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Surfers Paradise Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Surfers Paradise, Australia
The Holiday Of Many Fails
... . It was nice for that to be a possibility, but as we watched the sun begin to set over the inappropriately named Surfers Paradise in the distance, illuminating the surfers around the headland making it seem like they are surfing waves of liquid gold, ...
The Golden Coast.....
... the massive entry costs... it persuaded us not to go to Movie-world the next day! The next day we spent exploring Surfers Paradise, driving through the streets lined with posh apartments and high end fashion stores... not really our scene, but fun to ...
Surfer's Paradise
Just stopped here for a few hours on the way though on the coach to have a look. It has a reputation as the 'Blackpool' of the East coast. As you can see by the photos it's v high-rise and v touristy. Nice beach though, but incredibly busy....glad I'm ...
Underwater Adventure pt 2
... pretty nice. Jess is semi consious now so we go for a walk and check out the close by area. You would picture Surfer's Paradise as a little surf town. But it is a very commercial city with skyscrapers that developed from a little surf town. There are ...
Oh come the fuck on Bridget...
... up when the van was fixed. always ready to learn things about cars...hmm...8-) i must say, people were LYING if they said surfers paradise is a good night out...i had one good night out here out of many attempts, and have come to the conclusion that its ...
Sun Holliday
... and he was telling me he did a 100k cycle from Limerick to Doonbeg back home for charity. When did you get fit flynn??? Surfers is way different to Byron, its more like a sun holiday resort, really built up with high rise apartments etc and like ...
Surfer's Paradise
We didn't spend much time here, only a few hours. Surfers is very similar to Florida or Miami. Very cheesy, neon lights, bars, bars, lots of action. The major theme parks are just outside of Surfers. On our way to Brisbane we stopped off to go ...
An abortive attempt at bodyboarding
Today was another ridiculously wet day; we haven't seen much evidence as to why its called Surfers PARADISE. It is a very interesting place though, with all the high rise buildings right on the coast. We slept in, had brunch at the hostel then Emma and ...
Certainly not - 'Surfers Paradise'
... Paradise on Tuesday and got the shuttle bus to our hostel which is actually in a place called Southport just outside of Surfers Paradise. We were a bit disapointed when we realised this however the accomodation was free with our bus pass so it wasn't too ...
Catching the surf...or a tan!
... as we had a fairly early start to pack our bags for the bus to Byron Bay. I do feel I am being a little unfair to Surfers Paradise though, the area is really nice - in particular the fact that there is river water all around, separating the area into ...
Surfers Paradise Day 2
... it's pretty much been raining all the way along the coast, it is getting increasingly warmer (it's been about mid-20's here in Surfers) - So I need to update my wardrobe (or should I say backpack) with some summer gear. I didn't really find much so I ...
Time to Treat Ourselves...!
... the van and continued on out of this town stopping in Murwillumbah for lunch. We were back on the road again heading towards Surfers Paradise. Crossing over the state border into Queensland we went back an hour in time. We somehow miraculously ...
Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise was cool, just lots of beaches with excellent waves to surf on, although still haven't managed to learn yet, am planning to do so soon! The beaches are amazing, it is so nice to go to the beach and not be surrounded by people! We walked ...
work hard, relax harder!
A day at the beach - Surfer's Paradise, yeah baby!! But as it was winter in Australia, the beaches were not crowded at all, much to my surprise - a pleasant surprise. The beach was mine! And I can do what I enjoy doing most, especially when i'm ...
Surfers Paradise. Saturday August 23, 2008
... in even if I wasn't able to stand up (and really what's the difference anyway aside from looking cooler). So I surfed in Surfers Paradise. After our lessons ended some people went back to the beach to relax, but I was beached out at that point and ...
Surfer's Paradise - 15th March ~ 18th March
I have been SO excited for surfers paradise ln the gold coast since I got to Aus. We were stayin with Zara and Jilly's friend from home who lives in Surfer's so DJ picked us up when we arrived after a quick 2 hour bus journey. Obviously we all slept on ...
Surfers Paradise
22nd December Met Adam at the airport and then got a taxi north to Surfers Paradise, headed out on the town although I got brawly drunk and went home early with the only key and flaked out, the other boys couldn't waken me up so they had to call out the ...
East Coast here we come!
... to Port MacQuarie Coffs Harbour Byron Bay Nimbin - What on earth is that place all about !!!???!!!! Surfers Paradise. The highlight of this part of the tour was Byron Bay. A real surfers and hippie town. No end ...
Surfers paradise, le retour
... Bay, but still no surfers!! where are they?? ok it's cold now but is not a good reason!! VERSION FRANCAISE Petite escale a surfers avant de descendre a Byron Bay... Rien fait de special et en plus pas de surfers sur les plages!! Ok il fait froid ...
Brisbane Day #7
... 4 emergency rescues where people had been swept out in the current. 3 of the people rescued happened to be swimming right in front of Dustin/Tyler/Julie!?!?!? We have only 1 picture of Surfers Paradise as someone forgot to bring the ...
Gold Coast & Urunga
... tasty. Bryan showed us the sights of Coomera Waters (a very posh area) the next day and on the last day we went to Surfers Paradise & up the Q1 Tower. The views of the Gold Coast were fantastic. That night they took us to a really posh restaurant called ...
Surfers Paradise, Queensland
... hour group lesson. G got a CD of photos of us, its the hardest thing ever. Were driven up to Southport beach, 5km north of Surfers, as the waves were bigger there. I think we deserved the certificates we got at the end. Ended up a bit battered and ...
Electrical storms at Surfers Paradise.
... of all three! I think Conor was playing lets drive past the rain and we headed up further north towards Surfers Paradise. After the knee deep water in Byron, the really heavy rain in Tweed we were'nt expecting better weather here ...
Surfer's Paradise???
... were maybe more arsey. We stayed in a decent hostel however there wasn't much crack going on. The best thing about Surfer's Paradise was seeing Steve and Christine who we travelled around parts of Vietnam and Laos with. It was great seeing them and felt ...
A night in Surfers Paradise
... ) match on Sunday (there will for sure be an entry about those). What a weekend! On our Thursday night out in Surfers Paradise we went out on a bar crawl with some other kids from the hostel and ended up at a night club called "the bedroom" ...
Did you honestly think Id survive in a camper van?
... Diary - 4th-12th January 2011 :( RIP Due to the necessity of Jon to do some work I reluctantly checked us into the Crown Plaza at Surfers Paradise for the week (those of you that bet I wouldn't last in the van - your winnings just came in - tee ...
St. Patty and way more....
Checking in from Surfer's Paradise, Got super-fortunate once again and have been able to stay in a friend of a friend's place (luxury-condo) for our time here. Two good friends from toronto were already staying here - so it's been fun to see them. ...