Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
I have arrived safely in Australia. I've mostly just been hanging out in Brisbane with friends, catching up. I took a quick trip up to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to visit my friend Shane's family property. It has a beautiful patch of rain forest and a bit of pasture land on it. We saw heaps of nice plants, beautiful orchids, black moths with orange polka dots doing complex mating dances, and a very very big spider on our rain forest walk. This was all punctuated by us getting caught out in a pretty epic storm which dumped hail the size of golf balls on our heads. Ouch!
I spent last weekend on Stradebroke Island with Nicole and Tim who I've been staying with in Brisbane. It was restful and fun. I got to catch up with Ian - our professor from when I went to Uni there 6 years ago. He is great smiling fun. Also to reacquainted with the soldier crabs and oysters that live on the beach across from the island's marine lab. The surf on Stradie was pretty big out at vista point - we definitely didn't get in.
Ive spent all this week traveling down the coast from Sydney to the southern border of New South Wales seeing national parks with exceptional beaches and mountain forests in the great dividing range. We had stellar wildlife viewing with good sightings of gray kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, parrots, and two echidnas!!!
Limpets
Echidna
Goana (this guy was about 1.5 meters long)
Galahs (a type of cockatoo)
Wombat
Lyre Bird (sorry the photo is not that good it was about 20 meters down in a deep dark hole)
Grey Kangaroo
Missing you!
2 comments:
Hey there, you crazy tidepooler you.
Just wanted to say hi.
It's nice to hear you've made it to down under in one piece.
...you do realize however it's safe for you to go back to the states now, Obama won ;)
P.S. Wombat's are awesome
Hi Cara! Great pictures! It sounds like you are having a great time. I am jealous of all of your travels. Continue to enjoy your adventure and safe travels to PNG.
Michelle
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