One Month Later

A month ago was my last post! How can that be? Knowing that Bill and Alexis are posting photos and providing commentary has made me lazy. Sorry about that. There is always something new or funny to share or a thought I'm just dying to pass along. 

For example, how about attending this conference held two weeks ago in Brisbane? You wonder if they would serve coffee; and would they allow extra breaks between speakers, or perhaps no breaks, to see how effective their suggestions were.

Sorry about the potty humor, here's a cute photo of a little kid feeding kangaroos. 

He was obviously a seasoned pro because while we were in awe of being in the same enclosure and up-close-look-can-we-actually-pet-them!!! he would walk around with his little bag of kangaroo kibble, wake up the dozing 'roos by tapping them somewhere on the face without even looking at them and proceed to get them to eat out of his hand, only to race over to the next one and the next one.

Yes, the everyday wildlife here in the cities and in the country is all so exotic to us. You've seen Alexis' pictures of the Kookaburra, the colorful-necked turkey, lorikeets and the long-billed bird we'd see walking around Brisbane. Well, here are some local town bats, flying foxes to be more precise, in the small town of Hervey Bay:

They weren't just hanging out, they were pushing each other off the branches, and flying around and squeaking and chirping. And it was daytime as you can see.

On one of our walks we saw a pod of dolphins: 

There are also some unusual plants. 

Bottle Tree

incredibly large Staghorn Fern

Vines across the hiking trails:

Fig trees you can live in:

And lastly, among the different and amazing things we are finding here in Australia, is a musical instrument; the Didjeridoo