Surfers Paradise

13-1-2010 (Saturday)

Our 2nd day at the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is just Queensland, we came from New South Wales. Today we found out that NSW has one hour time difference with the rest of Australia. Ruben was searching for coffee at 6 this morning instead of 7. With hindsight, what a number of surfers already in the water that early!

But it meant that the whole family was rise and shine very early, after breakfast we went to the beach. A real hot day today. They take the lifeguard thing very serious everywhere, but especially here. The sea has very strong currents and today the red flag is out, meaning be careful. You always have to swim between the flags.
We rented a real body board today, it was really great fun.

Around noon we went back to the van, the kids slept for a couple of hours in the air-conditioning, Sharon watched a movie and Ruben did some payments through the internet.
After the kids woke up they played with their new friends from the caravan park for a while and then we walked along the coast to Surfers Paradise, a 40 minute walk.
Surfers is a really tacky place, shops, shops, shops and restaurants, good to have been there but not to come back. Main Beach is better for us.

We had dinner at a Thai restaurant, ice cream at Baskin Robin’s and walked back to the campsite.

Tomorrow Sea World.