A video compiled from a couple of early sessions at Alex Headland. Mostly getting to grips with the new board and spot. Apologies for the atrocious drop-in on a longboarder at 1:22!
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Noosa and Underwater World
Noosa and Underwater World
So on Tuesday 21st October, we went on a mission to see some Koalas. After 7 weeks here, we still haven't seen any! Last time we were in Australia, we found a couple up at Noosa, which is a world-famous surf spot and all round beautiful place with an amazing national park. Noosa is only a short bus ride away from us, so we went up there on a Koala search. Unfortunately, this tme around, we did not see any Koalas despite trekking 5 miles through dense Eucalyptus forest. However, we did have a great time in an amazing place.
One of Noosa's secluded beaches with a nice point break
One of Noosa's point breaks being surfed. Wish I had taken my board!
Some skilled surfers in a dangerous, rocky break
Perfect wave after perfect wave
National Park trails. We walked from the small box in the top right corner, along the blue trail, then back along the orange trail, then down through the yellow trail.
Noosa main beach
Despite not seeing Koala's, it was some small consolation to drive past a couple of kangaroos on the way back!
On the Thursday, Charlotte finally took me to her workplace and we had a good explore around Underwater World!
Clownfish living in an anemone
Toxic lionfish
Megalodon jaws (ancient giant shark) and a Charlotte
Groucho the supremely talented fur seal
The seal display
Me in the shark tunnel
Black-tip reef shark
Sawfish with one of the most hilarious faces you can find on a fish
Charlotte getting up close and personal with a giant crustacean of some sort
Me, myself and Jaws
Moon jellyfish
Monday, 13 October 2014
New Job and Moreton Bay
New Job & Moreton Bay
So we haven't added any blog updates in a while purely because the last couple of weeks or so has been myself working and Charlotte job hunting and we didn't really manage to get much adventuring done. But this week Charlotte managed to get the job that she had wanted since she had arrived. One that hadn't even been advertised.
So Charlotte is now a Visitor Information Education Officer at the local aquarium. So she's back in education, telling people all about the cool creatures that she gets to hang out with every day!
Definitely more fun than bartending...
So now we both have jobs and rotas we could arrange trips out! Now since we arrived, we'd wanted to see Dugongs, just because they are very cool and live in this part of the world. We'd heard that they lived in nearby (ish) Moreton Bay, near Bribie Island. So on Sunday, we took a 3 hour bus-train-bus journey down to Moreton Bay and hired a boat. This thing:
A proper little fishing boat, outboard motor and no license required. How much did we pay to hire this boat for 2 hours? $35. Which at the current exchange rate is £19. Honestly, in the UK you would be lucky to hire a kayak for 2 hours for that little money.
And we were put in full control of it, and yet somehow didn't manage to crash it! We went looking around the grass beds where the Dugongs are known to hang out but unfortunately they remained elusive. We will try again elsewhere but for now we still had a brilliant day and saw plenty of marine life. We found a few stingrays (which were too fast for us to film), a really alarming giant eel with a bright red fish in its mouth, and thousands upon thousands of these:
We also came across this bizarre thing on the shore. We are both Biologists and we have NO IDEA what it was. None of the locals knew either. Whatever it was, it was disgusting:
That's it for now. We will update with any more interesting events ASAP! :)
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