Blogs from Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

June 9th is an Australian holiday recognizing the Queen's Birthday - We aren't actually sure of the significance, since her real birthday seems to be in April, but regardless, it means that it's a three day weekend. To take full advantage of the Royal weekend, we decided to take off an additional two days for our first extensive vacation. We flew on Friday morning from Sydney to Coolangatta Airport, which is in Queensland's Gold Coast (Very South Shore of Queensland bordering New South Wales). From Coolangatta we drove north heading towards Surfers Paradise, Broad Beach, and Mainbeach, which are the heart of the Gold Coast. On the way is Burleigh Heads, a beautiful headland where we stopped for a quick hike. We got a good view of the coast looking north and then set back out ... read more

Torn apart for the first time, Flip being bought for three stones and witnessed by the eight, at midnight 12th Jan 2008. Flip and Flop made a pact to reunite some day, and this will be a journal of their separate adventures. Where will they go? What will they do? Will they reunite someday? How will they do it? And will those three stones also have their own adventure? Who is the greater Flip or Flop? These and many other questions may or may not get solved, and may take many years to find out. Great journeys like these are rare and this will be chance to share in Flips and Flops adventures. ... read more

Hello everyone! We’ve been getting swarms of emails from everyone wondering where we are and what we’ve been doing. So, we sat down, had a big sigh and here we are writing this blog for YOU! So enjoy! We left off at Bali, where we had just come back to Kuta from paradising out on the Gili Islands. We spent the last days of Bali touring the quaint art town of Ubud, that comes with an adventure at a monkey sanctuary. Funny story, Bella got molested by a monkey and Kris got peed on. The boys (Kris and Adam) also tried their skills out on the surfs in Dreamland—which is beautiful, while Izabela and Jenna caught some rays on the white sandy beach. We also gave Waterbom (the waterslide park) another go, this time with ... read more

Burleigh Heads and the Gold Coast Australasia » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast » Burleigh Heads By DR Drea AKA TedApril 29th 2007Paul Michael James Drea Got the bus from Byron up to Surfers. Big place with skyscrapers! from a distance i thought it was Brisbane ! Even bigger waves than Byron, great for surfers, pretty hard to swim in. on wave would knock you over then another then another and so on. however met up with the Lizard King and Clara Bell who were ma... read more

Today we went down to the gold coast. We were warned away from surfers paradise as it was the Aussie equivalent of helf-term and it would have been full of spotty screaming teenagers (apparently 60 kids had been arrested there the previous day). Instead we got the train from Roma street down to Robina. This took just over an hour (the trains seem to go slower than the UK which I didn't think was physically possible). From Robina ou can get a 20 minute bus ride to Burleigh heads. This is the next bay down from Surfers Paradise I think but is a bit quieter (in terms of night life) The center of the town has a bowls club for example. It is a really nice place to spend time relaxing though and thats what we ... read more