The second week kicked off with a two day trip to Surfers Paradise. Surfers is a town located on Gold Coast which, as the name reveals, is a series of towns on the coast, much like the French Riviera. Surfers, located about one hour south of Brisbane, was originally a place for surfers, hippies, and the likes of trendy people, but as trendy people attract the rich it is now filled with skyscrapers. Apparently the surfers have moved further south to Byron Bay.

We arrived midday on Sunday 4th and spend the afternoon and evening walking around Surfers, checking out stores, the beach, and so on. As you can see, there’s a really beautiful sunset although it goes down towards the country. And although there are many skyscrapers, the beach does not resemble Cannes or Rimini where the whole beach is covered by hotels and their reserved seats. In fact, you could buy something like a 100+ square meter apartment for 3m danish crowns.

The second day we went for a whale watching trip which also gave us the tourist tour of the river and expensive buildings in Surfers. Do note the floating church, interesting place to get married. The picture following the church is the Palazzo Versace, a 5 star hotel created by the Versace brand - unfortunately a tad too expensive for us.

On the water we saw 3 or 4 humpback whales. We got quite a performance, there was a calf that jumped out of the water several times (near-impossible to get good pictures of) and the mother telling us to bugger off with her tail. Not much more to say, the pictures speak for themselves.