Gondwanaland Beaches

When you go to the beach for a holiday, you are actually supposed to visit the beach itself - particularly when you are at one of the best beaches in the world. After all, the Gold Coast is known throughout the world, and here I am, within easy walking distance. It can't be more than 100 metres away, at the end of the street. There is actually a reserve that surrounds us, which has the highest koala in somewhere - NSW? Australia? the northern NSW coast? - anyway, I have even seen a few without even trying. So it is a pretty impressive place even without the Gondwanaland World Heritage areas.

So today I visited the beaches, and when I get home you will see that they are very nice indeed.

But the beaches also have the occasional rocky headland interrupting beach almost as far as the eye can see. These headlands are really interesting because they are part of the Mount Warning volcano. At Fingel's Head, there is a tessilated pavement, called the Giants Causeway. At Hastings Point there is another basalt headland. So, even the coastline itself is part of the volcano.

I also went to the Aboriginal cultural centre. The museum was shut because they were away for two weeks training, but the bora ring (original) and the mangrove walk and boardwalk were still open, and they were very good.