We are now back in Queensland and the sun is shinning! The mornings here in Brisbane have been chilly (a record low of 3.5 degrees this morning) but the temperatures are still around 22 to 25 degrees during the day. Brisbane is surprisingly nice as noone we've met has had a good word to say about it. We walked all around the city on Wednesday and saw some nice buildings and architecture. South Bank has a beach and nice places to swim but there are too many Ibis birds shitting on food tables! Minging!
Today we eventually got to go whale watching (4th time lucky!!) The tour was twice as much as the one in Byron Bay and had loads of old people. They played Elvis and Frank Sinatra music throughout most of the journey on the boat to entice the whales from the water. We sailed out around Moreton Island, which like Fraser Island, is one of the largest sand islands in the world and is only accessible with 4WD. It took us ages to see a whale and we were beginning to think we had wasted all our money. But then we eventually saw a humpback.
It didn't seem to be going anywhere in a hurry and just kept swimming close by the boat. It was really lovey and so big and because we didn't really know where it would surface it was hard for us to takes its photo. Unfortunately we didn't see any more and the glamorous Captain Kerry (the only female Captain in the South Pacific Rim) said that it was unusual for whales to travel alone which may be beacuse there are Killer Whales and Great White sharks in the area and therefore the others may have been ate. How nice.
But closer to Moreton Island the water was incredibly clear and we got to see others sea animals like funny looking jellyfish, jumping tuna, dolphins playing on the surf, stingrays swimming in big packs, hammerhead sharks and amazing great sea turtles which were so beautiful. We also got to watch episodes of Mr Bean on the return trip. So all in all it was a grand day and our faces are completely burnt beetroot!
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I've finally caught up -- I'll probably fall way behind within a few days.
Anyway, what's the trouble with the ibises (ibiss, ibisss?). If we had big exotic birds like that here everybody would be feeding them!
As for getting a beach in the Guildhall Square, we're working on it -- mainly because of all the rain that we've had in the last couple of days.
Looks like you had a whale of a time on the boat (get it?). Not impressed with the jellyfish though. Your mum and I saw more in the Swilly from the Rathmullan ferry.
Hi David/Christine, Great pictures. Did you both see the notice on the boat about weddings in 2008. Think you are both too late to do anything about it now.
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