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! :)