Laura and Laurie on a night out

Surfers Paradise

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February 20th 2006
Hey everyone, We stayed a week in our next stop travelling up the coast, Surfers Paradise. Really nice place, I suppose the name says it all! It's more like a city with a beach than a beachtown! We didn't have great weather while we were there so we did a few activities to keep ourselves occupied instead. We went to Ripley's believe it or not Museum, great fun, there were some really freaky stuff ... read more

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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