View from Beach

Trip to the Gold Coast

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November 28th 2006
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 wa ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast » Burleigh Heads

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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