GoLdCoAsT Day 6 - 22/9/2012

day 6, we bade goodbye to tangalooma and headed to brisbane.

breakfast was the leftover pizza from last night.

took the ferry back to the holt street wharf where the pre-arranged bus picked us to our accomodation in brisbane - hotel george williams.

it's a really small hotel room...

travelling around brisbane..

macdonald for lunch

the train system..

1st destination was to the chinatown

this looks more like malacca than brisbane, right?

  

seriously nothing much there, except for some eateries and grocery shops..... not worth visiting.... quite disappointing cuz i was expecting to find many shops/malls there..

we decided to go to south brisbane after the much disappointing chinatown..

confucius!

initially thought this is those man-made fountains...

but it turned out to be a man-made beach!! and there were soooo many pple!!

quite a sight, really.

the brisbane wheel

our dinner for that day. yum yumm. we were walking along the road when we saw this jap restaurant. the prices written on the poster were reasonable, so we took a seat in the restaurant. who knows, the prices on the menu are different from those on the poster!! and they explained that the prices on the poster are for take-aways only. and given the vast differences in the prices, we decided to ask for takeaways and ate at a bench just in front of the stall. real stupid right... such big diff in prices b/w eating in and eating out..

and after that, we went for a ride on the brisbane wheel

as usual, they will take picture of you before you board, and we bought the pic. besides the hardcopies, we were also able to go to their website and download the softcopies.... 1 pose, 4 settings.

we thought they were celebrating mid-autumn festival.. but turned out to be some drinking session..

in brisbane, ferry is also a mode of transport... just like buses and trains..

night time was of cuz, to the casino again, which was within walking distance from our hotel. the treasury casino...

and i won again!! really happppy :):):)

本年度最受重点栽培的新星。。。。备受瞩目。。。。受力捧。。。。锋芒毕露。。。。a rising star??!

Almost all shops r playing the Xmas songs now.... Xmas decorations r up.... Crabtree n evelyn r busy stocking up to handle the Xmas demand.... Suppose to be the joyous festive season. Hopefully I can be in the mood soon, too.

为什么受伤的不是我。。。。。 I am miserable.

GoLdCoAsT Day 5 - 21/9/12

Day 5 of our goldcoast trip. still at tangalooma - day 2

breakfast that morning was the leftover dinner from last night. really money-saving bah? lol

and then we tried out para-sailing at sgd104/pax. real expensive right?! but it seems like the most exciting sea-sports around.. and we din want to leave without trying at least something.. and so, we went ahead!

tada! that's us!!! high up in the sky!!

it's quite fun and exciting..bit scary esp when the wind is heavy..overall duration was a mere 8-10mins..

our lunch that day.. buffet at sgd30/pax. surprisingly this is cheap.. for a buffet..

wanted to do the sand-taboganning as well... but it was raining that afternn... so we din had a chance to do... boo..

ended up snacking away... haha.. ice cream @ sgd5.20/scoop

night time was to the hi-light of the whole tangalooma stay - dolphins feeding.

as said, many tour packages include the tanglooma in their itinery and the selling point is the dolphins feeding sessions. the dolphins are wild-life dolphins which will come to the resort daily during feeding time. their attendance are also being marked everyday.

so all of us have to queue up for our turn... collect a fish.. and wait for the turn to feed the dolphins. the staff are quite strict about this whole thing.. kept reminding us not to touch the dolphins, not to use flash etc..

tada! that's tinkerbell.

the whole feeding session is very different from what i thought. i thought the dolphins are enclosed are we get to feed as much as we like. but this is not so. the whole process is conducted near the shore and we only get to feed 2-3 fishes. and everything happen so fast, u dont really get to experience the feeding process. and it was soo sooo cold..and dark.... if u ask me, i dont think it's worth visiting tangalooma just for this..

our dinner that night..total SGD60

that more or less round up our 2days in tangalooma. overall, it's a v relaxing place to be at. it is a resort and u can walk around in your swimwear and no one cares. just bask in the sun, engage in sea-sports, rest and relax.. but given the very expensive and long journey, i will not recommend this place. i guess u can bask in the sun and do sea-sports in many other places too (and at a much cheaper rate as well!). and the dolphins feeding is really nothing fantastic. so, if u really have the time, u can visit. if not, i think there'll be no regrets dropping it off.