Day 3 - Surfers Paradise

Oh ya, I forgot to mention I met a new roommate when I was back to hotel the 2nd night, a French, he was on internship at Perth for half a year, then he flew to Sydney and Cairns, then to Gold Coast, but he only stayed in Gold Coast for just a night, he flew to KL the next day, will be in KL for 14 hours before he flew to HK for 1 week, then back to France.

English isn't his mother tongue, he only learnt it when he was in Perth, so he can't speak that fast, but it was good considered that he just learnt it for such a short time, anyway, the way he spoke was quite funny, he had lots of actions while talking, so it was actually quite nice to chat with him, haha..

I booked my accommodation for my 3rd and 4th day at surfers paradise at a hotel called Islander Hotel, it wasn't that good, room is hot compare to my first hotel where I had air-con. =)

Anyway, I planned to spend my 3rd day at Surfers Paradise, so before I left Coolangatta, I went to a look out point, it is somehow on top of a small hill, with all my luggages with me, I was wondering whether I should go up, but I still went up at last considering that could be the last time I came here. It was actually quite nice, I can see the beaches and the famous Kirra beach.

Although this beach is quieter than Surfers Paradise Beach, but there are still a lots of surfers on the beach, it was actually quite nice and enjoyable, in the morning, those backpackers just wear a beach pants, and carry their surf board and go to the beach to surf, how cool is that? You can see lots of people are just enjoying their life like that, it's pretty awesome actually.

While I was taking pictures on the look out point, somebody talked to me, it was the French roommate, he checked out earlier than me, but his flight to KL was at night, so I invited him to go to Surfers Paradise together since he didn't get to travel much as he only stayed in Gold Coast for 1 night (what a waste.. hhmm..) Anyway, we went to Surfers Paradise by bus, about an hour trip.

After I checked in to my new hotel, we decided to went to a place called Qdeck, or Q1, it is 322.5 metres tall, it offers 360 degrees view anywhere in Gold Coast, or even Brisbane! It's the only one beach side observation deck in Australia, the lifts inside Qdeck are crazy, bloody fast, it is the world fastest elevator I think, it sent us went up to 77 floors in just 43 seconds, I did record down how fast the numbers of the floors changing in the lift, haha..

322.5 metres tall doesn't sound not that great isn't it? Compare to our Twin Tower, this might be nothing, but it seems that it's the highest residential building in the world, it ranks 25th in world's tallest building. In Qdeck, it keep saying that it's taller than the Eiffel Towel in France, I wonder what my French friend was thinking, haha..

Well, enough of the fact of Qdeck, so what if it is the world tallest building? It's the view up there matters! It was really really good, what was in front of my eyes was just like what I saw in the postcard of Gold Coast! I took a lots of photos, but because of the reflection on the windows, it might not look good though.

It's water everywhere, check out the island in the middle of the picture, it's in heart shape!

And this is my French friend, his name is Archambaud Millet, French name is just so hard to pronounce, so he asked me to call him Archy instead.. haha..

And thanks to him, there's somebody travelled with me, so I can ask him to take photo for me! I looked so small compare with him, kns..

After Qdeck, we went to Hard Rock Cafe!

Not a big fans of that, but at least I been there! haha, this is outside of the Hard Rock Cafe..

There are 2 storey in the cafe, lower floor is a shop, selling all those Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt, jackets, and all the accessory, then walk upstairs, it's the cafe, there was a band singing and playing music there, and it's quite full at that time we went, the food isn't cheap as well, hhmm..

And this was taken at night, I stayed very near to Hard Rock Cafe actually..

After that we went to the BEACH! The beach of Surfers Paradise! But I have my camera and all, so I didn't go into water, just walk around the beach and take photos, the weather was quite hot at that time, lots of people playing at the beach..

the wave there was big, which was good for surfing, those people who didn't surf, were still playing with the wave, let the wave hit them, looked fun!

Some of them just lying at the beach for suntanning. =)

Check out the wave, it's quite big, it's fun!

After the beach, we walked around Surfers Paradise town area, have a lunch..

It was quite normal for guy to just walk around without shirt, girls with their bikini, it's at the beach! What do u expect? haha..

After we walked around the town, it's about time for Archy to go to airport for his flight to KL, he planned to go Twin Towers within the 14 hours, he said Euro is big compare to RM, so he is gonna take taxi from airport to twin towers, kns. I asked him to go to Low Yat Plaza as well, as he said he wanted to get a digital camera at Malaysia. I asked him how was Malaysia that day through facebook that day, and that was what I got:

"eheh :P Twin's tower was good, but KL is very durty :/ (around low yat). Anyway, thx you and come on in Paris when you want :)"

Durty = Dirty, what a shame right? Tourist remember nothing, but dirty..

Anyway, after sent off Archy, I went back to hotel, drop all my camera stuffs, walked to the beach barefooted, hang my clothes on a tree, and jump in the water, it's Pacific Ocean! The wave was quite strong, it's just so fun to play around with the wave, there were Rescue Team there to look after us, so it wasn't that dangerous! When I went that time, it was quite late already, so it's getting colder, didn't get to play in the water for too long as I really cant stand the coldness, haha.. Then I lied on the beach to just relax myself...

It'll be really really fun to go with a group of people, I am looking forward to go if you all if you are interested!

One day... we will!

-To be continued.