Surfing at Burleigh

There’s only one way to properly follow up a few nights at Kingscliff, and that’s with a few nights at Burleigh. So from Sunday to Tuesday, Nick stayed with Kristy and I, plus Mum and Dad Harvey at the Mediterranean Resort on North Burleigh beach. We had an amazing view from our ninth floor apartment!

We spent a few hours in Surfers, where we took Nick up Q1 for the best view of the Gold Coast. I think Nick best summed up the view by saying, “I can see why you don’t have any trouble with crowding on your beaches here – it’s huge!”. It’s so easy to forget how lucky we are in Queensland!

Nick also wanted to have a surfing lesson while he was in Australia, so he hooked one up for Monday morning with some mob he found on the internet. When we jumped in the car, our instructor introduced himself as “Munga”, a name which rang some bells for me but I couldn’t place initially. Eventually it came to me and I said to him, “you’re not Munga as in, Munga Barry, are you?”, and to my surprise, it most certainly was! I was floored!

Suffice to say, the guy knows a thing or two about catching a wave, and for an hour and a half, he passed on some of his wisdom to us. It was great fun – extremely tiring but very rewarding. After the lesson, we hired a board to share between us for further practice, but it would seem that neither of us are ready to enter the world championship’s just yet. I’m still much more comfortable on my trusty old Manta Speed!

The other highlight of our visit to the Goldie was dinner at Moo Moo steakhouse. Brother Jason wisely instructed us to get the house special – a 1KG roast steak, which is so amazing it defies description. Stupidly, I didn’t have my camera to take a photo of it, but without doubt, it was the best steak that I have ever eaten, and I’m thoroughly looking forward to the day that I order another one!