High rise city on top of the beach

Surffers paradise

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November 21st 2007
We set of quite early and our first port off call was Surfers Paradise, nothing like what I expected. The beach is so built up with high rise hotels and apartment blocks. About 4pm the sun disappears from the beach because of all of the high rise buildings. The sun did not have its hat on for us so I think this is why it did not seem so lovely, so we headed off for some breakie. Great feed $10 all ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more