Currumbin Sands on the Beach Palm Beach

... to escape any real problems and have had quite a trouble free adventure. When we get together with the Maltby's over an afternoon drink we reminisce about our trip, with very healthy discussion on what places we thought were the best in Australia. We all agree that Esperance (Cape le Grande National Park) had the best beaches, but places like Kalbarri ...

... it was time to move on, and we drove to Byron Bay, a sort of hippie town, filled with little shops, and nomadic camper vans of surfers along the beach coast. Unfortunatley it was raining most of the time we were there, but was a great place to check out, with a totally different vibe of Sydney. Once we left Byron, we headed up to our final destination of the Gold Coast, and though it rained some days we were there, for the ...

Ahhh... here we are on top of the world on the 24th floor of the Royal Palm in Palm Beach along the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Whew, what a view with miles of sandy beach and whitewater waves crashing towards the shore... And Surfers' Paradise seen in the distance. There have been dozens of people surfing and swimming every day, but perhaps the busiest time was Christmas morning. Speaking of mornings, this ...

... to me and was one of my regular haunting grounds i unfortunately dont get there enough these days. Part of Whale beach's problem is accessibility, ironically its also its appeal. you can only get there by car (no ferry services the beach, although RTA buses apparently service the area im still miffed as how a bus navigates the roads... ) and there is little in way of road signage to direct one to the beach. The only sign is along the road to Palm Beach , the turn ...

... sand along the beach, confronted with burning sunlight and very hot temperature in a very sunshine day. People seem to be loved it though, and lied down for hours. It's so strange habit for Asians as if any head-cutting circumstance they will avoid the sunlight. So I tried, lied down on the sand for hours then 2 days after I ...

... handlers they don't harm them (unless they get too rough whilst playing!) and it was really fun to see them swimming, chasing balls just like normal cats. Jilly's favourite was the wombats. We didn't know what they looked like before and they were really cute. Very similar to koala's, who were also very very cute - we even got to stroke one, their fur is so soft! The crocodile show in the afternoon was great fun. They showed clips of Steve Irwin - so funny! and ...

... are here. Also the girl who we went on the Fraser Island trip is staying here and she is a hairdresser so might get her to cut my hair. Was hoping to have a link for our photos but the bloody computer is so slow it has only uploaded 22 of 342 so may have to do it somewhere else or do it in stages, so fingers crossed hopefully by the end of the week I might be able to send you all a link.... Hope you are all well and look forward to hearing all your news from home soon Take care

... in proceeding under the launch track to join the queue waiting for the ride to open in 10 minutes at 10:00am. Queuing to join a queue is a strange concept, but at least it gave us time to observe the no loose items "this includes even 5c coins!" policy by Belinda hiring a special locker next to the queue for our bags. Being outside also gave us an opportunity to enjoy the Superman movie theme being played endlessly on the speakers in the adjacent gardens and also ...

... so she had caught her first fish. We had a good day and lou caught about 5 or so and me 15 or so...so thats good and we munched some for tea... a pod of about 20 dolphins were jumping through the surf right in front of us whilst we fished...tryied to hook one up but they are too big for the BBQ ...nice with chips though... there weather was pretty good until the last day when it pished it down and we got wet,...not much fun campin in the rain english stylee...

... winch, spacious saloon, comfortable beds, headroom, gas stove with oven, hot & cold pressure water, shower, macerator and holding tanks for grey and black water etc I also acquired a yacht design evaluator off the internet. A very valuable tool, simply load the data for a prospective yacht into its data base and it shows the performance characteristics of that vessel. I loaded many and evaluated objective ...