Author Topic: Beach scene in Australia for everyone. (Read 57311 times)

Mydavid · « **Reply #100 on:** December 31, 2006, 08:58:28 PM »

You must have missed my earlier post...have you heard of the city "Tugun"?

lisa

Vince B · « **Reply #101 on:** December 31, 2006, 09:56:41 PM »

I once slept near Coolangatta airport in my car because I couldn't find a motel on the Gold Coast.

Here is a photo from Kirra Beach nearby.

Vince B · « **Reply #102 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:01:59 PM »

Amazing surfing beach at Coolangatta. The word means 'beautiful sight' in Aboriginee.

Vince B · « **Reply #103 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:03:00 PM »

Typical beach scene at Coolangatta.

Vince B · « **Reply #104 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:03:57 PM »

Coolangatta from the air.

Vince B · « **Reply #105 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:19:06 PM »

Here is an old guy thinking he still has what it takes to feel young! Coolangatta was a nice place to visit. Cheap motels, too.

Vince B · « **Reply #106 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:21:51 PM »

When the lifeguards sight a shark they sound a siren and everyone quickly gets out of the water.

Vince B · « **Reply #107 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:28:18 PM »

I will check Tugun Beach when I visit Queensland again. It is about a 12 hour drive north of Sydney.

Photos of Tugan Beach here: http://www.tugunbeach.com/

Vince B · « **Reply #108 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:32:38 PM »

Avoca Beach in on the Central Coast which is about an hour north of Sydney.

Vince B · « **Reply #109 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:35:47 PM »

Girls were quite brave and jumped off this cliff into the rough surf. I did it once and it was quite dangerous. I slid off some slippery rocks in the water! It is about 15 feet to the water. Doesn't seem like much but not everyone could do this. You had to wait for the surf to swell underneath so you didn't hit the rocks. Then you had to climb up the wall when the surf calmed down. Crazy thing to do, really, but I had to do it once.

Vince B · « **Reply #110 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:36:54 PM »

Always some local kid who is fearless and a showoff!

Vince B · « **Reply #111 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:40:19 PM »

See, girls have guts. Aussie girls are quite game for sports. Many take up surfboard riding.

Vince B · « **Reply #112 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:43:03 PM »

I couldn't believe some were swimming in this dangerous surf. You have to know what you are doing or you can get battered and bruised.

Vince B · « **Reply #113 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:49:07 PM »

In Australia just about every schoolkid can swim because they teach lifesaving to them as part of sport each year. I used to teach high school PE and we were the first school in NSW that taught senior boys surf lifesaving. Heck, I am not that good at swimming but I managed to get a group of no-hopers to pass their surf bronze way back in 1975 at Killarney Heights High School.

They let kids into the surf with floating objects. Quite dangerous if you are swimming and they come in and hit you. They don't allow those things in the surf in California where others are swimming.

Vince B · « **Reply #114 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:52:49 PM »

Here is a group in the water after jumping off that cliff. Good fun for the teenagers there. I think I was the only older guy to do that leap that day. I swear time stopped during the jump and it seemed like a long fall.

Vince B · « **Reply #115 on:** December 31, 2006, 10:56:17 PM »

It even took guts to leap in from this lower ledge.

Vince B · « **Reply #116 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:02:04 PM »

We have a Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast. Not far from Avoca Beach.

Vince B · « **Reply #117 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:07:25 PM »

Look at the surf at Byron Bay. Wategoes is a great beach.

240 is Back · « **Reply #118 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:07:34 PM »

Who took the picture?

Vince B · « **Reply #119 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:10:07 PM »

Byron is a must visit if you love the surf.

Vince B · « **Reply #120 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:11:35 PM »

My ex girlfriend Heather took the photo of me. She dumped me for a truck driver.

Vince B · « **Reply #121 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:14:56 PM »

Look at the beauty of Byron Bay. Can you people see yourself here under the palms?

Vince B · « **Reply #122 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:19:02 PM »

Bryon Bay is a subtropical paradise. If it were in Florida it would be just a bit north of Miami. Sydney is on the same lattitude as Northern Florida and LA.

Vince B · « **Reply #123 on:** December 31, 2006, 11:22:59 PM »

You can grow anything near the beach in Byron Bay.

GreatFinn · « **Reply #124 on:** January 01, 2007, 01:22:22 AM »

Quote from: Vince Basile on December 31, 2006, 11:22:59 PM

You can grow anything near the beach in Byron Bay.

Try to grow some ozone layer there, I have heard that you have a shortage of that down there. It really doesn't show in the pictures, but if you read a statistic of the skin cancer in Australia, you get the different picture of your beach life. I bet that problem isn't appreciate there at the way it should be. Your average sun lotion protective factor should be something like 50 000...