My Gold Coast-Brisbane Trip Part 3

The 7th Day

Hiang Qian suggested us to go to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary-the oldest koala sanctuary in Australia. Honestly, I felt bored when I was told that it was actually something like wildlife park because I had visited the wildlife park in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and now Brisbane!! Aih.. i had met kangaroos, tasmanian devils, wombats and of course koalas for a thousand times!!! (Don't beat me because of this, I am not showing off!! I am seriously tired of seeing them..)

BUT, something interesting happened. I actually saw koalas hopping from one tree to another. I never saw koalas that were this active before!! (They were usually sleeping or staying still on the tree eating the leaves) Therefore, this was not a bad experience after all.

We were having our dinner at Three Monkey with Hiang Qian's housemates-Yen Ling and Chia Yee.

Three Monkeys-hear, see and speak no evil.

The 8th day

We rent an Estima to fit 7 of us for these 2 days. We were now heading for Sunshine Coast!!!

Sunshine Coast

Then we went to Noosa Head. On the halfway, we stopped for the Ginger Bread Factory but everything was closed since it was already 5pm :(

Never mind, we could still take a picture with ginger bread man.

Noosa Head in the evening.

Talking and eating ice-cream on the beach.

After dinner, we had a thrilling decision - we would not go back tonight, we would sleep in the car!! wohoo!!! But should we just park our car on the beach and sleep inside the car at Noosa Head? Or should we go somewhere else?? We then drove the car around Noosa Head for sightseeing and it was at this time that Yen Ling suggested that we may go to Byron Bay, the most easternly point in mainland Australia to watch sunrise. Such a spontaneous and romantic suggestion XD

The 9th Day

So we did. The car journey took about 4 hours and we reached there at about 2am. Thanks to Gabriel who proudly shared his "honourable" experience in highschool, so we were not bored at all during the long journey. We got down from the car at 4 something to walked to the point that was most suitable for us to enjoy the sunrise view. So what did we do from 2am to 4am??? We were actually not sleeping, we were "playing" in the car. Hahahahaha!!!

7 of us watching sunrise together, how romantic it was (despite the strong cold wind and we were all in shorts. We went to the beach the day before, remember?) Words can't really describe the beauty of nature.

After that, we went to Mount Tamborine. Energetic har?? We all were actually sleeping all the way up Mount Tamborine. Pity Gabriel who drove us there but later we were told that he was actually "memancing ikan" when he was driving. At first, we planned to visit "Skywalk aka walking among the tropical trees" on Mount Tamborine. However, the whole car of people were actually sleeping outside the entrance of Skywalk for 2 hours. Everyone was just too tired and reluctant to get down of the car. Wahahaha.. We didn't visit Skywalk in the end although we already reached its carpark (ridiculous??) So later we had a walk in one of the town on Mount Tanborine (can't really remember its name). We bought chocolate, ate ice-cream and visited cheese factory there.

And finally, we were going back to Brisbane!! (I was excited because we can have a shower finally!!) We also visited Queensland University which is x9999999999999 times bigger than UniSA on our way home.

The 10th Day

6am flight going back to Adelaide.

* Thanks to Hiang Qian, Yen Ling and Chia Yee!!! You all are damn nice people. I ♥ you!!