BRISBANE - AUSTRALIA -
Tours taken - March 2024
Springbrook National Park, Tamborine Rainforest, Natural Bridge and Glow Worm Cave Tour
Our first tour in Australia was the one we took with our great guide Tanya. She drove us South to Springbrook National Park and various other attractions and warnings...
Strangling Fig - The plant that creeps up around a much larger trunk and kills it!
Natural Bridge [click title for short video]
Advancetown Lake and lunch at Beechmont Hotel
Walking in Tamborine Rain Forest and the outlook
North Tamborine - a quaint village full of cafés and shops
Robert Sowter Park and fantastic views
My niece Deniz and I we took a ferry to Stradbroke Island, and then a bus to the ocean side and the beautiful beaches.
Respect for ancestral lands and an effort to minimize tourism. To stop a whale centre development on the island. A valiant effort but... [below- center]
Another day we took a ferry trip up the Brisbane River to the Koala Sanctuary.
View from the boat
The limit of Asli's 'close encounter' with animals!
In addition to Koalas...
...we visited a variety of reptiles, including an estuarine crocodile basking in the sun.
An emu that liked Stephan's company and a couple of kangaroos that did not want to have anything to do with visitors.
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A lazy hog and a lazy dingo, and another dingo that didn't look friendly at all!
