Q1's silver tower above Surfers Paradise, the Pacific running turquoise, a longboarder dropping into a clean blue wall while a dozen others sit out the back. Gold Coast on a good morning is unembarrassed about being the Gold Coast. Single past 50 here means a Mermaid Beach apartment with a long beautiful Sunday inside it. However you got here, the weather is generous and the company is the missing piece.
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Winter is the civilised half of the Gold Coast year and the first-meet calendar follows. Burleigh Heads National Park for a headland walk and the cafés along Goodwin Terrace, the Broadwater Parklands at Southport for a flat-paced morning, the Surfers Paradise beachfront if the weather's calm. Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary covers a longer afternoon, and a coffee in Mermaid Beach handles the quieter version.