Visitors plan to unpack lots of fun

The line of teenagers out the door of the Headland Tropicana Resort yesterday said it all – Schoolies are here.

Some, like Lucy Stevenson and her friends, wasted no time heading straight to Mooloolaba to check it out.

“We’re going to go shopping, swimming at the beach, having fun, barbecues, nights out, a bit of partying and dancing,” she said of the week ahead.

About 25 teenagers from her school, Holland Park High, had decided to spend Schoolies Week in Alexandra Headland instead of going to the Gold Coast.

“We’ll have as much fun but it’s not as crazy and crowded and dangerous,” she said.

“My sister went to Schoolies on the Gold Coast and one of her friends got a syringe in her foot at a beach party – we’d rather not risk that type of thing.

“We just wanted to come and hang out. We didn’t want anything bad to happen.”

It was a similar story for Hannah Liebke, whose parents drove her across from Toowoomba.

“We didn’t think anything was on to do with Schoolies here,” she said.

“We just want to relax, go to the beach, have swims and go shopping.”