Adventures in Brisbane
After the Whitsundays we flew back to Brisbane on April 6th where we were picked up by Liz, Eero’s second cousin-in-law, and taken to their place in Dayboro on the outskirts of Brisbane. On our 1st day in Dayboro, Rick and Liz took us and their kids, Jacob (5), Tom(3), Kate(3), and Alice(17 months), to a beach on Moreton Bay just outside of Brisbane but it was way too windy and the tide was too high to spend any time at the beach. So instead we spent some time in a nice park there, played on the jungle gym, blew bubbles with the kids and had a picnic lunch. We then stopped at the marina to get some fresh fish and mussels for supper from the fish mongers. We had a delicious salmon dinner that night.
We went to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary on the second day after we drove to the Brisbane city centre and caught the Mirimar river cruise to Lone Pine in a neighbourhood called Fig Tree Pocket. There we saw koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, emus, dingos and crocodiles. They also have special enclosure for feeding and peting the kangaroos and emus. There we got to see and hold a koala as well. Unfortunately, Eero left somewhat saddened unable to see any tasmanian devils, which they were supposed to have. Sarah also got stung by a catarpillar, but she’ll live. Unlike almost everything else here in Australia, they aren’t super poisonous but she did get a welt like a bee sting.
We had a blast in Brisbane visiting Eero’s extended family, but we we had to move on so we hopped a plane to Sydney!
