Eden Tower Coolangatta
5 Ward Street Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Queensland, 4225, Australia
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Surfing Competition at Coolangatta
... 1 week. After checking into my hostel I headed straight for the competition. The beaches were lovely and had view of the surfers paradise skyscrapers
further round the coast, very unusually view on the horizon.
I watched stage 3 of the competition, consisting of 12 heats, in which 2 ...
Day 26: Meditation and a birthday
... in the movies with wires! Then it finished. And so I thought had my night. I headed for the hostel only to hear some music pumping for a hotel on the corner, I sneaked in and got a beer. I started talking to Andreas, a Norwegian who was on his way to surprise his sister and her kids in Melbourne for Christmas. In an hour after meeting him it was also his birthday. We chatted about some very funny things. How we had commodore computers when we were ...
Uluru, Australia to Coolangatta, Australia
... Columbia are very flat. You need to fill them to the bottom of the short filler neck with no space left in the top of the tank. Most fuelers leave a space which usually means the tank is 2 to 4 gallons short of being full. For these long haul ocean flights, you've got to load all the fuel you can. This time I filled all tanks, including the ferry tank, to maximum. While the next leg is only a little over 1000 nm, when out over the ...
Cool beach, cool waves, cool weather, Coolangatta
We then headed to Coolangatta to Kirra Beach, (another famous surf spot apparently) and checked in for three nights. Thankfully on our third day, the sun finally shone so we extended our stay for a couple more nights.
My surf spot secrets magazine from 1992 proved to be slightly out of date, as they'd put in a pier that had messed up the banks a few years ago. We did find ...
Gold Coast!
... flash new electronic passport but because of the training we couldn’t use the fast track ePassport lanes and had to join the massive queues, dumb!
Our plane was one of those fancy new Air New Zealand ones which actually have half as much leg/seat room as the older ones. But there were good movies and they even gave us breakfast!.
When we arrived in Gold Coast it was already scorching hot and not even 9am yet. We got the bus to ...

