their sponsors, Noosa Shire Council and the Tewantin Noosa RSL for making this Australia Day Festival such a success. Noosa FM 101.3 was also on hand to support the festival.
Thanks also go to those festival patrons who generously donated towards the Tonga Disaster appeal on the day.
The Noosa Australia Day Festival was welcomed and enjoyed by all who attended.
