It was standing room only on Noosa Main Beach Easter Sunday when the sun came out to give residents and tourists some much anticipated beach time after recent rains.
The traffic queued to enter the popular tourist spot, filling the available car parking including the Lions Park which was reopened over Easter at a fee of $20 a day. The free shuttle buses were also popular with people waiting at stops along the routes.
Noosa police acting senior sergeant John Delandelles said the tourist spot was relatively quiet across the weekend and accident free.
However on Saturday night a group of 40-50 teenagers aged 14 -16 years from Coolum were discovered by police consuming liquor at the Lions Park near Hastings Street and moved on, he said.
Noosa North Shore campers led to outrage on social media when 4WD vehicles took to the dunes, potentially damaging the dunes and destroying turtle nests, when high tides mixed with a washout made the beach road impassable.
Noosa MP Sandy Bolton said all stakeholders needed to come up with a solution to prevent the situation happening again.
“We have to look at multiple aspects of this,” she said. “Are there too many people going up? Should there be road closures?
“What do we need to do to safeguard our environment and ensure the safety of people going on that stretch?”
