G'day to any who might drop by... I'm back from Surfers Paradise and much rested.
In order to understand my question, THIS might help (they don't do "bloody hell" in England - no wonder we bloody left...)
The Gold Coast...
In the middle of winter... that place is like a mild summer's day. We stayed in a self-contained apartment on the 30th floor overlooking the beach and sea outside the kitchen window, facing the rising sun over the Coral Sea every morning. You'd never get tired of that view.
Bikini babes everywhere.
Where were all these hot girls when I was in school? Did someone drop a drop-dead-gorgeous-bomb on the place?
You go to get coffee and the girl serving at the counter makes you forget what you were planning to order.
Got north of Brisbane into the Sunshine Coast and saw Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (once his father's reptile park), which was strange and moving at the same time. His wife and kids Bindi and little Robert did a presentation, which was something to say I've seen. My daughter, who loves critters, in particular was impressed. Irwin's widow Terri has a lot of guts. Steve's presence is everywhere but she holds it together.
Went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where I remember being mobbed by parrots 32 years ago, when I was just a kid in tow with the family as we drove up from Melbourne. Seaworld and Movieworld of course, where I gave the days over to letting the kids have fun.
Got into rugby, which is "that other code" of football fanatically followed in Australia, but not so familiar to a southerner like me. State of Origin matches are said to be the best rugby in the world. I'm still trying to learn the rules.
Crocs are stone cold super-predators and I learned much about them on this trip. They can hear a kangaroo sipping water from underwater and maybe 50 meters away. Slow their heart from 120 to 3 beats a minute and not eat for six months. The pressure from their jaws is equivalent to a land cruiser being dropped to the ground from a meter up. Fast as a dolphin in the water.
No wonder they've been around since the dinosaurs.
Oh and we went whale watching. The kids threw up, like half the people on the boat, from seasickness... but I enjoyed it.
Coolangatta to Tullamarine took no time at all. But then I'm used to flying to Japan.
Would I want to live there? .... No.
Beautiful... but so is where I'm from.
And I'm married.
In the middle of winter... that place is like a mild summer's day. We stayed in a self-contained apartment on the 30th floor overlooking the beach and sea outside the kitchen window, facing the rising sun over the Coral Sea every morning. You'd never get tired of that view.
Bikini babes everywhere.
Where were all these hot girls when I was in school? Did someone drop a drop-dead-gorgeous-bomb on the place?
You go to get coffee and the girl serving at the counter makes you forget what you were planning to order.
Got north of Brisbane into the Sunshine Coast and saw Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (once his father's reptile park), which was strange and moving at the same time. His wife and kids Bindi and little Robert did a presentation, which was something to say I've seen. My daughter, who loves critters, in particular was impressed. Irwin's widow Terri has a lot of guts. Steve's presence is everywhere but she holds it together.
Went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where I remember being mobbed by parrots 32 years ago, when I was just a kid in tow with the family as we drove up from Melbourne. Seaworld and Movieworld of course, where I gave the days over to letting the kids have fun.
Got into rugby, which is "that other code" of football fanatically followed in Australia, but not so familiar to a southerner like me. State of Origin matches are said to be the best rugby in the world. I'm still trying to learn the rules.
Crocs are stone cold super-predators and I learned much about them on this trip. They can hear a kangaroo sipping water from underwater and maybe 50 meters away. Slow their heart from 120 to 3 beats a minute and not eat for six months. The pressure from their jaws is equivalent to a land cruiser being dropped to the ground from a meter up. Fast as a dolphin in the water.
No wonder they've been around since the dinosaurs.
Oh and we went whale watching. The kids threw up, like half the people on the boat, from seasickness... but I enjoyed it.
Coolangatta to Tullamarine took no time at all. But then I'm used to flying to Japan.
Would I want to live there? .... No.
Beautiful... but so is where I'm from.
And I'm married.
No one ever likes being "welcomed back" when you'er back from a vacation, but welcome back anyway. Sounds like it was fun time and the "scenery" very nice too.
ReplyDeleteNot much going on here, it's dead in the middle of summer here. Hot as hell. 118 degrees is a preview of hell I'm heading for I'm certain I'm just glad I have pool to sit in. It gets so damned hot here, the stearing wheel actualy burn the shit out of my hands. I've actually seen it to hot for aicraf to fly, the air's so thin.