08/08/2025
After years of dreaming, planning and delays Hubby and I finally managed to paddlecamp the Upper Noosa River.
We launched from and left the car and trailer at a booked campsite at Harry’s Hut Campground.
We paddled or more to point sailed upriver to campsite 5 for our first night, night 2 was meant to be at the uppermost campsite 15 but there was no safe access from the boards or to get our gear up to the campsite, by this time it was getting late in the day, so we headed back to the nearest campsite and hoped that no one else was booked there.
We ended up spending 2 nights at this campsite and spent a relaxing day just exploring the side creeks, sun baking and just generally chilling out.
Had a bit of a scare when we could smell smoke and then could see a smoke haze and had ash falling in the river around us. Thanks to the Garmin InReach + we were able to find out it was due to a controlled burn off further south and there was nothing to worry about.
We decided to cut our trip short by one day due to poor weather coming in and had a big paddle day back to Harry’s Hut Campground from the top end of the river with most of it into a head wind.
But was a really great trip and I highly recommend it.
Campsites 1, 2 & 3 have toilets ( composting ) and manmade landing points.
From camp 4 -15 it is natural landing points and no toilets ( must dig a hole 45cm deep, at least 50m from water and don’t bury toilet paper, bag it and carry it back out with you )
No fires allowed anywhere, carry all your own water.