After staying with Vicky and Allan we headed back down the Gold Coast to Burleigh Heads, another great surf spot that was also supposed to be the quiet part of the coast. It didn’t disappoint. Burleigh was like a tiny, sunny Cornish village with a lovely headland and nice beach. I did lots of looking [...]
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Burleigh Heads
Posted in Activities, Australia, Gold Coast, Surfing on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Surfers Paradise and Southport
Posted in Australia, Gold Coast on Monday, 15 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The main reason that we had gone to the Goldie was to see my friend Vicky, who is an ex-colleague from Poole Hospital. Vicky left England about three years ago to go travelling. She met a guy (called Allan) in Oz, got sponsored as an OT and has been out here ever since. I had [...]
Coolangatta and Tweeds Head
Posted in Activities, Australia, Gold Coast, Surfing on Friday, 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like Bournemouth runs into Poole, Coolangatta (or Cooly as it’s known) seamlessly links into Tweed Heads. The odd thing about this is that Cooly is in Queensland and Tweed Heads in is New South Wales. Cooly is a little beach town with some world class surf breaks which are home to Mick Fanning and Joel [...]
