We arrived on Monday in the most southern point of Queensland that we will be visiting. Strange to thing that the whole time we've been in Australia so far, all those miles that we've travelled, we've been in the same state the whole time! We've both agreed that Surfers is one of the best places we've been so far. It is really touristy and on occasions pretty tacky but the combination of the amazing beach and the great weather more than make up for any bad points!
On Tuesday we headed for the beach in the morning, hired a bodyboard on the way and settled in for the day. The weather was perfect for a lazy day on the beach,
beautiful blue skies and not a cloud above us. We lotioned up 3 times in the 5 hours we were there and still burnt. This was pretty annoying considering the lotion is meant to last 6 hours for one application, rubbish!! (It seems that it lasts for 6 hours of English sun, not the proper stuff down here!). The waves here are brilliant and nothing like anything I've been in before, they are SO powerful. The water isn't even deep, I was never really out further than just above waist height but the waves came way above everyones heads and were definitely a good few metres high. Even when they came further into the shore they were still really powerful (enough to knock Megan over anyway!) and you could really feel the rip too. A certain highlight of the day was when I was casually swimming along the seabed (as you do) and my hand happened upon something hard so i grabbed it (as you do). Turns out that it was a nice pair of Oakley half jackets!! I had a quick look around and there didn't seem to be anyone looking around desperately for some sunnies so not a bad mornings work for me!!
For the last two days we have been at the theme-parks. These are pretty much the biggest and most popular in Australia and there are 4 or 5 pretty close to each other. We bought a pass allowing us entry to "Dreamworld" and "Whitewater World" over 2 days and transfer between them as much as we wanted. Yesterday we went to "Dreamworld" which was good fun with lots of thrill rides. The day definitely got off to a good start when we didn't have to queue for the first roller coaster and even got in the front two seats! Bonus! It was a really fun day but also really hot which meant that by 2pm we were starting to feel it so called it a day and caught the bus home. Today we had planned to go to "Whitewater World", a water park, and it was lucky we did because it was raining. Since we were going to get wet anyway (and the fact that we're British)
we stuck to our plan and went nice and early. Due to the weather the park was pretty much empty so we found 2 dry sunbeds undercover and got on with the fun. There were quite a few rides there and Megan actually enjoyed all of them, which was great! I think the best thing of the day was the "Flowrider" which is a standing wave similar to the one I tried in Wild Wadi, Dubai. The system here was better, instead of queuing for ages for just one go, we bought a $5 ticket and got a 30 minute session on the wave. We both absolutely loved it and got the hang of it pretty quick, getting some great photos (and wipe outs for me) in the process. We lasted a lot longer today and got back at about 5pm.
We're still here for another day and are having $5 all you can eat pizza tonight, chilling out at the beach tomorrow and leaving for Byron Bay (bloody expensive hostels!!) on Saturday.
On Tuesday we headed for the beach in the morning, hired a bodyboard on the way and settled in for the day. The weather was perfect for a lazy day on the beach,
beautiful blue skies and not a cloud above us. We lotioned up 3 times in the 5 hours we were there and still burnt. This was pretty annoying considering the lotion is meant to last 6 hours for one application, rubbish!! (It seems that it lasts for 6 hours of English sun, not the proper stuff down here!). The waves here are brilliant and nothing like anything I've been in before, they are SO powerful. The water isn't even deep, I was never really out further than just above waist height but the waves came way above everyones heads and were definitely a good few metres high. Even when they came further into the shore they were still really powerful (enough to knock Megan over anyway!) and you could really feel the rip too. A certain highlight of the day was when I was casually swimming along the seabed (as you do) and my hand happened upon something hard so i grabbed it (as you do). Turns out that it was a nice pair of Oakley half jackets!! I had a quick look around and there didn't seem to be anyone looking around desperately for some sunnies so not a bad mornings work for me!!For the last two days we have been at the theme-parks. These are pretty much the biggest and most popular in Australia and there are 4 or 5 pretty close to each other. We bought a pass allowing us entry to "Dreamworld" and "Whitewater World" over 2 days and transfer between them as much as we wanted. Yesterday we went to "Dreamworld" which was good fun with lots of thrill rides. The day definitely got off to a good start when we didn't have to queue for the first roller coaster and even got in the front two seats! Bonus! It was a really fun day but also really hot which meant that by 2pm we were starting to feel it so called it a day and caught the bus home. Today we had planned to go to "Whitewater World", a water park, and it was lucky we did because it was raining. Since we were going to get wet anyway (and the fact that we're British)
we stuck to our plan and went nice and early. Due to the weather the park was pretty much empty so we found 2 dry sunbeds undercover and got on with the fun. There were quite a few rides there and Megan actually enjoyed all of them, which was great! I think the best thing of the day was the "Flowrider" which is a standing wave similar to the one I tried in Wild Wadi, Dubai. The system here was better, instead of queuing for ages for just one go, we bought a $5 ticket and got a 30 minute session on the wave. We both absolutely loved it and got the hang of it pretty quick, getting some great photos (and wipe outs for me) in the process. We lasted a lot longer today and got back at about 5pm.We're still here for another day and are having $5 all you can eat pizza tonight, chilling out at the beach tomorrow and leaving for Byron Bay (bloody expensive hostels!!) on Saturday.
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