Nearly two weeks since we pulled into the Broadwater Caravan Park at Southport, how time has flown. The weather here has been a nice low to mid 20's the only thing that has made it unpleasant some days has been the wind. Lucky for us we have a sheltered spot so the 50 klm gusts have not caused us too much bother. We have still been able to walk, ride our bikes and I have been swimming every morning in the heated pool, we are trying to counteract the occasional trip to Goldsteins Bakery with some excerise! Since we were at this park a couple of years ago the new managers have introduced sausage sizzles, pancake breakfast's, happy hours and picture nights on the foreshore. Wednesday night's is Pizza night with a mobile wood fired pizza guy coming to the park selling pizza's.
The southern end of the Gold Coast experienced some very rough weather about 10 days ago resulting in the closing of some of the beachs, the weather also causied some sand erosion along the coast. There was plenty of swell about for the many surfers to enjoy and plenty of spectators.
I think I am shopped out after being to Harbour Town a couple of times, also Trade Secrets and numerous trips to the Billabong, Quicksilver outlets out towards Nerang. Now need to find a spot in the van to store all the goodies that I just had to buy for the grand kids.
We were only intending to stay here for a week, but have now extended our stay a couple of times as we are enjoying the time here, also the weather further south has not been looking so good so thought if we hang around for awhile things may have settled by the time we move on. Maree and Brian are also here as were Judy and Merv their friends who left on Monday, they are on the boat a week before us so have started making the journey south, Maree and Brian leave Sunday to return home to Newcastle. We have noticed that the park has a few more vacant spots than when we first arrived as all the Southerners are now moving south or within the next two to three weeks there will be a mass exit of Grey Nomads.
We must go back around to the prawn trawlers and get another feed of fresh King Prawns before we go, nothing beats fresh prawns that were caught that night.
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| Gold Coast high rises |
Line up for the sausage sizzle
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| Burleigh Heads beach closed due to rough weather |
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| Burleigh Heads Beach |
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| Burleigh Heads Bluff, great spot for watching the surfers |
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| Pizza night in the park |
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Movie night on the foreshore
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