Welcome to Surfer's Paradise

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Woooowooo...
We made it, we have begun our week of exploration and partyation. Haha. It took us a bus ride from monovale to manly, a ferry from manly to the city and a train from the harbour to the ariport...oh, and let's not forget the flight from sydney to the gold coast; but we are finally here!
We checked into our YHA Hostel last night and decided to immediately review the night scene we have heard oh-so-much about. I must say, it is definitely schoolies. The streets are cluttered with thousands of 18-25 year olds and the clubs are blasting the tunes all night long. Getting lost is half the fun and pretty much the only way to find where you're going. The night was very wild and we were praying for sleep by the time it was done. Adrian shotgunned the top bunk so chris and I were happily stuck with sharing the bottom bunk. We slept moderately but woke with bright eyes to our day of discovery.
First, Chris and I spent half the morning booking our flights up the Whitsunday coast for next week. Word of advice to future young travelers: everyone bring a credit card, without it, it's impossible to book flights and hostels online. We had to reach deep into our pockets for extra help on the booking, (thanks mom & dad).
Anyway, after the long and quite irritating time we spent trying to figure out how to use a calling card, we took off into surfer's to remap the city we so blodly wandered the night before. We walked for a good while until we met up with some schoolie friends of Adrian's. We took a dip in their hotel pool and sun baked till we felt good and tanned. Afterwards we decided to look into some of the exciting things to do in Surfer's and were so close to buying a session at a shooting range, though we decided it just wasn't worth the money....45mm magnums are sick! haha.
With only an hour and a half to spare till the shuttle bus came to pick us up, we decided to hit the famous beach. The white sand felt like small cushions on the soles of our feet as we walked towards the water. The surf is huge and Adrian and I had a great time body surfing them while Chris explored his inner photographer. The day was fun and we have a big night ahead of us. It's good to be eighteen in Australia...don't worry mom, dad, we'll be fine.
Love from Queensland.
Evan & Chris.

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Photos

Evan and Adrian Looking out from Adrian's Friend's hotel
Sweet Rides in the background

Chris and Adrian at the Kebab Shop
Kebabs are australian shwarmas

Hard Rock Cafe
Surfer's Paradise

Surfer's Paradise Beach
Beautiful

Adrian
chillin out on the biggest beach weve ever seen

Us and the gun man
trying to get him to lower the prices to let us shoot an elephant gun.

chris on the bus
the shuttle bus was so packed, we had to sit on the floor.

Evan and Adge on the bus
same story

our paradise hostel
on the water.

the hostel
balcony. at night, its crowded with packers drinking and chillin out.

Comments

[AKA Dad]

Bored yet?
Sounds beautiful. You'll need three weeks at home to rest up! How's your Tan? Homesick yet? Love this blog. Great pictures. Many hockey guys checking in. Everyone is saving to go down under.