The next few days I just spend in Brisbane. Queen street is a bit like Strøjet, typical shopping street and quite nice and lively. Toowong is pretty central, 15 minutes is all it takes to get to the city centre. I have run out of earplugs, or at least I have run out of the good kind. I have these cheap once now that take ages to put it and break super fast. I end up getting some fancy looking once, five pairs in a box for 15 bucks. Let's see if they are any good.
Come time to leave Michael has taken the day off and rides with me to show me some nice scenic routes across the mountains. We cross both mount Coot-tha and mount Glorious. It is a bit of a detour but very beautiful view, and fun rode to drive. He goes with me all the way to the Australian Zoo in Beerwah. We say our goodbyes and he is off. Ok let's see what this zoo can offer.
Immediately I like this zoo because it has nice big enclosures and it looks clean and well maintained. I naturally go hunting with my trusty camera, and despite it being very difficult to get good shots of crocs without a fence in the way, I manage to get a few pictures of the other animals. I tend to stick to those I haven't seen here in Australia before at another zoo. Mostly anyways.
One enclosure in the African section
small note, the tree next to this bamboo is about four meters tall.
Oh hello there mate
Yeah, I don't know
This is my I-will-eat-your-face face
After spending a good four hours in this fantastic looking zoo I get back on the bike and head north. I don't know where to, but something called Rainbow Beach on my map seems interesting, I might just check that out.
It's a little detour east of the highway, and as I get down there I see there are signs that if you wish to camp in the forest area you need a permit. The office where I can get such a permit is closed though, I'm here too late. I find a caravan park instead and pay a whopping 32 bucks for a night. What? That is too much, but then again this does seem to be the best caravan park I have been to so far, so maybe it's not so bad. Very big area, clean and tidy. I put my tent up in the dark, my new tent that is. I forgot to mention this but in the caravan park I stayed at before Brisbane, one of the tent poles broke in two places. I got a new tent in Brisbane and this is my first time putting it up. I use a head lamp and get started. It's very easy and fast. I stretch my back and look up and then I see it; Stars, so many stars. There is very little light pollution from the park making the sky, that by the way is clear of clouds and moon, quite a spectacular sight. I just stand there for a few minutes until my neck hurts. Right, food time. There is quite a racket coming from the kitchen area. I get my cooking gear and head over there.
Transformers dude
The place is packed with young people, early twenties they look like, and one guy in particular seems to be in charge in the food project they got going on. I noticed him soon because of the tattoos he has on his back upper arms, one Autobots and one Decepticons logo. I get his attention by saying out loud "Nice ink man, couldn't decide?". "Yeah you know, better both than none" he replies. And that's all it took, before I know it they invite me over to their camp for some beers, and I don't pass on an unpopularity like that. I did bring my laptop to the kitchen hoping to do some blog writing while eating, but blog has to wait, free beer and company awaits.
Some of these guys are musicians, some study foreign politics and interesting debates catch light over the fire they have going. At one point my phone gets a message, it's from back home, people want to know if I burned in the fires. Coincidentally they sound my phone makes when it gets a message is the Autobots sound when they transform, you can imagine who was impressed. They pass around a tequila and they all seem like they are drinking gasoline It lands with me and I have a sip. This is good so I have another sip. Really good. I pass it on and notice they just stare at me. "Jesus you just drank that like it was water, not one facial expression". That made me laugh out loud and for the next while we talk about Vikings, snaps and other strangely unrelated things. I need to get to bed so I say thank you and goodnight. 32 bucks is too much for a camp-site but I ended up having a really good time so perhaps it all evens out. I don't know, too tired, goodnight.
Some of these guys are musicians, some study foreign politics and interesting debates catch light over the fire they have going. At one point my phone gets a message, it's from back home, people want to know if I burned in the fires. Coincidentally they sound my phone makes when it gets a message is the Autobots sound when they transform, you can imagine who was impressed. They pass around a tequila and they all seem like they are drinking gasoline It lands with me and I have a sip. This is good so I have another sip. Really good. I pass it on and notice they just stare at me. "Jesus you just drank that like it was water, not one facial expression". That made me laugh out loud and for the next while we talk about Vikings, snaps and other strangely unrelated things. I need to get to bed so I say thank you and goodnight. 32 bucks is too much for a camp-site but I ended up having a really good time so perhaps it all evens out. I don't know, too tired, goodnight.
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