Mount-Tamborine

12th & 13th January 2010 Something that Aunty Mary had asked us to do while we were here was to help sort out a laptop for her and Billy, so yesterday morning was spent shopping for the right computer. With our mission achieved we returned home. Then we went for a drive around Sanctuary Cove, which is an exclusive development on the Northern Gold Coast. Ed had just finished saying how we hadn’t seen any Kangaroos and disputing their existence when we rounded the corner and there were three of them sat in the middle of an island on this exclusive housing development looking just like large bunny rabbits. ...

11th January 2010 We’ve booked a hire car for the next three days so as we can go out and explore areas around Surfers Paradise, particularly the Hinterland, which is quite beautiful. On picking up the car we decided to go to Mount Tamborine, driving up through the bush with fantastic views of Surfers Paradise and the massive Q1 building standing out on the horizon. We drove through Eagle Heights, which is the largest settlement up on Mount Tamborine with its 500m street of art galleries and cafes and headed for North Tamborine. ...