Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Gold Coast, Surfurs Paradise and Theme Parks

The gold coast, one of the highlights of our trip !
After Brisbane, we moved to a caravan park near "Surfers Paradise" on the gold coast, it was a home base for going to gold coast theme parks.

Australia's largest theme park concentration is located here.
there are 5 major theme parks, each one so huge, you can't finish it in a full day.

For budget reasons we picked 2 theme parks - each one a full day:
Dream world
Movie world






































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Brisbane

Brisbane - big city, hard driving.
The streets are so crazy - no logic at all.
But all in all a nice city with a nice boardwalk and downtown.
We went to the planetarium here and saw some nice films about the night sky and the stars on the movie sky dome.

This is the river that flows through the city


Here we are at the markets in a jelly bean store


Here we are looking at a real life size statue of a dinosaur in the state museum.

On the boardwalk near the river

They had an artificial beach front and a lagoon there too (can't swim in the river itself)



We were also in a huge toy store down town with puppets of all the movies in different sizes and high quality - you could buy steel light star wars light sabers and an exact high quality darth vader mask and dolls of all the characters from the series "Lost" and many more.

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Rainbow Beach and Fraiser Island






























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