BROADBEACH is home to the widest imaginable variety of award winning restaurants, the enormous Broadbeach Convention Centre, Jupiter’s Casino and Pacific Fair shopping centre along with Kurrawa Surf Lifesaving Club which overlooks the beach and is often the venue for National Championships. Visit the Lantern Markets from September to May or Beachfront Markets at Kurrawa Park on the first and third Sundays of the month. Picnic or BBQ in Kurrawa Park or Cascade Gardens or perhaps Albert Park at Broadbeach Waters which has bicycle and walking paths around the lake. The Gold Coast Turf Club is close by at Bundall near the site of the first racecourse and cricket club which opened in 1877.

The Mermaid Beach Surf Lifesaving Club is the hub of well to do MERMAID BEACH and Hedges Ave is the Beverly Hills of the Gold Coast as it contains some of the most expensive real estate in Australia. John Oxley, Surveyor General of New South Wales, Robert Stirling, a cartographer and John Uniacke, a colonial officer landed from the cutter ‘Mermaid’ on a Gold Coast beach in 1823 and subsequently on 11th September 1946 the name Mermaid Beach was approved by the Queensland Minister of Lands. Oxley also named the Tweed River further south. Beautiful Mermaid Beach is close to the restaurant precinct at Broadbeach, shops at Surfers Paradise, markets at Carrara Markets as well as challenging golf courses like Emerald Lakes.

BURLEIGH HEADS offers the fabulous Burleigh Heads National Park with great scenery and a range of wildlife, as well as more great Gold Coast beaches. Visit David Fleay’s Wildlife Park too. Gaze upon striking coastline views from Burleigh Heads and picnic or BBQ in the beautiful, tree-lined, beachside parks or visit one of the splendid local restaurants and take in the Art and Craft Markets. Take a walking trail along the coastline and enjoy the views, fresh air and cool sea breeze. Motels and Apartments offer accommodation.