Yesterday was our last day in Surfers Paradise. Our tourist trip included an IVenture card, which is much like our City Cards. The pass included loads of tourist trap things to do. Yesterday, our tourist adventures include a tall ship cruise on the bay or riverside of the spits that form the Gold Coast. It was every bit of one of our typical booze cruises in the US. You could go on speedboat rides, and parasailing, hang on the beach, or kayak. We kayaked, and walked the beach.
Our big Australia excitement for the day was finding army’s of solider crabs on the muddy beach a bit away from all the hustle of the booze cruise. Very Alien Life form like! We chased them up and down the beach until Ethan was covered in mud! Then we ran across some boys shoving a pipe like sieve into the sand than searching the mud the brought up with this device. They were hunting Yabbys a small crayfish like animal to use for fishing and eating. Ethan took a go at hunting Yabbys and was completely enthralled.
Back at the barbecue area we saw a monitor lizard and a wallaby just hanging out. They live wild on the island. No photos of the wallaby but we did capture the crabs, yabbys, and a lizard on film.
We mad it back to our beach area resort in time to catch a few more waves to belly surf just before they closed the beach. Did I say earlier how warm the water is here? Even at dusk in the breeze the water felt great for our playtime,
Today, we will be on buses and planes almost all day getting to Cairns.
Monitor Lizards
Solider Crabs
Yabby’s
Until next post
Our Trip to Australia 