Gold Coast

Just back from a week up on the Gold Coast at Surfers Paradise (yes that's the name of the town!). It's the school holidays here so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of Queensland sunshine. The Gold Coast is just south of Brisbane and is a major Aussie holiday destination, mainly due to the fantastic year round climate its lucky enough to have. It's made up of several towns along a 30 to 40 mile strech of sandy coastline. Not a bad place to be it has to be said. We spent 6 days there and ventured out to two of the theme parks (Seaworld & Wet 'n' Wild), both of which are very good and no doubt we'll be back there as the kids get older as there are about another 4 or 5 theme parks in the same area aimed at older kids. On the last day we spent a day staying in Brisbane, looking around the city. Year round sunshine and a beautiful city on offer.....we could see ourselves retiring here. Just another 20 years on the treadmill to go though first !! See some of the pictures here.