Australia - Day3 *Gold Coast*

Day 3, 26 May 09


Today, we no longer overnight in Brisbane. In fact, we would enjoy the next 2 days in Gold Coast. This morning I woke up rather early. As HY's friends would be going to the airport at 8am, so we had to leave at this hour as no one would be left to lock the doors.

As usual, the journey to Gold Coast was about 40 minutes. We arrived at Vibe Hotel rather early, but gladly, the receptionist allowed us to check in. We paid additional AUD10 per night to upgrade to a deluxe room with superb river view.


Fantastic view from the room's balcony




At about 10am, we went for the brunch at a Vietnamese restaurant which was just opposite Louis Vuitton. I had rice vermicelli spring roll, while HY ordered dumpling noodle soup.

Vietnamese breakfast




Then, we went to our location for today - Seaworld. The queue were not long, as today was Tuesday, so not really having good business. Since we had our tickets which were purchased online, so we went to a lane on the left to enter. But it was weird as no one was there to verify our print-out ticket. Funny, so we entered without scanning the ticket!!! Firstly, we took the cablecar to an outdoor theatre for watching the dolphin show.

Seaworld Cablecar




Dolphin Nursery




Dolphin Show




After the show, we went to a few interesting spots nearby to see the penguin, ray reef, starfish, sea cucumber, shark and polar bear.


Penguin




Starfish




Shark @ Shark Bay Aquarium




Polar Bear




Actually we were not quite interested in watching animals. But it was indeed a good experience to have a close and natural encounter with them. After having a snack bite and some shopping for souvenirs, we went for a stroll at few more locations such as the Sesame Street (this is mainly for kids), JetRescue and Pelican rehabilitation area. We left at about 3pm, and HY bought a Dugong for me :)

After this, we moved on to Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. HY bought quite a lot there, but I didnt buy one single piece. Since it closed at 5.30pm, so the shopping was kind of rush. We had our dinner at the foodcourt. Before going back to hotel, we went to Coles and bought huge bulk of food such as muffin, chocolate milk, orange juice, biscuits, noodles, intended to feed ourselves late at night since there was nothing else that we can do......