Enthusiastically shouted greetings, hugs and smiles dominated the scene on Noosa’s Main Beach on New Year’s Eve as several hundred teenagers and youths milled around to celebrate the new year.
This year the atmosphere was a little chaotic but much quieter than the past few years where the occasion had been marred by drunken and aggressive behaviour.
Police and ambulance services set up a temporary emergency services unit in the People’s Park beside Noosa Surf Club and police were out in force patrolling the area.
A spokesman for Queensland Ambulance Service said officers received several presentations to the medical tent in Noosa on New Years Eve, primarily alcohol related complaints, with only two patients requiring transport to local hospitals.
Noosa Police said during the evening one police car was damaged when a youth jumped on the vehicle, smashing the windscreen and in another incident a youth stole a taser before being quickly apprehended by officers.
Juveniles were causing the problems but it was not as busy as last year, police said.
