Burleigh Heads - Miami Beach
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Burleigh Heads and Miami Beach is located south of Brisbane and right in between Coolangatta and Southport, Burleigh Heads is one of the few places on the Gold Coast where the visitor can experience what the stunning coastline was like before high-rise development and the millions of tourists took over. It has been preserved like this mostly because of the terrain around the Tallebudgera Creek estuary where a National Park has been declared on the headland.
The beaches at Burleigh Heads are lined with beautiful parkland, with picnic and BBQ areas for its visitors to enjoy. There is also a lot of local cuisine in one of the beachfront cafés or restaurants that you can enjoy on your holiday, great art and craft market are also very popular with tourists. Burleigh Beach is also well known as a fine surfing venue and, as such, it hosts major international surfing tournaments.
Tallebudgera creek is a popular spot for kayaking and boating. The adjacent beach is known as Tallebudgera Beach which continues as south as Pacific Beach then Palm Beach, ending at the mouth of Currumbin Creek. This area is well known for its gentle surf and its rock pools. It has no real foreshore but there are two surf lifesaving clubs so it is quite safe to swim here with palm Beach has won cleanest beach awards on more than one occasion.
Tallebudgera Creek estuary is small 27.6-hectare national park and is actually an isolated extension of a huge volcano which was centred at Mount Warning 22 million years ago. Despite the development that has gone on around it, the park has managed to preserve a small portion of coastal rainforest and heathlands, incorporating such flora as mangroves, eucalypts, and pandanus and faunal species such as reptiles, wallabies, bandicoot, koalas, bush turkeys and other birds, though some of these species are nocturnal and elusive. There is a short, well-maintained, 2.8-km ocean-view circuit which offers superb views of the coast from Turngum Lookout, as well as a 1.2-km rainforest circuit.
