Hello Guys!
Just want to do a quick re-cap of what went down yesterday! We decided that since the 2 night/3 day tour of Moreton became a one day tour, that we would go to the Lone Pine Koala reserve and use the refund from the tour to pay for entry. I have a good 500 pictures to upload later today by the way so keep looking at our flickr feed!
We bussed from downtown Brisbane out to lone pine, which is a beautiful reserve park, about an hour or so ride away from our hostel. The day was a little cloudy at first, but raining - YET - so we went straight to see the Koala's and Kangaroos. The Koala's are in really open and natural looking habitats where you can take excellent photos of them sleeping, scratching, and being all around adorable. Fact: Koala's are not drugged up from eating the Eucalyptus (sp) tree leaves - which is a common misconception - they are slow and lazy looking due to the lack of nutrients found in the leaves and the high fibre content which takes most of their enegery to break down. Fact 2! Koala's totally look like Ewoks from Star Wars!!!!!
We got our pictures taken with the Ewoks and took some better ones ourselves with my super camera. The picture that the sanctuary took makes me look like a petrified doll. Quite scary. Won't be posting that one online XD
They had a big a koala demonstration as well so we learned some facts and history about the little teddy bears :)
The enclosure with the kangaroos and emus was one of my favourites because we were allowed to just wander around molesting all of them as we pleased lol. Kangaroos - have big balls - totally hilarious discovery. We also found in the shops around Brisbane that they take kangaroo balls, stuff them, and sell on top of beer bottle openers and lighters...gross haha.
I left my floral print purse out in the kangaroo/emu enclosure and one of the emus decided to go investigate it. So to defend my precious and expensive camera equipment and Ipod, I walked back to it and managed to get about a food away from the emu's face. He was so big! I got some good pictures when he managed to stand stil.
The next demonstration was the birds of prey, which consited of a barking owl, a huge Australian eagle, and a barn owl. All of which were fed mice mid air, and photos were taken of all of them despite the progressed rainy and dark conditions. Heather volunteered to have the barn owl land on her arm which was wicked! Pictures of that will be up soon for sure. The other animals we witnessed were various parrots and owls, a platypus (which we got to see murder a crayfish :D), dingos, wombats, sheep, goats, chicks, and probably more that i've already forgotten.
Tonight is our last night in Brisbane before me and Heather split up for 2 weeks, myself heading to Rockhampton to live with family while the job search continues, and Heather to tour up the coast where we will meet up in Cairns at a later date. We have decided to celebrate our last night by having real people pizza for dinner!! (we previously bought some aisian pizza, which sucked, and we now need the real stuff to feel complete inside).
Time to go! Will post soon. Check back in the next day or so for photos :)
Love you Canada
xoxo Briana
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