As expected, Seaworld was also busy! Once again, as we had been before, we didn’t really have to worry too much about the queues but we did head straight to the dolphin show. It must be about the fourth time we have seen it, but it never fails to be worth watching.
We did wander around a wee bit and noted the changes, one being that that the cable car wasn’t operating and the cars were stacked off line so to speak.
The kids water area looks to be pretty good, but this is an additional charge. We did manage to use the water cannons from the fence and those riding the galleons fired back - so Dave and I also got wet!
The lake show at 1pm was nothing more than a jet ski display this time and wasn’t a patch on the earlier shows we have seen. So a little disappointing. The sea lion show was the same as it has always been – another opportunity to sit and relax in the shade.
Dave and I went on the ‘jet rescue’ high speed roller coaster (you sit astride jet ski shaped cars) and we became adopted grandads, so that a couple of under-height kids in a school holiday group could ride, as they had to be accompanied by an adult – but Dave’s charge decided that when the seat bar was strapped down, she really didn’t want to ride after all!
The old roller coaster with an upside down twist has gone and the new coaster incorporates another ride that has now gone, now called ‘Storm’. We only had to queue for 30 minutes and as usual, for a two minute ride! Pretty good though - meanwhile, Paula & Marilyn went to the ‘Sponge Bob’ 3D movie on ecology. They rated it really good – for three year olds.
We left about 4pm and as we passed the trawlers that sell proper sea prawns (as opposed to grown in a puddle in Vietnam/China) we knew that we were way too late, so we called at the fish shop on site. Very disappointing. The prawns looked terrible and were expensive, but they also sold a fair bit of NZ fish. Interesting that we pay about $12.95NZD a kg for our monkfish, in the shop, it was $29AUD a kilo and $44 a kilo cooked! No wonder Macca’s do a roaring trade.
So once again, to Woolworths at Pacific Fair instead. Now we often have a bit of a laugh driving around and today was no different. At the traffic lights on Broadbeach Rd, we turned left for Pac Fair, alongside the petrol station. There is another set of traffic lights to turn left again into the car parks. However, we swung left on the green filter - and straight into a Road Closed sign! Needless to say, three occupants of our Mitsubishi AFX were convulsed with hysterical laughter, as I had to double back through the petrol station, as doing a U turn wasn’t really on as traffic was heading out OK!
After a very nice (but small…) coffee, we bought our cooked giant prawns in Woolworths, cheaper and fresher than at the fish shop, and an avocado, some cole slaw, rolls and a 1.3kg ready to heat lasagne. Four prawns for Dave, Marilyn and myself and 2 for Paula proved to be enough, and we didn’t manage to finish off the lasagne, washed down with Magners cider and later, a quarter mango each.
Another not very late night…
Robina Mall tomorrow morning, then a lunch time catch up with cruise buddies, Ros and Arnold.
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