Gold Coast skyline from Kirra Beach

Day 161 - south to Kirra

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September 4th 2015
We had another shower in the "best ablutions in all of Australia" and headed off to Kirra (which is close to the Qld / NSW border). It is also next to the Gold Coast airport and close to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. The southern end of the Gold Coast always looks nice with the Norfolk Island pine trees and it has just a few sections where the high rise apartments dominate the skyline. We se ... 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