Flying home.

We flew to Melbourne from the Gold Coast airport. We flew Jetstar, and were very happy with the service. We had good smooth flights both ways.

I have been very reluctant to use Qantas any more. They have had a poor safety record in my view, often having flights diverted due to malfunctioning planes. But Jetstar, although being part of Qantas doesn't seem to have had these problems.

The view from the Gold Coast airport is fabulous. As we took off we were right above Tweed Heads. This city is the boundary between Queensland and New South Wales. You can stand on the boundary line, one foot in each state.

This is our daughter from Melbourne standing on the dividing line in Tweed Heads. NSW and QLD are the abbreviations for New South Wales and Queensland.

Here are a few views of Tweed Heads. Like so many of the Australian cities, they straddle a river, and in many cases the rivers have been highly developed with many areas for fishing and boating.

From this map you can see how much water there is around the river mouth.

The breakwater is clearly visible here, and these are lovely beaches have many hotels built around them. Like the Gold Coast, and this is really the very southern end of the Gold Coast, this is still very much a tourist area.

The view of the Gold Coast airport shows Tweed Heads close by. The quality of this picture is not so good.

With both our flights we had lovely views right over the Tweed area.  Aussie is certainly a beautiful country.