K is for KOALA, KOALA, KOALA 🐨 (lots of videos!)

Finally the day has come. It's Koala day 🐨

I started the day with breakfast in the hotel and a trip around the corner to Hillsong Brisbane City. This campus is an old movie theatre. It was good to worship God with a few hundred (?) others. The music was so loud 🤣 two keyboards, drums, 3 guitars and four singers. Good mix of songs I knew and modern songs that had such obvious chord progressions I could sing them without ever hearing them before 👍🏼😁.  The sermon was from the Sydney Hills campus, being sent across Australia this Sunday. 

I then made my way across the river for the coach to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. 

I took 235 photos/videos - I have edited these down 😅

I saw Koalas, Kangaroos, Platypus, Echidna, Tasmanian Devil, and a Quokka. 

Koalas

What do Koalas do? 

They sleep...

They Eat

What's better than one Koala eating? 

Three Koalas eating. 

They also jump!

Kangaroos (and Wallabies)

You could feed them and pet them (though I let them be as I did not feel the need). 

Tree Kangaroo

Platypus

The platypuses were in a dark room and one was sleeping. But, I did manage to get a few seconds of video - slowed down. 

See the little white eye lids? 

Echidna

I almost missed the Echidna as I was looking for Wombats. 

The little pink blur in the photos is it's tongue! The video is clearer

Look at him amble!

Tasmanian Devil

Quokka

When I first found the Quokka (Quincy) he was having a nap, which was cute.

But when I went back later he was up and about. 

Then he heard his keeper and hopped over!

Some other bits and bobs

Dingo

Salt water crocodile

Me and my new little friend (Piney)

All in all a really lovely day! 

 

J is for Jaunty

So, I'm failing fairly terribly at the finding a word of the right letter that describes the day 'game'. However on this occasion co-pilot helped me out. 

The day started with moving from the apartment I stayed in last night to the hotel I booked through work. Bonus 1: happened to turn up as the same time as others from Bristol/Cardiff. Bonus 2: we could check-in when we arrived (around 10:30am). Bonus 3: I got a room on the waterfront. 

We went out and found a iced latte around the corner in this garden hidden in the middle of the block. 

Next door to the Hillsong City campus - which turns out to be 190m from my hotel!

This afternoon I went up to Mt Coot-tha for a view across Brisbane. 

This is the ~ 160° view.

This is looking South (ish) 

Moving towards the East

And this is the central business district 

This is a bit closer in. My hotel and conference are around the big wheel. 

Following this I popped into the Botanical Gardens for a few hours. It was very vibrant and bright!

I particularly enjoyed the cacti. 

This one is an Eurphorbia ingens

I also met a few creatures ... This is a slightly fuzzy photo of a bushturkey. 

This is a water dragon (front and back)

Some bees

And... trigger warning for spiders!

A Golden Orb-Weaving Spider (female) surrounded by little red spiders (males) 

I got back to the hotel in time to catch the last of the light. 

Tomorrow is day 11 of my trip and letter K and we all know what K stands for...

            ... Koala day! 

                            Koala day! 

                                           Koala day!