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Coolangatta Slideshow
Coolangatta
Travel Blogs from Coolangatta, Australia
Quiksilver Pro Surf Competition
How could I come to Australia without witnessing a surfing competition? I had no idea I would be watching one of the biggest surf competitions in the world though, as well as Kelly Slater's final surf competition of his career!!! The Quiksilver Pro Surf ...
funny old place
... at the southern end of the gold coast. it is an odd place - mainly because the town is bascially an amalgamation of coolangatta in queensland & tweed heads which is in new south wales. now new south wales operate daylight savings time in the summer ...
Cultuurshock!
... naam juist moet invullen. Ik denk dat ik die vaardigheid al wel ff machtig ben, maar ging er niet over dicussiëren. Australi''rs en ochtendhumeur: no good. Gelukkig was mijn hostel maar een paar minuten van de luchthaven, dus heb maar een paar uurtjes ...
Snapper Rocks and the surfers...
... have been some lovely examples :-) Went for lunch at the Northcliffe surf club which is (apparantly) the best surf club in Australia... I tried to steal all the pictures off the wall but they were too well attached. We went swimming and body surfing ...
(Tarnished) Gold Coast Misery
... and it's a shame that some of Australia's nicest beaches are located here. We decided to give Surfers Paradise a miss and stay in smaller Coolangatta just down the coast. It hurts me to say, but at the tender age of 26 I'm just too old for drinking all ...
Random little town
One last stop on gold coast before Brisbane. I pretty much just picked one at random and decided on somewhere called Coolangatta. Not a whole lot going on, just a surf town but only here for one night so by the time i eventually got ...
Coolangatta and Byron - Surfing and sharks
... be able to watch from surfing for a couple of days, and we are so glad hat we did! The hostel was excellent, and Coolangatta was absolutely lovely. Chilled out with the most amazing stretch of beach. You could see the skyline of Brisbane in the distance ...
Beautiful day in Coolangatta
... and it is closer to the Gold Coast airport which we would be flying early next morning. The intercity train from Brisbane to Coolangatta was delayed by 10 minutes, which was no big deal except the connecting bus to Tweed Head from the train station ...
Coolangatta
... and idling the afternoon away without worries about burning or heat stroke. Lovely. We had actually decided to stay in Coolangatta because the Quicksilver World Surfing Championship was on from mid-Feb till Mar 7. Thought this would be interesting to ...
Coast to coast
Alas the time has come to take the Spyder back to its home on the Gold Coast. An early start pprovided cold temperatures and about an hour of fog ryding form Woodford ti past Lake Wivenhoe. By the time I had reached Beadesert at 900 it was 32 degrees C ...
Leaving Australia
Well, we are on our way. Currently we are waiting in the departure lounge. Ross is filling out our paperwork while Liz is checking out the Duty Free shops. It is very quiet here and there were no check-in queues, straight through... We got here nice n ...
Cooly Rocks!
... and the girls head to Coolangatta where we met up with the lovely Jessica and also were reunited with Lee and Becky. Coolangatta was awesome; with a stunning never-ending sandy beaches and big waves for surfing and playing. The town had everything; small ...
DAY 1 - airport f
Arrived at the airport - had to walk off the plane, onto the tarmack and into the terminal. Got our bags at 6:50am local times. So about 1 hour, 20 minutes flight. i bought a toasted chese, ham and tomato sandwich. Had to wait until 8:20am for a shuttle ...
Touched down...safely
Arrived at Coolangatta Airport about 0750. Greeted by breezy and cool wind of Australia. On the plane we met and be friends with a Malaysian couple and their daughter. Co-incidently we had the same departure and arrival date for this trip with them. Nice ...
Arrived in Australia
Arrived in Coolangatta, Queensland. Spent two nights at the Ultima Apartments in Tweed Heads, ...
Surfers Paradise
... des Tages...naja nicht wirklcih abschluss, aber es wird hier ja um 17.30 dunkel. Dann hab ich mich wieder auf den Weg nach Coolangatta gemacht, weil es hier einfach sehr nett ist und ich nen Platz habe wo ich ohne von den Cops belästigt zu werden ...
Finally a Post- Retroactive posts to slowly appear
... experiences! Next I was in Nepal for two days. Since November 5th I have been in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. All of last week I was participating in the 1st International Conference on Energy and Meteorology and was busy learning many ...
time to nippon over...
What an amazing time we live in....to be able to travel to another continent ,another country and sample it's history , culture, foods and photo opportunities in the time one when spend at their day job!! Thanks Jetstar for the economcal cost of ...
A Mixed Bag
... of the Gold Coast. This stretch of coast has some expensive homes, boats, cars etc and is known as Australia's favourite playground!! We headed for Coolangatta which is a town set in both states of New South Wales and Queensland and in the summer there ...
Coolangatta - Jo's place
Arrived at Brisbane airport just before midnight on Saturday, got through customs after only a little bit - thank goodness for Pauly's Australian passport. They were really really hot on anything that could cause new species / disease introduction and ...
Coolangatta and Deep Sea fishing
We spent the next couple of days hanging out around Kirra ( a world class surf spot). Unfortunately the weather has taken a turn for the worst and it's just rainy and overcast. Campervanning turns out to be less fun when you're forced ...
Street cruising
After a full morning in the Currumbin Valley and Tullebudgera Valley on my own, I retuend for a luch of fish by the sea at Tugun with Alison. We met a lady who really wanted to go on the Spyder, but she had her three-year old in ...
Our first experience with Air Asia X
... in Coolangatta where we've left our car (we live in Brisbane) and grabbed a taxi for the 8:55 AM flight to Malaysia. Coolangatta "international" terminal is tiny and has very few facilities, so we find ourselves queing at a metal roller door at 7.30 AM ...
Sydney and Beyond
... we decided to head north and see what the rest of Australia had to offer. We booked our flight out of Sydney to Coolangatta, a suburb of the Gold Coast. From there we plan on taking a shuttle up to Brisbane and collecting our rental ...
Back to reality
It feels so strange to be out doing normal things again after the cloistered life of the retreat. Trying hard to hang onto the peace that I felt during the last 9 days. Spent several hours sitting staring at the water ...
Nothing cool about Coolangatta
... park area of the country. We skipped the more famous Surfers Paradise as everyone told us it was horrible. But when we left Coolangatta we weren't sure if we fared any better. To be fair the town itself was fine, nice standard town with ...