Ceri

You are joking aren't you.. manly.. where's the beach in Manly, it has a rock wall, a harbour and a very small patch of sand running along the front, and also behind the Yacht club - which they have blocked off.

Redcliffe ..lol that has a small beaches.. I wouldn't call them beaches myself, very shallow. gravely and sand

Try Gower not swansea ..lol

Tell me where are the rocks, or hoards of people in this pic (you'll notice it is hight of summer by the way, I'm in shorts and have a bit of a tan.. so it's not winter when there are less people on a beach).. if I didn't tell anyone this was in Gower, I could lie and tell them.. look it's Aus, not a person on the beach.

Get real. Brisbane itself is very ugly. Do you want me to take a photo next time I'm down Luggage point of the real Brisbane river?

Cheers

Kiwipaul

The point I'm trying to make is that the beaches around Brisbane are mediocre at best but if say the Redcliffe beach (south towards the point where they have put the new promanade) was in the Uk it would be a MAJOR tourist attraction in UK in the summer.

My example of Swansea beach is comparable too the Brisbane beaches and the Gower is comparable to the GC or SC beaches. Except here we have sunshine 365 days a year and the water temp is always about 20C or above. The UK has some fantastic scenery, but it dosn't have the weather to do it justice IMHO.

Their are some great places in the UK to visit, but no one in their right mind would go to the Uk for a BEACH holiday.

As for Brisbane being ugly it's no worse than say Swansea or Cardiff and it's def not a dirty slum like a few places I've seen in the UK.

Ceri

Do you want to join "Aus has Sun, beaches and big 'ouses" party or what? lol we have sun

Personally I agree with you about Cardiff.. it is a slum. Not a lot of other welsh people in Wales (non cardiff people) like Cardiff. I wouldn't live in places like London, and I cerainly wouldn't live in Cardiff either.

Cheers

dotty

Sun 365, come on Paul, we get sub tropical rain quite often, sure not as often as Sun but when it rains it belts down, our creek goes up 5 foot in 10 minutes, the water coming over the waterfally sounds like thunder. Now I love that type of rain, so I am not knocking it, but hell its not Sun 365 tho.


'Sexing up OZ' award of the day to Paul

Dont get all stroppy now just trying to inject some fun into this dull old site

Kiwipaul

But you cannot deny that Aus does have Sun, beaches and Big "ouses" (seem to recall that even you have one) so whats wrong with that.

Ah so you are admitting that their is a corner of Wales (Cardiff), that you would not defend to the death, and take on all comers for casting a slurr on your beloved homeland.

Kiwipaul

Not sexing anything up, just telling it like it is, if you don't like sunshine every day don't come to QLD.
Seems you have forgotten the recent drought, when it didn't rain at ALL for at least 12 months (or did I imagine that), and also when it rains it really buckets it down, but generally it only lasts an hour or so and then sun comes back out.

I think you would be hard pressed to recall a day when the sun didn't shine at all (mind you last couple of weekends have been a bit overcast at times) in all the years you have been here.

Ceri

You'd be hard pushed to find someone from Swansea and Gower who likes Cardiff... cardiff should be in England somewhere .. Caer... diff , that's the accent some of the locals have there... two syllables. People from the Swansea area think Swansea should be the real capital of Wales.. lol... no love lost between cardiff and swansea people.

Cheers
BO party ... sun, sun and more sun

Ceri

He's the Axis of Evil!

cheers

P.S .. I think he's actually Howard Jones myself "I won't let the sun go down on me"..

dotty

You have lost the plot, I have seen rain here for 3 weeks on end. Often. Whats the annual rainfall???? No rain em.

Do you have shares in QLD Tourism?????????

'Sexing up OZ award twice in one day'

Kath

We visited Cairns recently for a week, for 3 days we had rain like I've never seen, it was relentless, non stop, no break, soggy, humid..... We were told that it could rain like that week after week, hence the rain forest !!!

jayr

I remember last summer (when we arrived) and had lots of 'nice' hot sunny weather (I know it was mild compared to previous year) then just as we were passing the 'honeymoon' period it rained solidly for three weeks with overcast grey skies and temps still in mid to high twenties. How depressing it was going to work in the morning with grey skies, umbrella up and still sweating.

Kiwipaul

Never said it didn't rain, but I've been here 3 years now and I've never yet seen it rain continuously for more than a couple of hours but then that day it dropped about 12 inches in a few hours and we had floods everywhere.

Worst floods I've seen were about 2 years ago when the Clarence river burst it's banks and flooded 1,000 kms of land in northern NSW, and cut all roads south. Wasn't in QLD at the time but was trying to drive back from Sydney and roads were in chaos.
I don't apologise for liking sunshine and beaches, if you prefer the cold and wet thats fine by me.

Be a very boring world ifwe all liked the same thing:scared: :scared:

Kath

Is Brisbane classed as tropical or sub-tropical?

dotty

Only Sub tropical.

Winter is not humid at all, lovely time, worst bits are Nov to March.

brisnick

Yeah, but that's Tropical North Queensland for you. What did you expect (though strangely enough it's the DRY right now)? Probably some strange end of El Niño beginning of La Niña effect!!!!

Well, when I first arrived in Brisvegas, I had almost 17 months without daytime rain, plenty of evening storms that lasted for a few hours, but nothing during the day. It has been pretty wet since March tho, with a period of almost 3 days of straight rain (okay, I kid, more like almost 3 weeks)!!!

brisnick