The Gold Coast

Sunday Feb. 27

Remember the description of the place we were staying at for the last 3 nights in Brisbane and the view we had…..yes no view and frosted glass!!! Well we are now in Coolangata on the Gold Coast….known for beaches and surfing……..well as I write this I can look up and see this view!

　
　
　What a difference, we are at the Greenmount Hotel Resort on the 8^th floor on our balcony, relaxing.

We were picked up this morning by a company that we had booked to pick us up at our hotel in Brisbane and drop us and our luggage here at the front door, about 100 km south of Brisbane.. We made one stop along the way…to pick up 8 Japanese students at a mall about 15 minutes outside B. who were going to Seaworld at Surfer’s Paradise. Well that really worked in our favor because instead of an inland freeway trip to our destination the driver took us all the way down the coast on the scenic route. Through the beach areas and the small towns giving us commentary as he drove. We arrived at our hotel about 11:30 too early to check in but got to make use of the pool facilities until our room was ready.

From the pool we could hear announcements going on at the beach behind us….a surfing competition was taking place (Quicksilver/Roxy Pro competition)….by the time we got our room and got down to that beach the first round of competition was over and we will see if the waves are cooperate for the surfers we will watch round two tomorrow. We walked along the walk beside the beach for a about a kilometre and then circled back towards our hotel…picking up some groceries along the way. Now we are relaxing and enjoying our view. Tonight we will head down to the unnamed free wifi restaurant to post this blog.

Snow...what snow! Do we have to come back to winter?

PS To those of you who are wondering what the heck TimTams are....they are delicious melt in your mouth chocolate covered cookies (Cynthia where do you get them back home?)