Sea World – Gold Coast

Australia’s Favourite Marine Park – Sea World

Sea World

What would a trip to the Gold coast be without a visit to the famous Gold coast theme parks.

Gold Coast is Australia’s home of theme parks, with 6 Major theme parks to choose from.

Movie World, Sea World, Wet n Wild and the lesser known Paradise Country, all part of Village Roadshow, and just a little further down the road sits both dreamworld and White water  world run by Ardent Leisure who also runs Skypoint, AMF and Kingpin bowling as well as other leisure businesses.

So whether you are after a thrill ride, water rides, animals or getting up close and personal with your favourite superheroes. The Gold Coast has something for you.

Sea World was started back in 1973 by Keith Williams he found the name Sea World wasn’t registered in Australia and decided it was the perfect name for his marine attraction.

Sea World in Australia has a large emphasis on rescuing marine Life. It contributes over $1 Million a year to fund the rescue, research and rehabilitation of marine life they have staff on call 24 hours a day, eery day of the year to help ‘rescue’ marine animals.

We took our 4 children aged between 2-10 years to Sea world and their was enough to keep all of them amused.

Nickelodeon Land

(Pre-schoolers) (Primary School)
With 6 different rides for children to choose that will keep kids aged about 2-12 excited. It is the perfect place for your children to explore. It now has its own recently opened kid sized mini rollercoaster. Nickelodeon Land has 3 main themes.

  • Dora
  • TMNT
  • Sponge Bob

Creatures of the Deep

(Pre-schoolers) (Primary School)

Your children can take a journey to see the mysterious creatures of the Deep.

Featuring Large moving / Interactive exhibits that showcase a mixture of both real mysterious marine creatures to the legendary creatures like the Loch ness, Kraken and Megalodon.

The attraction is found in two locations a large building located next to the Penguin attraction and a great outdoor pathway your children can walk through and explore on your way to Nickelodeon Land.

Sea World

Sea World

Castaway Bay

(Late pre-school) (Primary School) (Secondary College)

Castaway Bay is a great Wet interactive area in Sea World that is a favourite in the warmer Queensland weather.

It has three main attractions, Battle Boats, Sky Fortress, and Sky Climb.

If you do decide to do battle on the Battle Boats you will get Wet. The Battle boats travel around a large area and their are over 80 water canons to contend with.

The other attractions are both ‘dry’ attractions but just as much fun. The Five level sky fortress will have your children climbing, crawling, going through bridges, tunnels, slides and ropes.

If your child is between 120 – 140cm they can balance 12 metres off the ground in the sky climb.

Animal Adventures

(Primary School) (Secondary College) (Adult)

What would a trip to Sea World be without an up close and personal animal encounter. Packages are available to spend time woth dolphins, sharks, polar bears penguins and seals.

Rides

Now a trip to a theme park would not be complete without a thrill ride and Sea World doesn’t disappoint whilst they may not have many 3 in total but they are all great and different to each other.

Viking Flume

(Pre School +) 

Viking revenge flume is a fun ride that always has a little bit of a wait, its a 480m floating ride which children from 95cm can ride. (With an adult) it climbs 13 metres above the ground and our children loved floating through the top of the iconic Sea World castle to then speed back down 58km per hour getting wet in the process.

Sea World

Jet Rescue

(Late Primary School +) 

This Speedy coaster sees you climb aboard a jet-ski and race incredibly quickly  (70km) pulling 2.5G’s in the process round the track to save the Sea Lion.

There are a couple of tables nearby for those not tall 125cm tall, (or brave) enough to participate.

Storm Coaster

(Late Primary School +) 

My favorite ride on the Gold Coast the storm coaster is a great mix of rollercoaster, themed waiting area, water (you get very wet), and great views of the Gold Coast and the park itself.

If you are over 110cm I strongly recommend that you have a ride on it. The Storm coaster is themed to the effect that you are trying to evacuate from a category 5 tropical cyclone at a shipping port. There is debris everywhere from upturned shipping containers broken TV’s, upturned boats, cars everywhere.

The ride itself is 470 metres long and stands 28 m tall. It has a top speed of 70kms and a great splashdown at the end where you get very wet.

Sea World

 

 

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