Gold Coast Day 1

Wednesday, 20 April 2022

It took a while to leave the apartment yesterday but we finally got out the door around 1pm with a plan to visit some waterfalls then a glow-worm cave as it got dark.   

The first destination was the Twin Falls circuit walk - which was really fantastic. It was an hours fairly arduous driving to the west of the Gold Coast up into the green hills.

The circuit was 5ish km and took us down, around, behind and above a beautiful series of waterfalls that looked out onto lush canyons with the buildings of the Gold Coast in the far off distance. 

It was a tropical version of similar Blue Mountains walks around Wentworth Falls.  We had entertained thoughts of swimming at the bottom of one of the falls it wasn't as hot as down on the coast so we really just carried our towels around the circuit. 

After we completed the circuit we drove half an hour around to Natural Bridge.

It was a short walk to the bridge which had a cave that is filled with glow worms. Our plan was to stay until it was dark so we could see in their full glory but the kids were freaked out by the bats who also lived in the cave - so we spotted just a few glow worms then left it at that.

Also there were gangs of youths in the area so we thought it was wise to leave before it got dark

We drove back to the Gold Coast where the kids made dinner while Jon and I swum in the pool. perfect.