Garie Beach

Is Australia REALLY that much better looking, feeling, and like a paradise ?

specifically manly beach.. or the golden coast.. are the pictures overrated ? could there be somewhere similar or better found within the US ? thanks :)

Public Comments

1. no thats New Zealand
2. The pictures are genuine but there are many, many better beaches in Australia than those two. I'm happy for Manly and the Gold Coast to be the most famous so that the really good places are left for Australians and tourists who like to get off the beaten track. I haven't seen or heard of any better beaches in the US though I guess it's possible that you have some hidden away. The US has many fantastic and beautiful places and the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls (shared with Canada and tourist tacky but still magnificent), New England in Fall, Washington State, the Rockies, NYC and many other places are just as good and sometimes better than anything we have in Australia. It must be said though, that the combination of our great climate, our beautiful natural environment, our relaxed lifestyle and the equality of opportunity here make Australia a paradise for even very ordinary working people. The US is beautiful and exciting and rich (well, it used to be), but it's not a paradise for vast numbers of its people.
3. The Caribbean, there are some beautiful out of the way beaches in Florida, especially gulf coast. I find Atlantic beaches to be quite blah though. Some beautiful beaches in Fiji and Okinawa too. I'm a beach junkie and travel all over to see great beaches :)
4. The gold coast is WAY overrated, but then my grandparents used to own a beachfront property up north with a waterfall, silver sands and crystal clear water and if you swam out a bit from shore there was some really pretty coral reef, so I'm kinda spoilt on the beach department, I compare them all to the beach I spent my childhood on!
5. Australia has many great places, that are heaven-like. Few countries are like that.
6. Unmatched, ya batch ya life on it. The best country in the world. And I know exactly what I say. Take it from the lucky bitchoo who's been around the world twice.
7. There are hundreds of beaches, white sand, blue oceans, some oceans are green. You have to be here to live it. The pictures don't lie.