It’s finally time for us to leave Tangalooma Island and head back to the “mainland” – Gold Coast.
First destination for our Gold Coast holiday is Warner Brothers Movie World, which I consider it to be my heaven with my Tweety Bird!!~ I was just so excited to be in Movie World!!~
Alrighty… Since I have some spare time on my hands now, I shall continue updating about my long-long-ago-Gold Coast Trip.. I’m even wondering how long would I take to complete the posts on the holidays.. 😡 Hopefully I would still be able to remember the details of the trip..
I’m still currently on Day 2 (18 August 2011) of my trip.. As we would be staying in Tangalooma Island for just 1 night, we had our day filled with activities.. The last activity for us was a dolphin feeding session..
Around 5.30pm, we had to wait out near the ferry terminal for the main star of the feeding session – the dolphins themselves. These dolphins aren’t owned or reared by the resort, they are the dolphins from the wild, and they even have names which I never got to find out what they were.
After getting every inch of my head filled with sand, we’re brought back to the “main land”.. And I swear that the sand stayed with me all the way.. By scratching my hair, I would get sand in my nails, touching my eyebrows, my nose, my ears, all would return me some sand.. No matter how much I have “taken out”, it seems like there is an endless stream of them.. I even suspected that I was able to produce them.. 😡
When we reached “main land”, we were greeted by a more magnificent sight – the sunset.. The sunset was totally out of the world.. It was a purplish sunset, it could be common, rare,i do not know but it was definitely the 1st that I have ever seen..
Tangalooma island is really filled with activities for us to do. Even though it looks small, there are actually many beautiful sceneries for us to see and enjoy.. After being out in the sea, we’re headed for a more dryer activity, which is the Desert Safari Tour.
The tour started off with us travelling in a 4WD car, and going through what seems like a jungle.. The roads definitely wasn’t smooth, it was more exciting this way..
After getting off the ferry, we soon found ourselves back up on the same ferry.. This time it was for whale-watching.. The waves these time were abit stronger then it was earlier on.. I was kinda surprised that whale watching actually proceeded even with such a weather.. The whole journey lasted around 3 hours..
After sailing on the rather choppy seas for 1hr15mins, we finally reached Tangalooma Island. The weather and the sea wasn’t really friendly towards us on our way to Tangalooma.. Or should I say that the sea was excited to see us and was “jumping up and down”?? hehe..
Listen to the strong wind and look at the waves.. Even the boat was moving up and down, up and down.. We even had a hard time getting off the boat..
18 Aug 2011
After an 8 hour plane ride, we finally touched down at around 6.30am (Australian time). Going through customs was a breeze, we were out in less than 30 mins even though we were warned beforehand that it could actually take us 2 hours to get out of there as they are quite strict with their baggage checks as food-related items aren’t allowed into their country. After getting out, we were told that the custom officers were having some kind of strike?? That was why we managed to get cleared abit faster than usual..
I kinda like how the system of getting through their immigration works. In most countries, people are normally required to have their passport stamped one person at a time. But over here, people can go together as a family. It actually does help save alot of time.. And their immigration officers are super duper friendly, from my point of view. They have this huge smile on their faces, they talk to you in an upbeat tone, unlike some countries where their officers have this black face, bo chap attitude. Well, I guess it all boils down to culture differences.
After leaving the airport, we soon found ourselves at Holt Street Wharf within 15mins, waiting for the ferry to Tangalooma Island. If you were to ask me, Tangalooma can be considered as an equivalent to Singapore’s Sentosa. But we were kinda early for our ferry, about 2 1/2 hours early. We were there super early to the fact that even their office, ticketing weren’t open, and the only person we saw at the Wharf was a cleaner.. Well, I wouldn’t really call that guy a cleaner, I would rather call him an all-rounder as every few minutes, you’ll be seeing him doing different types of jobs around there. It just so happened that when he was sweeping the floor when we alighted from the bus.. hehe. There was nothing much to do around there, thus we just sat around waiting for close to 2 hours.. *yawns*
17 Aug 2011
First trip to a country that is out of Asia.. It was around 8 hours flight to reach Brisbane airport.. Thinking that it was gonna be a long plane journey, we decided to make full use of the dinner buffet voucher at SATS premier club..
However, the dinner wasn’t really necessary as we were being fed “non-stop” on board the plane.. Few minutes after the plane takes off, we get beverages.. About an hour or so into the flight, we get dinner with dessert.. Then an hour later, we get beverages again.. Soon after, we get refreshments, bread, biscuits, etc.. Whoa.. Totally full throughout the flight.. Managed to catch a few movies on board the plane since I couldn’t sleep throughout the whole 8 hours.. And… Argh.. I was almost done watching 2012, when they had to “close” their entertainment system.. What a cliff-hanger…
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