We drove to the Gold Coast yesterday morning and had lunch there before checking into our hotel for our final evening together. The Gold Coast is an area about one hour south of Brisbane. Those of us from the U.S. might compare it to Miami or another spot where there are lots of high-rise condos and tourism near the sea. The beach here stretches for a long way and is very popular. The sea and the surf was beautiful yesterday.
The area where we had lunch is called Surfers Paradise.
I finally got one great shot of the Australian flag there. It features the Union Jack from its colonial days, a star below the Union Jack with eight points corresponding to the eight states in Australia, and an image of the Southern Cross constellation, which we have seen many nights. It has been fun to see a different sky down here.
One of the things we didn't see but had hoped to were the famous Gold Coast Meter Maids. Starting in 1965, after the city installed parking meters and there was much complaining about parking tickets, someone concerned about the area started a group of gorgeous, gold bikini-clad women to go around with bags of coins plugging the meters so that parking tickets would not be given. Naturally, they became an attraction in and of themselves. This poster on the beach was all we could find of them. Of course, Murray and I were very disappointed. However, we decided it was their loss if they missed an opportunity for a photograph with us.
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