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Surfer's Paradise

This is the TRENDIEST spot in all of the East Coast of Australia. The shopping is to DIE for -- Sophie, you'd have had a field day -- and the surfing is not bad for the tourist types. I don't think a lot of LOCAL people come here...this is a total tourist trap. There are million dollar condo's everywhere and every brand name imaginable.

You actually have likely seen (or heard) about the Gold Cost (and surfer's paradise) because of their world famous golden bikini meter maids.

Sadly, on the day we went, the temperature was around 15 degrees, and off-peak tourist season, so there were no meter maids.

ALL of these shops were in ONE MALL!

This was actually taken in Coolangatta. It's basically just like Surfer's Paradise but much less developed. Here were the best surf waves we saw the entire trip. Overall, the swell was small -- even at Bell's Beach were some of the worlds LARGEST waves are found, we were disappointed by the wave size.

Here is what you'd normally see at Bell's Beach (which is down the Great Ocean Road). Sadly, what we saw was pathetic compared to this.

posted by Team Shawn Michaels @ 7:42 p.m.