Back from the beach

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Travelled north for a wedding and spent a few days on the Gold Coast. I find it wonderful that there can still be so much beauty left in a place that has in many ways become so worn and tainted. Driving along the main highway brings back many memories from my childhood visits. Delight in seeing that some things remain the same amongst all the change. At the tacky end, that while the Pink Poodle motel has been demolished, the front section of the new multi storey building retains the name and a replica pink neon poodle sign. In contrast, walking around Burleigh Heads, probably the last place in South East Qld where rainforest still reaches down to the sea over an ancient lava flow. Travelling up Currumbin Valley, just a few minutes and the high rise are replaced by green pasture, and then rainforest lapping the escarpment. At dusk we watched divers whoop and plunge into a cool rockpool, then we turned back to the coast, the glowing towers rising behind the sand and the rainbow lorikeets calling as they reurn to their roost.