The Concrete City

Surfers Paradise, here we come!!

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October 18th 2007
Fri 12th Oct: We stopped at Danger Point on the way to Surfers Paradise, catching some amazing views across the bay to the concrete city itself. Surfers was only about an hours drive, which was nice after the longer drives we'd been doing. Weather back on track, we strolled around the town, topping up on milkshake. We decided this would be a good place to have a night out so stopped at an inte ... 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