I wanted to use this blog post to talk a bit about the things we love about Australia and the things we have managed to do on our days and afternoons off.. And post a bunch of photos of course..
Surfers Paradise & Main Beach Board Walk
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| Surfers Paradise Boardwalk |
Aqua Duck
We got the girls Aqua Duck tickets for xmas (thanks Viv for the great gift idea!) and joined them and their dad for the tour. We drove through Surfers Paradise and down the boat launch into the water. We were all lucky enough to see some dolphins while in the water and the girls each got to drive the boat in the water!
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| Lyric and Baylee posing after their ride. |
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| Lyric and Sean |
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| Baylee - she likes to make faces at Trevor and call him "Stinka" |
Pelicans in Labrador
Everyday around noon we watch from our apartment as the Pelicans glide down into Labrador. They spend an hour or so standing atop the lights waiting for their daily lunch. The fish market across the street feeds them fish bits every day at 1pm.
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| Pelicans sitting on the lights across the street from our apartment. |
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| Pelicans at the Broadwwater beach across the street from our apartment. |
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| Lunch time! |
Iron Man
We went to watch the iron man competitions in Surfers Paradise where they have to do several massive laps of swimming in the ocean, than on a knee board and in a kyak as well as a run through the sand for a couple of hours.
Furry's Reptile and Dragon Show
Racheal and Micheal picked us up to take us out to a reptile and dragon show that this guy, Furry, puts on at a pub in the hinterland (interior). We had a great day drinking, feeding the animals, learning about reptiles and betting on a toad race. And Mike and Rach won some money in the Toad race!!
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| Mike and his alpaca buddy |
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| Trevor feeding the deer with grass out of his mouth |
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| Trevor and Micheal |
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| Me and Racheal |
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| My friend Crockadilly and I; he's smiling for the photo. |
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| Racheal |
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| Furry writing down the bets. We are team Knuck (Canuck). |
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| Trevor, Micheal and Racheal watching the toad race. |
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| Green space around the pub |
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| Trees covered in vines around the pub |
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| Creek bed next to the pub |
Ripleys Believe It or Not
One evening we went down to the Ripleys Believe it or Not Odditorium. It has all kinds of creepy artifacts, mannequins and stories. In one part of the museum they had a couple of mirrors and some facts regarding the percentage of people that can roll or fold their tongues. At the end of the museum we came to this dark room and realized that we were behind those mirrors watching people look like idiots trying to roll and fold their tongues in the mirror.. hahaha
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| World's largest man |
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| Micheal Jackson painted on to several crickets in the "world's smallest" part of the museum |
Gold Coast Beaches
We have obviously been spending a great deal of time at the beach. We try and make it at least 3 or 4 times a week for a walk, swim or to layout in the sun. Late February was extremely rainy here so any time the sun would come out we would run down to the beach. After a couple of good storms the water became foamy as it hit the beach. A couple more weeks of rain and the beach as been washed away, along with stairwells at beach access points and in some areas even the life gaurd towers were falling over as the sand was washed away. Many beachfront properties have lost portions of their land, fences, etc.
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| Beach with just a slight slope before the storms |
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| Foam at the beach |
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| Foam at the beach |
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| Errosion of the beach begins and creates a short sand wall |
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| Current condition of the beach after major erosion. Huge, steep sandbank. |
Hope you all enjoyed the photos!
