Gold Coast

Wednesday 21st
IT WAS A FREEZING NIGHT! We were all zipped up in out sleeping bags with jumpers on. When my alarm went off at 6am for up and at it exercise time it was VERY hard to get out of bed. When I got up I went down to the oval and all the grass was icy! I had to get going quick and when I finished my running I was still numb! AHHH. I saw a hare as I was running. We haven't seen hares or rabbits for a long time. When I got back to the caravan Tim was cooking and had the kettle boiling to get the caravan warm. It took quite a while for everyone to warm up.  He checked the weather and it was 3 over night!
We packed up and said goodbye to our neighbours here who were from Tamworth, and in our warm car we headed for Brisbane.

This is the bridge over the Brisbane river. It's hard to see in this picture but it was quite steep.
We got on the M1 and stayed on that all the way through to the Gold Coast. We got to Palm Beach, which is just south of Surfers Paradise, at lunch time. Got onto our site at Palm Beach caravan park and the kids wanted to try swimming in the swimming pools.

There are 3 pools. The pools were very cold and the kids didn't last very long.

 We then walked to the beach but that was a little cold for swimming. The kids haven't played in sand for ages so they made up for lost time.

You can see Surfers Paradise in the back ground. Nicely graded sand beaches here.