Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
07-5539 0222;
www.aquaduck.com.au
; 36 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise; adult/child/family $35/26/95;
1hr
tour every 75min 10am-5.30pm)
Check out Surfers by land and water in a boat with wheels.
Festivals & Events
Big Day Out
(
www.bigdayout.com
)
Huge international music festival in late January.
MUSIC
Tropfest
(
www.tropfest.com/au/surfers-paradise
)
The big-gest short film festival in the world hits screens in
Surfers Paradise in February.
FILM
SURFING
Quicksilver Pro Surfing Competition
(
www.aspworldtour.com
)
The world's best surfers hit the waves in mid-March in the first comp
of the annual world tour.
Surfers Paradise Festival
(
www.surfersparadisefestival.com
)
Food, wine and live music for four weeks in April.
FOOD, ARTS
Gold Coast Film Festival
(
www.gcfilmfestival.com
)
Mainstream and left-of-centre flicks from all over the world on out-
door screens. In April.
FILM
Gold Coast Marathon
(
www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au
)
Sweaty people running a really long way. In July.
MARATHON
Gold Coast 600
(
www.surfersparadise.v8supercars.com.au
)
For three days in October the streets of Surfers are trans-
formed into a temporary race circuit for high-speed V8 Supercars.
MOTORSPORTS
