Surfer's Pah! -aradise

Steve 'Crikey' Irwin's Australia Zoo

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April 16th 2008
We left Byron Bay, feeling at one with the surf and mother earth, only to be smacked in the face by the high-rise sight for sore eyes that is the Gold Coast. Who on earth let that happen? Surfer's Paradise it might once have been, but surely no self-respecting surfer REALLY thinks thinks that paradise is set in concrete 50 floors high? Surfer's.. cough.. Paradise must float some people's bo ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Beerwah

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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