Siteseeing in Surrounding Areas (March)

Some more siteseeing photos...

Beach BBQ

The Listers invited us for a BBQ on the beach on the other side of the Broadwater. We all ran out to get way to much food and met for an afternoon in the sun and sand.

We also enjoyed a beautiful sunset. Unfortunatley once the sun dipped down the sandflies came out and Trev and I ended up with over 100 bites each that were itchy for weeks!

View from our BBQ spot

Me, Mike, and Dave
Mike's working the BBQ while the rest of us supervise

Dave, Sophie and Racheal
Sophie made a new friend

Viv - opening a beer bottle with a tree branch

Viv rescued a orphan duckling. 

Racheal

Lonepine Koala Sanctuary
It was our first day off together since we had started working and we were on our way out to Australia Zoo. We got about half way (an hour into our drive we reached Brisbane) and realized that we had forgotten our passes to the Zoo that Dave and Viv had bought us for Xmas.
Plan B became Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane. We found the Sanctuary to be a wonderful place full of a variety of animals. It felt more personal than the typical zoo with zookeepers that were truly passionate about there animals.

Wild Rainbow Lorikeets

Wild bird

Trevor giving Mr. Pig a scratch

During the 'Keepers Favorite Animals' show this keeper talks
 with us about a Possum that the sanctuary rescued 

A couple of the 130 Koala's Lone Pine has

Sitting balanced on 3 stick ends

Baby Koala

 

First time petting a Koala!

They feel sort of fluffy and wooly

 

Trev, Ralph and I

Birds of Prey show

Birds of Prey show

 

Barking Owl

 

People would come up to feed this giant Kangaroo and he
would eat from their hands without even opening his eyes.

Tasmanian Devil

 

Byron Bay
Since arriving in Australia everyone has been telling us we need to visit Byron Bay. It's a small hippy town just over an hour away that is full of all kinds of little shops, eaterys, hiking and beautiful views. The bay is also full of dolphins and turtles.
We decided to do the hike up to the lighthouse and than spend some time on the beach.

Just minutes into the hike we saw my favorite bird. A Kookaburra!

Australia's most easterly point

Almost at the top!

Lighthouse

Views from the otherside of the lighthouse

Heading back down the hill through the jungle on the otherside side of the lighthouse

Almost back at the car!

Photo I googled to showing arial view of lighthouse.

Till next time..   :)