NederlandsMain Beach - Gold Coast
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Main Beach is one of the Gold Coasts wonderful open ocean beaches best for swimming, surfing, and early morning walks.
During your visit make sure you drop in to the stylish Main Beach cafés and Restaurants at Tedder Avenue where locals meet for lattes and dine at the finest eating places in main beach. There is also the historic Main Beach Bathing Pavilion to be viewed when you have some free time. Just north of Main Beach lies The Spit - which features a half-kilometer jetty and the theme park Sea World, it has also won two Queensland keep Australia clean awards.
Some of the Gold Coasts up market resort accommodations also reside here, including Palazzo Versace - the Worlds finest Versace hotel, and the Sheraton Mirage. On the first Saturday of each month popular Marina Mirage Shopping Centre holds the farmers markets. There are countless things to do in this area, go on a sunset cruise, set sail on a 84ft Ship, take up an adventure with parasailing, diving, book a tiger moth flight to see the city from the air, You can catch the amphibious Adventure Duck from the area as well.
For those that want to get in touch with nature, there's the federation walk to explore, it winds through the Littoral Rainforest which looks great anytime of the year. The gold coast city council has recently developed an Artificial Reef to stop erosion in the area, now various dive sites operate there and nearby the Scottish prince ship wreck.
If you feel like adding some exercise into your holiday take a ride on the Bikeway path that runs from popular tourist places Main Beach across the Nerang River to Anzac Park nearby to the Southport Broadwater. There are wheelchair accessible access points at Main Beach plus life saving patrols at Narrowneck and Main Beach. Accommodation in the region ranges from a tourist park with cabins, caravans and camping to self-contained apartments, units and motels.
