Brisbane in a Nutshell

Ok I'm about three months behind on this blog thing so drastic actions has to be taken. I'm gonna be rushing my Brisbane post. In a nut shell i spent three weeks ish catching up with family, sleep,my suitcase and being reunited with the sun. For some reason Perth didn't seem to want to show me much of it.

Where did those sunnies go?

Time for mass? Nah!

My aunty and uncle live 17 stops (yes i counted) outside of the city. The house has this decking which other looks an abandoned gold course, the view is amazing. And they get some many tropical birds just flying up onto the decking and posing for pictures. One of the cockatoos 'Rocky' even fed straight from my hand. He didm't seem very happy about it though and he constantly had one of his eyes on e just incas i made some sudden movements.

They d have some different wildlife here. The cockatoos often wake my aunty and uncle up at 4 am if their bird seed has run out and if that doesn't work they are quite happy to get onto the deck and attach anything that has been left outside, usually the mosquito coils or the feed in tuber wear boxes.

These bird will share with NO ONE

Cockatoo

Some little creature

A Toad

A friendly Iguana

An Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the water spout

Golf Course View

Moghill Ferry

Now since being in Australia i have been the but of a few practice jokes around wildlife. I did get told about the 6 foot Tasmanian Devils which exist, yo know the ones that stand on their back two legs and spin around a little. I then got told about these different breed of koala bears, called 'Drop Bears.' These are an evil version of Koala Bears and they only live in New South Wales, apparently they 'drop' onto people from high tress and then kill them. So when in New South Wales its very important to be aware of the drop bears.

A Drop Bear

Ok so those 2 creatures above aren't rally real. Their are Tasmanian Devils but they are only small, and the drop bear is a figment of some sick blokes imagination. But having believed in these two descriptions when someone told me about these 'Bush Turkey's' who build huge mounds as a nest, i thought they were pulling my leg. 45 minutes into the conversation and 3 or 4 different people telling me about them i started to think, ok maybe these things are real, I've still to see one though.

A Real Tasmanian Devil, NOT 6ft

So my time quickly passed here, what with beach visits and failed job attempts. Well except for that one job i got offered, selling christmas reindeer antlers and flashy badges. I went to the interview because i though that as the add described the role as 'Santa's Little Helper' i was expecting that i would be an elf in a grotto putting up with winging little kids, sorry beautiful little children quint nicely to see Father Christmas; i was wrong. It turns out the role was to see these Antlers and badges for charity and I would get 10% of my total sales, and when one of the guys stated that some of our top sellers were selling over a hundred doors worth of antlers a day, i decided that the role probably wasn't for me. Christmas came and went and we even fired water rockets into the sky. I loved it, the kids loved it and even the adults did, but i still have no idea how it works!

Bush Turkey

Still it was time for my journey to continue. I had train tickets booked to get to Sydney in time for the New Year and then i was off to Canberra and Melbourne and a general intention to ride as many trains as possible in a three month period. Writing this in hindsight i didn't use half as many trains as i expected but thats probably a good thing because there was quite a lot of flood to come in the next few weeks.