Hot up your creative burn at HOTA. It looks like a triffid, or a shell. Or the skeleton of a leaf and anything that sparks the imagination of your soul. Home of the Arts has made Surfers Paradise the cultural precinct with its live music and theatre, comedy, dance, and opera, kids shows, and local, national and international cinema and artists.
And a farmer’s market as well.
So that’s it. No need to go anywhere else. Artfully sixty-second your heart out, experiencing people experiencing the art of the arts. Say something awakening in your Instagram post that’s more thanking than wanking, and more thought than distort because we’re really all very bored with that. So don’t waste your bus fare if you’re completely unable to post truly inspired content in an environment that has it all, and with surrounding parklands. If there’s not a sense of the new in you, being open in this open space of accessible humanness, check your pulse and cut down on something.
Tarte Bakery & Cafe at Burleigh Heads will have you walk out feeling burlier than you did when you arrived. Eat in or take home, and you know you’ll do both. It’s cruel to describe the astoundingly delicious creations of an experienced artist when the only experience can be online so you can torture yourself without any responsibility or encouragement from me.
Ditto Tweed Heads’ Baked At Ancora.
And you can always give The Milkman’s Daughter a go. “Eat consciously, Live Consciously” … by catering very, very well for vegans and vegetarians.
The Gold Coast boasts tens upon tens of fantastic cafes. Wherever you find yourself will be a very post-worthy café, dish or food related setting. If that’s your social media gig, you’re in paradise here. No spoonfeeding necessary. >boom<>tish!<
From Coolangatta to Southport, the Gold Coast is apty named. There is a consistency of coastal beauty, a marine-centric lifestyle, and a load of convivial Queenslanders. Everything is instantly Instagramable and TikTokious.
The names are enough. Rainbow Beach. Could be abounding with brumby unicorn. Find out or make it true on your Insta feed.
‘Eloise The Brumby Unicorn of Rainbow Beach’ has viral legs which is not something you think anyone would really want, but this is the world we live in now where things that once meant just one thing now mean entirely something else and with a corresponding emoji.
Snapper Rock Sea Baths has been standing squarely since 1956 when Jack Evans built it, with an adjacent shark pool because it’s Queensland. Later that year local fisherman, the Boyd brothers, caught two bottlenose dolphins and put them in the pool for the ‘Jack Evans Porpoise Pool Show’. In the next world, dolphins will be running the ‘Jack Evans Boyd Brothers Perpetual Performance Pool.’
Instagram that for viral traction. We’ll talk royalties.
TikTok Tellebudgera Creek, a stunning stamp of nature under the traditional ownership of the Tulgigin. With its literal translation of “fish good” you can get yourself a nice feed of bream, dusky flathead, mangrove red snapper or trevally. Or go straight to end user at Tally Valley Seafood.
“The Sign” in Cavill Ave is a sunset must for iconic imagery that somehow instantly transports us to a different decade.
Litereally elevate your social media standing at SkyPoint. Absolutely stunningly breathtaking 360-degree views of golden beaches, a city skyline, and the lush green hinterland that is all wealth of the Gold Coast before the other kind started the ruination of everything that makes us want to live there.
Of course there’s always Movie World. Different to the one our head and unlike the Hotel California in that we can eventually leave after videoing the endlessly filmed and videod.
You cannot not go to Cock Rock and you cannot not TikTok from Cock Rock. Careful when you google it. Make sure you put ‘Burleigh Heads’ – and be careful with that too.
Adventure out, adventure on. You have 57 kilometres of discovery to publish. Make it good, make it interesting and followers will follow, and likes will leap. Be respectful. Always leave it as you found it, and in a better state if that’s what it needs. Be part of the end of end users just using.
Insta that.
