Gold Coast
As we had rushed our journey to Brisbane to get to the cricket in time, we decided to make a day trip to the Gold Coast to see what we had missed on our way up.
The Gold Coast is the height of tackiness. For mile after mile, there are only cheap highrise holiday apartments, nightclubs, bars and casinos. The area is famous for having four theme parks. I’m not really a theme park person, but it didn’t take much persuading for me to agree to come to Sea World. You see, it’s not only a theme park, they also have some sea animals there. There would be shows involving intelligent tricks by dolphins and seals.
We started off by watching ‘The Quest for the Golden Seal’, an epic of a show of almost Shakespearean dialogue. The plot revolved around the main stars of the show trying to find a golden seal. The major star of the show was a sealion called Claude. He did a number of intelligent things, and never missed his cue.
Then we went on the rides. We opted first for the pirate ship. It simply went back and forth, like a big swing, and only went as far as 72 degrees from the vertical. From the bottom, it looked like a pretty tame ride. While I was on it, I remembered why I’m not a big theme park fan. When the ride had finished and I had managed to prise my hands from the safety rail, as well as returned my stomach to where it belonged, we went on the rollercoaster. No problems there.
Later, we did some more rides, saw some dolphins leaping out of the water, saw some sharks, some penguins and some polar bears, and had fully exhausted the park. Fortunately this happened five minutes before closing time.
We drove through Surfers Paradise to see if we were missing out on anything, and concluded that we weren’t so we headed back to Brisbane.
The Gold Coast is the height of tackiness. For mile after mile, there are only cheap highrise holiday apartments, nightclubs, bars and casinos. The area is famous for having four theme parks. I’m not really a theme park person, but it didn’t take much persuading for me to agree to come to Sea World. You see, it’s not only a theme park, they also have some sea animals there. There would be shows involving intelligent tricks by dolphins and seals.
We started off by watching ‘The Quest for the Golden Seal’, an epic of a show of almost Shakespearean dialogue. The plot revolved around the main stars of the show trying to find a golden seal. The major star of the show was a sealion called Claude. He did a number of intelligent things, and never missed his cue.
Then we went on the rides. We opted first for the pirate ship. It simply went back and forth, like a big swing, and only went as far as 72 degrees from the vertical. From the bottom, it looked like a pretty tame ride. While I was on it, I remembered why I’m not a big theme park fan. When the ride had finished and I had managed to prise my hands from the safety rail, as well as returned my stomach to where it belonged, we went on the rollercoaster. No problems there.
Later, we did some more rides, saw some dolphins leaping out of the water, saw some sharks, some penguins and some polar bears, and had fully exhausted the park. Fortunately this happened five minutes before closing time.
We drove through Surfers Paradise to see if we were missing out on anything, and concluded that we weren’t so we headed back to Brisbane.
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