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Old 06-26-2008, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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300,000 aus dollars = 286,000 US dollars.
Australian dollars must be worth a little less than U.S., given this conversion.
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Old 06-26-2008, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Hey mate...

Yeah Victoria (where I live) is not the only place where the water is safe. Along the NSW and southern QLD coast the water is sage there too, although there is the odd shark attack over some years, very rare...

Victoria is the safest waters i'd say, however its cold.

The southern QLd coast for swimming is the best (Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast). THe water is nice and warm. I have swam there.

Hope i could help!
What I'm talking about is the sea itself making you sick (red algae?) or being filled with deadly jellyfish. I'm not too worried about the odd "guppy."
(old Foster's beer commercial reference. )

Are there parts of Victoria the water isn't very cold in summer?
(places where the sea is consistantly above 20 C all summer?)
I know it's a big place, spreading all the way from South Australia to NSW.

Not only do I want to swim, but I'd prefer to ride some powerful surf as well as do some diving somewhere scenic. (obviously not in the same location, neccessarily )
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Old 06-26-2008, 05:19 PM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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Port Phillip Bay and gets water temps around 24ºC in summer and Western Port bay may reach 26ºC.
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Old 06-26-2008, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Port Phillip Bay and gets water temps around 24ºC in summer and Western Port bay may reach 26ºC.
All summer, or just during hot spells?

*I don't want to plan a trip to the beach, weeks or months in advance knowing the water could be too cold.
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Old 06-26-2008, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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for most of summer, about Jan to march. If the weather happens to be crap, like constant cloud and cold temps (like we had last February), then obviously water temps will suffer aswell.
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Old 06-27-2008, 04:16 AM
 
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Hey Coldcanadian...

Where SAB said, Port Phillip Bay... Lovely temps there all Summer if there has not been weeks and weeks on end of cloud.

For the surf... Its okay down at Jan Juc near Geelong but the water temps are cold there. Best spot in AUS is on the Gold or Sunshine Coasts for it!!! Trust me on that one!!!
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Old 06-27-2008, 04:20 AM
 
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How is the American dollar equal to the Aussie dollar?
Not sure what you mean by that question, but our Australian dollar has risen and kept rising this year... Currently at this stage [SIZE=4]1 Australian dollar = 0.958 U.S. dollars[/SIZE]

Hope that helped
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Old 06-27-2008, 07:38 AM
 
Location: So. Dak.
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CC and Power, thank you for the answer to that. I was just curious how our costs of living compared so I wondered how many U.S. dollars were equal to 300,000 Aussie dollars.
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Old 06-27-2008, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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CC and Power, thank you for the answer to that. I was just curious how our costs of living compared so I wondered how many U.S. dollars were equal to 300,000 Aussie dollars.
I'd like to know too.

Likely cost of living is higher in Oz because of smaller population and being on its own continent (and far away from a lot of other large populations.

Healthcare aside, the U.S. overall has a noticeably cheaper cost of living compared to Canada, and population is part of it.

*Higher population in this case meaning higher probability of goods being made (or at least headquartered) in your home country.

The U.S. has a much lower amount of overall tax than Canada for both having a larger overall population and population density as well as having lower standards of how much governments should be providing and spending on.
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Old 06-28-2008, 12:59 AM
 
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Today was mostly cloudy with light winds. Nothing to report at all really!
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