Blogs from Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 17

'sup everyone I'm back in a more civilized part of the country and actually have some free time for the next couple days. That means I can finally do a real update on my blog. This is obviously cause for global celebration. I'm currently in Surfer's Paradise which is in southern Queensland. Honestly, it's a pretty miserable place. Picture Niagara falls, only with the ocean instead of the waterfall. The city consists of commercialized shopping areas, casinos and tourist traps. It even has the many of the same attractions as Niagara, such as a Ripley's museum and Hard Rock Cafe. The only upside is Simon (my cousin)works here in one of the hostels. I knew he was somewhere in the city when i showed up but i didn't think he'd be so easy to find. When ... read more

Next we set off for Surfers Paradise... it just sounds amazing. My first impression as our bus drove through town late at night was this town is exactly what i picture miami to be like. We ended up staying in a place called Islander Backpackers Resort. we were paying $26 a night and we had our own bathroom, tv,lockers,fridge ad balcony. we over looked the hottub and pool and the beach was a 5 min walk down the road. It was by far one of the best hostels *if you can even call it a hostel it was so nice* Aside from the second night when some punk NZ kid came in at 2am and was making so much noise and then when he realized we were awake he asked us if we wanted to do ... read more

We stayed in Surfer's Paradise for 4 nights. As i mentioned in my last blog, it is a really touristy place with fastfood outlets everywhere and loads of high rise hotels. On our first day me Chris (Martys travel buddy), Jonny and Will went to play crazy golf at King Tuts Put Put (or words to that effect ) We decided to play all three courses that were available, including an Egyptian themed one and a dinosaur themed one. I reckon the many hours of playing Monkey Golf on Holtby's Gamecube (aka the kiddies console) put us in quite good stead. Me and Jonny couldn't be seperated after 54 holes so we came joint 1st (Though technically i should have won due to the fact i got more hole in ones, not quite the bb when ... read more

After our whitsundays trip, we booted it down to Surfers Paradise to meet up with Questy and Sarah at a friends birthday party. The party was in an old colonial style house that has been turned into a club. It was a wicked party with a few different djs playing breakbeat style house accompanied by a live bongo player, who by the end of the night, because of so much bongoing had plasters on every finger, now thats hardcore bongoing!!!! The party was wicked and everyone made us feel very welcome, so big up to all the Kiwi massive !!!! After a few days at Surfers just chillin we got back on the road and spent a few days travelling back to Sydney for our flight to Fiji.... read more

Well we are on the gold coast now. We have been doing a lot. We went “Zorbing”. Basically ripping down a big hill in a huge plastic ball with 40 gallons of water swishing around us. It was amazing, but it was over too fast. We are staying in a sweet apartment with Tenneals mates Kane and Shane. Shane works the bungy in Surfers and he tries to get us to jump everyday. He says crazy things like "You can do it for free! Its so fun! Ive only had one person pee their pants! Ive done it over 100 times!" Im happy for Shane, but I will indeed wet myself, and I want to keep peeing my pants out of the public eye.... Back to the apartment...we have a huge balcony with a patio set ... read more