Pacific Views Resort Gold Coast Main Beach

... the Simpson Desert to Birdsville. From there return to Sydney via central NSW, or any other route that may get my interest.

Departure Day (-) 1: Spent the day packing my motorcycle so that it was ready to go early morning. Got distracted, which is normal, and went to visit a few mates from my youth who I used to ...

... Conveniently the office was right next door to the Cathedral of St. Stephen, which was beautiful! We couldn't go inside because there was a funeral going on, but a volunteer guide gave us a quick overview of the church and showed us some of the stained glass windows before we went on our way. After that we saw a huge tree with crazy vines hanging off it in the middle of the downtown, Anzac Square (a big plaza area between government buildings with memorials in it ...

... everything about the rainforest- every animal, every plant, every bird call. He was amazing. We rode in a ute through the rainforest, crashed through a 4WD trail and had a fantastic meal that Ed made for us by a river stream. It was an exhasuting day! That night, we went out for a cocktail at an ice bar- that's right, an ice bar, where everything was made out of ice. The cups, the chairs, the walls- it was crazy! You get a giant furry jacket before you go in, plus mittens and ...

... pool to put our towels on. Dad then headed over to the newer rides with the kids before they started to fill up while mum and I headed to get a locker to put our phones and wallets in. Getting the locker ended up being harder than we thought. We thought you had to find an open locker, put your stuff in and then set the code - turns out you had to do it the other way. Eventually we were able to find some help so move our stuff into the right locker. Once we ...

... to swim' areas. In fact, it would have been more appropriate to use a couple of 'scull and crossbones' flags, to mark the five meter swell as 'dangerous' or suicidal to surf upon. Not too much was happening in the rain swept 'Surfers Paradise', with most of the tourists (and surfers) hiding from the rain in the shopping malls. We did receive a chance email from our friends Meg and Brian, who live on and sail the world in their 48 foot ...

... to decide which theme parks we wanted to visit as we wanted a combined pass to two parks and the parks are run by different companies. In the end we decided on Warner Bros Movie World and Wet 'n' Wild waterpark and paid before exploring the rest of Surfer's. We waited until the morning to decide which park to visit first, deciding on Movie World as the sky was quite overcast. At Movie World there were six main rides and ...

... other hand catches a cracker which takes her all the way into the beach. In the 2 or 3 times I do fall off, I manage to scratch my arm and leg up pretty badly but I don't care and just want to get back on the board again. After 2 hours the lesson is over and I could have easily stayed out for another 2 hours, even though my arms are nearly falling off from the paddling. After the lesson, we head back to the campsite for lunch both of us feeling a little ...

... ans se dirigeaient en courant et hurlant vers la cabine des sauveteurs, ils etaient couvert de brulure de meduses....eh oui ici aussi ce n est pas la saison des bains ou combinaison anti meduse obligatoire... Nous sommes maintenant de retour a Brisbane et allons visiter la ville avant de nous envoler pour "Ayers Rock" puis Perth. On croise les doights en esperant pouvoir se baigner sur la cote Ouest.

... from the kitchen to the computer to check the score of the game. The Aussie team were due to have their post match meal when they got back to the hotel, which the kiwi chef was left in charge with. When I left work there were loads of the locals looking a bit worse for wear after drowning their sorrows. I got back about 12.30am, everyone in the hostel was steaming as the majority of them had been on a booze cruise up the Brisbane river, which ...

... is a popular bar for backpackers and i guess a good place to go on tuesdays, but unfortunately we couldn't get in because he was wearing sandals. this place is not classy by any means so it shocked me that he needed to be wearing normal shoes. anyways we went to a bar down the street called paddy mcguire's and were the only ones in the bar but it was still a good time. wednesday was uneventful as i worked on my final paper for the internship but thursday was a bit eventful. i ...