Dad down under: chilling out on the Gold Coast

As a belated Christmas pressie, I treated Dad to a few days up on the Gold Coast.
Considering that February has been the rainiest in over 20 years in Sydney, we were hoping for some better weather. And the Goldie delivered.
We opted to hang out at Broadbeach and caught up with Dad's cousin Marie and her husband Andy. They're Broadbeach experts and I am now the Broadbeach convert.
After all the whizzing around I'd made Dad do during his trip, this last Queensland jaunt was a chance to relax, swim, read and hang out at the casino (!)

We did have one minor catastrophe: the first morning we all decided to walk along the beach to Surfers for breakfast. Despite text messages from Bo warning about the crazy weather up on the SE Qld coast, we stumbled onto the beach and were virtually swept out to sea as a rogue wave cornered us inbetween a sand dune and dumped on us. We must have looked a picture, and poor Marie had to replace her phone and camera owing to excess sea water, but it couldn't dampen our spirits.
It was an excellent few days :-)