As I drove into Coolangatta I started to get a sense of Deja Vu. Long stretches of golden sand and sea, towering apartment blocks, boutique shops and surf shops were all in attendance creating similarities with other larger surf orientated resorts. Not unlike...
There are several Queensland towns with Tamborine in their name. Mout Tamborine, North Tamborine and my destination, plain and simple, Tamborine. The photo above is one of the main junctions into the township with the stores. The rest of the village consists of a...
Yeerongpilly is a quaint Brisbane suburb. Centred on a one-way system and a strange roundabout system it immediately comes across as quite industrial with car repair shops and the like present and apparently has a large Asian and growing Sub-Saharan African...
Like Strathpine before it, Indooroopilly is another Brisbane suburb which consists of residential property and a large shopping centre (this time the largest in Brisbane’s western suburbs) and a lot of traffic. I popped into the shopping centre but having forgot...
I left Mooloolaba early for Strathpine in the hope of missing traffic. Unfortunately this resulted in me arriving in this north Brisbane suburb at the start of the daily rush hour. The town today appears to comprise of the busy main Gympie Road, leading into Brisbane...
The Mooloolaba tourism website says it all really when they say “Welcome to sun-kissed beaches, boutique shopping and atmospheric dining – in Mooloolaba. Come as you are”. The town comes across as a “mini-me” version of its neighbouring...
