Surfers Paradise - 15.01.2013 to 17.01.2013

Surfers Paradise, what can you say? A place many a person has been to sometime in their lives. The Gold Coast has always been a keen holiday destination for us southerners, with its warmer climate, heaps of beaches and entertainment to offer. A great family destination with all the theme parks at your back door, but too over commercialised for us. We did make an effort to explore right down the coast all the way to Coolangatta, or more like on the border of Qld and NSW. It was like we didn't quite want to cross that state line as it meant our time on the road was getting closer to our home state of Vic.

The beaches are quite good here, with the water still warm to just amble in with no Oooohing and Arghing as your nether regions reach the wet. We even managed to get the boogey boards out again and catch a few waves. Good weather, lots of shops, people and traffic but overall not a bad place to go, though the caravan parks on the beach were charging heaps for a site so we stayed in Southport, just north of Surfers.