Day 3: Gold Coast - Famous for fun (Tangalooma Resort)
Third day in Gold Coast, 14 October 2012
We were heading to Tangalooma Resort for a night stay. Our coach came to fetch us at around 8 plus and we headed to Holt Street Wharf for our ferry to Tangalooma Resort. It was about an hour plus journey to Holt Street Wharf cause it is located at Brisbane.
It surprised us to see many tourists heading to Tangalooma Resort too. Briefly introduce Tangalooma: Tangalooma Resort is a natural attraction and the unspoiled beauty of Moreton Island, together with the resort’s superior facilities, offers a complete leisure experience. (Information from: www.tangalooma.com)
It took us quite a while for us to settle the procedure before we could get our boarding passes.


As for our luggage, we only brought one hand carry each cause we left our luggages in the hotel. It is not necessary to bring your luggage along cause it is just 2D1N stay. While we were waiting for our turn to board the ferry…






Girl’s Power! *Wink*


Lastly a group photo before we board the ferry.

Our boarding tickets.

Time to board!


The ferry was not full at all. Plenty of seats. Found a good seat but was surrounded by all the mainlanders! -_________- The tour guide was shouting here and there! Mood spoilt! For the past two days, we did not see any mainlanders at all, thought we could escape…
Boyfriend and I decided to went out to take a look…


The weather was amazingly beautiful. Shivering while taking these pictures. Haha!



It was around 75 minutes of ferry ride to Moreton Island. Just like going to Batam from Singapore. Hehe! Managed to catch some sleep cause we were really tired. Woke up too early. Haha!
Woke up by some noise caused by the mainlanders. Sigh! We were not sure what exactly happened, but they started to take out their cameras and keep looking out of the windows. We then realized we were about to reach Tangalooma Resort. They kept shouting saying that they saw dolphins. One shout, everyone started to shout. =( But we did not get to see it anyway.
Reaching soon!






After settled down, we checked in our rooms and had a really rushed brunch! One of our colleagues said that the food in Tangalooma Island are expensive and she suggested us to buy cup noodles instead. So previous night when we were Woolworths-ing, we got ourselves really lots of food (As if we were going for days!). Haha!
Forgotten to take the picture of our room. So decided to grab them from online.

Tangalooma Resorts has more than 80 tours and activities. Due to the lack of time, we decided to head for Desert Safari Tour.



Can’t stop taking pictures. Haha! The background is so fake right? Lol.


The guide quickly did some teaching and demonstrating Sand Tobogganing that we will be doing. SO EXCITED


For the first round, it was not bad. Hody toppled herself halfway, Yinjie literally “ate” and buried herself in the sands (HAHA!), Boyfriend and I were lucky, we did it quite nicely. The speed is really fast. It can be up to 40km per hour! Wow!
After that, we decided to go for another round cause Yinjie wanted to do it again. What really discourages us was the climbing! Really FOL. My legs can really break while climbing up. But boyfriend was very “zai”, he actually carried the wooden board for me. HAHA! I need not have to carry the board but I am really suffering. P.l.e.a.s.e.k.i.l.l.m.e! Lol.
For the second round, everyone was good! But we managed to catch the tactic to land ourselves far and nicely. No more eating of sands! HAHA! It took us 15 minutes to climb up but less than 1 minute to come down. FOL!
After that, our photo taking again. HEHE!





Sand Tobogganing is really an exciting sport. A great experience for us. Just that our energy was totally drained off after climbing up the hill. Lol.
Then we went for resort inspections (Only for us) Haha! There are lots of room type. Family Suites Room and etc. Australians are able to come here for a short holiday. *ENVY*

Beautiful beach


While walking along the beach… Perfect scenery! *Deeply in love*


While waiting for dolphin feeding session…

Okay. I drifted away. Finally it started. It was so hard to capture a nice picture of them! They moved too fast! We were told not to switch on our flash lights. Be kind to them. =) These were what I have captured. Better than nothing yah?




I did a recording when the event has started. Actually this video was for my niece and nephew. I have been updating my whereabouts. They knew that actually I were heading for my feeding the dolphin. So I took some pictures and video for them to see what was actually going on. Haha!
Finally it is our turn to feed them. Here is their dinner!

When it comes to feed the dolphins, be prepared to get a little wet! It required us to walk into waist-deep water. The water is freezing! Boyfriend kept laughing at one guy who was shivering. Cause the way he shivered was kind of funny. Those very exaggerating kind. =.= Bad uh?
Okay, here we were. I am kind of nervous actually. I wanted to take picture yet I want to have a closer look. Those images turned out to be kind of blurry. Cause they moved very fast. The member of the Dolphin Care will guide us the steps to feed them.


This is the picture that the photographer took for us and we bought it! Hehe!

After dolphin feeding, we went back to hotel for our dinner. Before that we managed to take away some fried chicken and french fries to go along with our cup noodles again. Lol. To be honest, even though it was only our third day in Gold Coast, we were so tired and stick of french fries! Yet, the fried chicken comes along with them. *PULL HAIRS*

And there were the photos that we got for sand tobogganing! I think beside food and transport, the next most that we spent were actually photographs. Lol.







Morning from Tangalooma Resort.

Outfit of the day. With my thick jacket of course! Lol. If not I will freezed to death. Lol.

While waiting for our ferry back to Brisbane – Gold Coast.


And for the rest of the day, guess where we went? Stay tuned ^^
Want to know more about how Tangalooma Island come about?
Visit http://www.tangalooma.com/info/dolphin_feeding/history/ for more details!
Click to see the rest of the days.
Day 1: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Dreamworld)
Day 2: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Movieworld)
Day 3: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Tangalooma Resort)
Day 4: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Skypoint and HarbourTown)
Day 5: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Hotair Balloon)
Day 5: Gold Coast - Famous for Fun (Jetboating and Whale Cruising
Seems like a fun and adventurous trip.
Yup. It is :)
hi i came across ur blog and this place seems very interesting.i would like to ask how did you arrange for the coach to pick u up at the place you are staying?
Hello Xinrui,
We contacted the agency to pick us up at our hotel and then proceed to take the ferry terminal. :) Hope it help!