13/06/2015
Main Beach – Surfers
Paradise
It was raining heavily
yesterday night, but the van seems to be water proof. The big drops
made quite some noise, but in a pleasant way, especially noticeable
because everything around was silent.
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| I guess you have to set the dress code clearly on the door and focus on the essentials ;-) |
It rained quite a bit in
the morning as well, got wet going to the shower, then on my way to
the camp kitchen and back. Left Byron Bay late morning, no point
staying at the beach or going on the nice walks in this kind of
weather.
I stopped in Tweeds Head
and Coolangatta on the way up, had some good coffee and a second
breakfast.
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| Another boutique roaster |
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| Second breakfast, and first slices of bread this week |
Gold Coast, a metropolitan
already in Queensland, is a huge conglomerate and from what I read
recently has already around 600 000 inhabitants. I guess it must look
like Miami, you got a wonderful beach but then skyscrapers and other
tall, high rising apartment and hotel buildings right next to it. Not
my cup of tea to be honest.
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| Downtown camping |
Anyway, I checked in at
the Main Beach caravan park. Great park and the second most expensive
so far – coming very close to Byron Bay prices! But the location is
really good too, the beach is just across the road it is only about a
3 km walk to downtown Surfers Paradise.
Despite the weather, I
walked along the foreshore into Surfers Paradise. My Mammut gear kept
me quite dry. After a good, almost 1.5 hour walk, including strolling
around in the mall, I returned to the caravan park and tried the
heated pool. Quite nice on a rainy, miserably grayish day.
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| The walk down from Main Beach to Surfers was nice but wet |
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| Downtown Surfers Paradise |
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| An Australian white ibis - one of the regular birds hanging around here in Queensland |
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| Lifeguards were on duty, despite the weather conditions |
Mel, the super high energy
girl that we met 2 years ago on the Kimberley trip, lives in Main
Beach as well, right next to the caravan park. Catching up with her
was, as expected, extremely good fun. As she's a professional hair
stylist, I seized the opportunity to get styled up for Brisbane.
Getting my hair cut on the 11th floor of a high rising
apartment building with good views of Main Beach and with a glass of
red wine to fight the cold and wet weather was a treat.
Over a delicious Thai
dinner, we laughed a lot, shared our memories from the Kimberley trip
and spoke about what happened in the meanwhile. Mel is going on the
same ragged Adventure Expedition to the Kimberley's again. She hadn't
had a holiday in between and how she called it the 'aboriginal' in
her needs a bit of outback again. A cool thing she showed me was that
she made it onto the cover of the magazine from the tour company,
with one of the many photos I took at our last trip. Awesome!
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| Mel (with here usual energy level) and Alex in the background. The full brochure with some more awesome photos can be found here |
Distance traveled: 99 km
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