Gold Coast Day 6, 7 : Chills and thrills

When you have 7-Day Passes for Movie World, Sea World and Wet n Wild Water parks, you try to revisit them to get your money's worth. We did it too. The water at Wet n Wild is heated I understand, but what happens when you get out of the ride, dripping wet on a winter day? I ventured not, the sporty types of the family did, and came back bravely in an hour's time, but with teeth chattering...so we had a lunch of the usual veggie burgers, fries and drink, and headed back to Movie World, for a repeat of our favourite rides and for some final shopping, a Batman towel, a Batman water-bottle, a Tweety towel and a huge black Movie World umbrella.

A Wet n Wild ride

I tried this one

This wet ride looks safer

After the experience with the whales in a tiny vessel, I was rid of all fear of riding the waves in tiny boats, and enjoyed every bit of the Extreme Jet boating. The wind ripped through our hair as we zipped through the water close to 80 kmph,  suddenly applying the brakes to add to the thrill...It was over in a half hour though, so we headed to Surfer's Paradise beach, salt in our hair and water on our shoes. 

        En route, the sets of Pirates of the Carribean...!!!

Can't see me but I am on this Extreme Jet boat, honest...

It was still daylight, we had Idlis at an Indian restaurant there, and strolled along the now familiar shopping street with Cotton-On, Lovisa and other popular shops. There is an array of kiosks selling rare and even strange merchandise closer to the beach. Trinkets, bags, crystal ware apart, there were shops selling sludge, crocodile leather bags (genuine?), head wrap, reptile shows, nameplates, and then some more... The kids got a pack or two of erasable sketch pens, some sludge and other such knick-knacks.

There was an Elvis whose singing I narrowly missed. There was this man painted in silver, seemingly sitting on nothing all day, not moving an inch. The moment my coin clinked in his bowl he shook hands and posed for a photo. That was his livelihood. 

Do you know his trick of sitting on nothing? Think I do...