Beach Day on the Gold Coast

We decided to "take a day off" our hectic pace of the last several weeks and just go to the beach. Hence, an abbreviated post today as nothing happened. We avoided the busy Surfers Paradise Beach and opted for Main Beach, a five minute drive from our apartment. We packed up the chilly bin with some lunch and drinks and found a bit of partial shade to sit and watch the 2 - 3 metre surf for the day.

We did go for a beach walk almost to the main beach at Surfers and were surprised by how few people were actually on the beach in this area. Beautiful gold sand to walk in and almost no shells.

Air temperature 30 C, water temperature 26 C. You can't get much better than that. Here, you are only allowed to swim in lifeguarded areas but they were only letting you go a bit beyond waist deep because of the strong rips caused by the surf. Otherwise the lifeguards yell at you over their loudspeaker equipped truck.

We returned to the apartment for a swim in the pool and sat on the patio doing some trip planning.

Dinner tonight is a steak and veggies on an Aussie style barbie. No open grates like we have in North America.

The barbie lighting procedure was bit of a mystery. Apparently I didn't quite have it correct and the gas erupted on my second attempt. Now I have no hair on my right arm. Instant Brazilian!

Early to bed tonight as we are off to Springbrook National Park in the hinterland tomorrow for some hiking.