Some photos from Australia that I liked are available here: http://gallery.pfink.ca/keyword/abridged These photos can also be seen further in the post by clicking on the more link. All the pictures from my Australia trip can be found here: http://gallery.pfink.ca/Travel/Australia-2009 I have also added a link on the right hand side of my blog that goes to all my photos that I have put up so far. ...
Today is my last full day in Australia and tomorrow I make my long trip back to Canada. Maroochydore was nice. Got in a couple beach days and then back to Brisbane for some exploring of the city and seeing some museum, sciencentre and art gallery. I hope to add some posts with photos and more details about my days in Australia.
Today I went to the lone pine koala sanctuary and saw some of the shows and presentations they did and also hugged a koala and got some pictures of that. Also touched some kangaroos and a snake. Yesterday was the Australia Zoo which was quite good too and touched a koala bum and petted some kangaroos. The crocodiles are quite neat and they have lots of them. Tomorrow I am leaving for Maroochydore....
Made it to Brisbane and my hostel. Basically took as long to get to my hostel with the shuttle bus as the flight took but all is well. Tomorrow is Australia Zoo day so I will be taking lots of new photos. 4 Blackhawk helicopters were circling around downtown today, I guess they are doing practice for something for a couple weeks.
I just got back to Cairns after a few days in the Daintree Rainforest. It is pretty neat. I stayed at a hostel called Crocodylus. In that part there is no electricity unless you have a generator which was run at the hostel during the day. One of the neatest thing I did was a night walk through the rain forest with a guide and he would point out animals, trees and history and such....
I made it to Cairns and got a ride to my hostel by some Aussie businessmen that I was sitting next to. I went to the great barrier reef to three different sites and snorkeled there. It was fun but I didn’t take any pictures of it. I didn’t really like my hostel so I switched ones today and spent a lot of money doing nothing. I set up some tours one is a day tour to kurunda and the other is a 2 night one with daintree stuff....
So I made it to Sydney smoothly and will be leaving for Cairns tomorrow. Just a quick post to update what I have done: Taronga Zoo, Sydney Aquarium, walk around the harbour and see the harbour bridge and opera house. Went to manly and bondi beaches. Burnt my self a little today where I couldn;t reach on my back, doh! Will update with more details later.