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Arriving at night, first impressions of Surfers Paradise in the Gold Coast can be that it's a bit tacky, as revellers stagger round the streets and the roads are filled with pre-pubescent Kev's pumping music from their pimped up yutes. However in daytime this place becomes as the name suggests - paradise. The Gold Coast has plenty to offer. Great beaches, great surf, great bars, great hotels, lots of places to eat, and best of all after the hit and miss weather in Sydney, lots of sun. Temperatures are up in the 30's and even hotter inland if you go somewhere like Steve Irwin's zoo. So lads you will need those wraparound sunglasses as this place is like a big outdoor Spearmint Rhino's! |
 Anyone know why it's called The Gold Coast? |
 An aerial view of Surfers Paradise looks impressive |
 With the sea to the right, the view from the hotel balcony was awesome |
 residential seafront apartments were everywhere |
 Beach was just a little bit more golden than Blackpool |
 Mansions of the really rich were set back from the apartment blocks |
 Each residential estate of mansions has a road at the front of the house and an equivalent waterway behind to park your boat! |
 Imagine this view from your back garden
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 Waves could be pretty monstrous |
 Hotel foyer was polished to perfection |
 Cavill Avenue - the main street of nightlife |
 Clubflat worked it's way through all the bar taps |
 Steve Irwin is alive and spotted playing a guitar in The Gold Coast |
 An uncanny resemblance to Steve Irwin (roll mouse over pic). Crikey! |
 Lift pass was an improvisation |
 The Marriott hotel's pool was a cool man-made lagoon |
 Lagoon pool even had fish and a sandy beach! |
 Like being drunk on a night out seeing who could pee the highest |
 The Gold Coast rebels were the punk pigeons |
 More big Ozzie steaks at cheaper than UK prices, bring it on |
 If your hands aren't free there's only one place to hold it |
 Hero's magazine shot pose needed some more work |
 Few too many beers that night
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 Why oh why would you put a window in-between the bedroom and the bathroom and then also have the blinds operated from the bedroom side? Great fun though when your missus is on the bog |
 MTV had arrived to 'pimp my yute' |
 Posh yute's were all the teenage rage in Oz |
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