Gold Coast
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The more touristy second city of Queensland.
A very popular summer holiday spot, although it is still also good in the other seasons as it’s warm most of the year.
You can walk from one end to the other along the foreshore if the fancy takes you, you’ll get to see many a sweet beachside park.
The Theme Parks
The Gold Coast is probably most well known for being home to Australia’s best theme parks.
Wet ‘n’ Wild, Seaworld and Movie World are all part of one unholy alliance, leaving Dreamworld out in the cold and not invited to the “Three Park Super Pass” scheme.
Wet 'n' Wild
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Nothing but water slides.
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Tom Says: It is probably my favourite thing in Queensland. |
Seaworld
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Seaworld is a sea world. There’s a bunch of wildlife exhibits, you can swim with dolphins and so on. They also have a bunch of waterslides.
Movie World
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Warner Brother’s Movie World on the Gold Coast is all about Movies. There’s even a studio next door, and its slogan is “Hollywood on the Gold Coast”
All the rides are appropriately film/cartoon themed.
Dreamworld
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Aside from being the odd one out, Dreamworld’s other claim to fame was the Australian series of Big Brother being filmed on the premises. They used to open the complex up when it wasn’t occupied, but it has since been knocked down.
Dreamworld now also has an accompanying water park, WhiteWater World. Together, they are the country’s largest theme park.
Tamborine Mountain
Website • Google Maps • Wikipedia • QLD National Parks info page
Home to many an amazing waterfall
Also home to exciting tea places, places that offer scones and botanical gardens. It’s part of the Gold Coast tourist region, so there’s a lot of places that you can pay to do things.
The Parks up here all seem to have little paths off to the side, they make me happy, unlike parks down here in Melbourne which have an air of “You shall have fun here, and here. BUT NOT OVER THERE!”
Infinity
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A weird maze with lasers and mirrors. Lots of illusions. Very futuristic. Do your best not to walk into the mirrors.
It can be difficult to sit back and enjoy it rather than try to figure out how everything works.
A must-see attraction that you must see.