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Monday, 17 January 2005 - Day One
Here are a few miscellaneous shots of my getting settled in Brisbane.

  
My humble abode - 177 Hale Street. 60 seconds to Suncorp Stadium, two minutes to bars and restaurants round the corner, and a 15-minute walk to the city centre (and my work).
  
My room (pretty bare at the time).
 
 
Spacious kitchen - good for when we all decide we want to cook at the same time.
  
Big deck out the back for a few 'quiet' ones.

 
 
My new beast!
  
First day of work.
 
Stole my flatmate's hat.

Brisbane's skyline, as seen from Mount Coot-tha.

Again from Mount Coot-tha, looking southeast (the CBD is on the left).

Saturday, 26 March 2005 - Noosa (Sunshine Coast) and Fraser Island

  
Fraser Island is located just off the Sunshine Coast, and is the largest sand island in the world at 124kms long.
  
I don't think there are any sealed roads - just sand and gravel.
 
 
Lake McKenzie - a massive fresh water lake somewhere in the middle of the island.
 
It was cold ;)
 
 
Pretty :)
 
Lots of dingos scavenging for anything at all to eat.
 
 
Another massive storm rolling in, nice!
 
Morag got lippy ;)
 
 
Stayed the night in Noosa. Nice sky!
 
Noosa Beach.

Saturday, 30 April 2005 - Our new pet

  
He's a lot bigger than he looks here!
 
I don't think we'll name him ;)

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 - To Sydney!

  
Off to Sydney with work for a few days. Sydney's a bloody madhouse compared to Brisbane. Nice place though (at least from what I got to see of it).
  

Tuesday, 10 May 2005 - Driving skills

  
This guy wiped his bus along two parked cars and pushed the second right up the arse of a third hahaha - good shot! This happened on the street directly behind my work, and I happened to come out for lunch just seconds later. Being the nosey guy I am I said to the driver, "Oh gee what happened mate?!" He reckons there were people standing in the middle of the road and he got squeezed in, but I didn't see anyone hehe! By the way, I was nice enough to bang his headlight back in.
  
I didn't have much luck banging this guy's taillight back in though ;)

Thursday, 19 May 2005 - Hail storm!

  
A severe and unexpected hail storm smashed Brisbane up during the evening rush hour tonight. The large marble-sized stones caused some pretty hefty damage around the city, and the weather bureau got scolded for giving no official warnings.
  
This only took around five minutes to accumulate - it was bloody heavy hail! Mo got caught in the first 60 seconds of it on her way home from work - I thoroughly enjoyed watching her run up the street towards our house from the lounge window hehe ;)
 
 
Several cars got stuck in the hail-turned-slush. I was nice enough to push about five or six of it. One driver I pushed out said he'd bring round some beers for my help, but he never did (he was driving a Mercedes so no wonder).
 
 
The hail (and the rain that followed) was so heavy that our kitchen roof leaked like a sieve!
 
...and the floor isn't shiny becuase it's been polished!

Saturday, 21 May 2005 - Manly
Random trip out to Manly today (not to be confused with the Sydney suburb of Manly), a seaside suburb about 16kms east of the city.

Saturday, 28 May 2005

The chick with the large arse driving the green Beatle turned into the path of the oncoming white Prelude while making a right-hand turn (or trying to) at a set of traffic lights. The intersection itself is flat, whereas the road the Prelude was coming from heads steeply uphill as it approaches the intersection, so for the Beatle the view of oncoming traffic is a little obscured, and this is the result...

And get this, the driver of the Prelude turned out to be a good mate of Craig's, our newest flatmate who moved in over four months after this accident. Craig saw this site and said, "Hey that was my mate's car!". Small world!

  
 
Oh my beautiful, beautiful Prelude!
 
 
Bugger!
  
I later heard she tried telling the insurance company she merely tripped and landed arse-first on her door ;)

Saturday, 4 June 2005 - Oh yeah, right there, right there!

  
I took the bike on the train out to Ipswich today, almost a small town in itself about 40kms south west of Brisbane. There's a free miniature wildlife sanctuary there - very cool. This guy was loving this. Every time I stopped he would let out this cute little whimper which made you feel bad and scratch him some more - he had it down to an art!
  
This guy said it all, "Hello", "Hello Cocky", "Mum, look at that", etc. I discovered the best way to make him talk was to stroke his neck for a bit and then stop. He'd talk and talk until you started stroking him again. When I walked away he really went off - all I could hear for the next 50 metres was "HELLO!", "HELLO!", "HELLO COCKY!", "MUM, LOOK AT THAT!", "HELLO!!!" hehe.
 
 
The dingos just wanted food...
 
... and so did the roos.
 
 
The emus had drums cut in half that the sanctuary workers would fill with food for them. Problem is that as soon that the sanctuary workers walked off, about a million pigeons would swarm on the drums before the emus could even get close. I did have a picture of one emu that was really perturbed about the pigeons eating its food and rapidly paced back and forth, and occasionally pecked at the pigeons with no luck, but it seems to have disappeared.
The wombats just wanted to sleep.
 

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