Gold Coast Sights

  1. Burleigh Heads National Park

    The Burleigh Heads National Park is a small but diverse forest reserve with several graded walking trails around the rocky headland. The natural rock slides and water cascades at the Currumbin Rock Pools are wonderful in the summer months.

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  2. Currumbin Rock Pools

    The natural rock slides and water cascades at the Currumbin Rock Pools, within the Burleigh Heads National Park, are wonderful fun in the summer months.

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  3. David Fleay Wildlife Park

    Opened by the doctor who first succeeded in breeding platypuses, the David Fleay Wildlife Park is an important breeding centre for the duck-billed creatures. It's also home to many other native Australian animals and places a strong emphasis on education and conservation.

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  4. Federation Walk

    The ocean side of the spit, which extends north from Main Beach, is home to uncrowded beaches and excellent surf. From here you can see across the channel to South Stradbroke Island and it's a popular fishing spot. A fig tree opposite the entrance to Seaworld marks the start of the Federation Walk, a pretty 3.7km trail that winds its way through patches of littoral rainforest and down to the Gold Coast Oceanway.

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  5. Springbrook National Park

    Springbrook national park is perched atop a 900m (2952ft) high plateau, which, like the rest of the McPherson Range, is a remnant of the huge volcano that once centred on Mt Warning in NSW. The park's vegetation is cool-temperate rainforest and eucalypt forest, with gorges, cliffs, forests and waterfalls, numerous walking tracks and several picnic areas.

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