Off To The Gold Coast!

Gold Coast ~ by Tejas

Gold Coast is a city on the East coast of Australia.  About 10.5 Million visitors come every year.  The Gold Coast is home to 530,000 people with beautiful beaches.  Also, home to the very painful Blue Bottle Jellyfish.  Oh yeah, I got stung by another Blue Bottle Jellyfish AGAIN!  The sting goes all the way down my forearm.  The Gold Coast gets 300 days of sunshine.  It stretches 57km across the coast of Queensland, Australia.  It’s only 60 km from New South Wales.  Gold Coast is known for its surfing beaches like Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, and Miami.  It has Australia’s tallest building, Q1.  It is 322.5m above the street.  You can also go on a whale watch cruise to see the whales jump up above water and back down to the river.  Gold Coasts waves are very high, that’s why we rented a surfboard and went surfing.  Everyone did a great job, but it was hard because the waves came fast and rough, and we’re still learning the basics of surfing.  Gold Coast was an amazing place to visit with its Tambourine Mountain, Surfers Paradise, and Movie World. A lot of movies are filmed in Gold Coast because of the weather being so consistent including Thor Ragnarok, Peter Pan, Chronicles Of Narnia, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Aquaman. 

Tamborine Mountain ~ by Nix

When we were in Gold Coast we went on a tour to Tamborine Mountain. Tamborine

Mountain is 525m tall. It is a plateau at the top so people live up there. Right now 7000 people live up there. We walked through Tamborine National Park  which is a Rain forest, we saw water dragon’s (a big lizard) we saw a enormous WATER DRAGON! We walked exactly 210 stairs in the Rain forest.

In the open area outside of the Rain Forest we saw kangaroos very close to us. 

Boomerangs! ~ by Jovan

In this blog post I will talk about the boomerang. Some countries may think that a boomerang is a dangerous weapon like America because one time they didn’t let a YouTuber take their boomerang with him, it was a hunting weapon for Indigenous Australians a long time ago but now used to play with or for sport fun. On our tour in the Gold Coast we actually learned how to throw a boomerang. It is very complicated but if you do it right it really does come back to you. There are two types of boomerangs; 1.The display boomerang to display and look nice, 2. The throwing boomerang. The the throwing boomerang has something that is like a section of different paint that you put your hand on and the other display boomerang does not. A long long time ago the first humans used boomerangs, but not to kill, to scare. There would be a front group and a back group the back group would have weapons and the front would have boomerangs the front row would throw the boomerangs so the animals would go back and then the back row would kill the animal. 

We all had a chance to practice throwing a boomerang after our lesson, and I bought one to take home and practice in my backyard.