Irene's Blog

Well, that's another holiday to Surfers Paradise gone and we had a brilliant time yet again. The weather was beautiful every day with temperatures being around 25ºC with only a little rain overnight on two nights, but it dried up quickly in the morning. We had a very nice apartment at the Surfers Plaza above the Commerce Bowling Club where they served cheap meals in the restaurant and had a bar with live entertainment and you could try lawn bowls if you wished - we didn't because we didn't want to make fools of ourselves!!! This is a view of our apartment We went on the whale watching trip which leaves from Appel Park on the river at Surfers which was really convenient with our apartment building being a short stroll from the wharf. I didn't think we'd see any whales but we saw at least 6 and they were very active. We also went to the Australian Outback Spectacular which was excellent. The 3 course meal served was good too, but the trick riding was brilliant. The au