Non-Australian readers (hi Mum!) may have been a bit confused over the phrase 'schoolies' made in the comments section of the previous post. Schoolies is an Australian equivalent to Spring Break in the US where year 12 students (ie 16-18yr olds) celebrate the finish of their school days by partying en-masse in holiday get-aways like Surfers Paradise. There's no real equivalent in the UK, or at least there wasn't in my day where we basically gave a collective sigh, had a few beers, got thrown out of the Coach & Horses and blamed any next-day queasiness on the kebab we got from a van on the way home.
Schoolies is big business over here, and around 50,000 teens will descend on Surfers Paradise this week. The presence of so many drunken teenage girls attracts more than a few unsavoury males who are keen to take advantage of the situation, and these are known as 'toolies'.
Because of all this we were a bit uncertain about coming South for a week, but we hoped that Burleigh Heads was away from the main action. The hotel was a good choice and I guess you could say that the view from the living room & balcony is OK
If the sight of all that sea gets dull just look inland over the local bowls club and the town to the mountains beyond
We basically have a 270 degree view from the living room, although we do need to change seats to see it all. Life is tough.
It's hard to get out of the apartment because we can sit on the balcony and watch the world come to us. I'm an inveterate people watcher and it's the perfect position to sit and watch the surfers, joggers, skateboarders, cyclists, locals and tourists pass by below. I almost wish I'd bought binoculars, but then again that might make me considered to be a toolie.....
Schoolies is big business over here, and around 50,000 teens will descend on Surfers Paradise this week. The presence of so many drunken teenage girls attracts more than a few unsavoury males who are keen to take advantage of the situation, and these are known as 'toolies'.
Because of all this we were a bit uncertain about coming South for a week, but we hoped that Burleigh Heads was away from the main action. The hotel was a good choice and I guess you could say that the view from the living room & balcony is OK
It's hard to get out of the apartment because we can sit on the balcony and watch the world come to us. I'm an inveterate people watcher and it's the perfect position to sit and watch the surfers, joggers, skateboarders, cyclists, locals and tourists pass by below. I almost wish I'd bought binoculars, but then again that might make me considered to be a toolie.....
I know exactly where you are....
ReplyDeleteSchoolies seems to be a newish things here as well Mike. There was no such thing when I left high school. I guess it's evolved over the last 20 (?) years.
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