I'll tell you about it tomorrow.: North Stradbroke Island

Razzu is here! Hip hip, hooray. Downside is that he made it in with a pretty nasty cold and slept for the first 15 hours he was here. No worries though, he'll be right. He started feeling better soon after he got here.

The day after he flew into Brisbane, we took the bus to the train to the bus to the ferry to the bus to North Stradbroke Island (seriously, it takes all of those to get there). But, only took us about two hours commuting. And it was a really great weekend of hanging out on the beaches, walking everywhere, exploring the sand dunes, dipping into the ocean, and whale/dolphin/pelican watching.

The beaches. Main beach -

Deadman's & Frenchman's beach -

Sunset over Flinders beach, close to our hostel -

And the gorge, with awesome blue/green water.

Razzu pondering the gorge at a funny angle.

Razzu's first whale sighting - from the top of the gorge. He came in to hang out for a bit, take a rest, then continued heading south.

Found the cool little crab balls at Flinders beach. We sat still around their holes until we could see them popping up to toss out their sand balls. Hard little guys to take photos of while their running in and out of their holes.

A close-up of their perfect little balls.

I think we stressed this guy out a little because his balls started to get messy instead of perfectly round. Managed to finally get a video of him though.

We found the Sand Blow! It was listed on a couple maps we saw, but not really all that obvious how to get there; kind of in the middle of nowhere. If only we had thought to bring waxed boards, would have been perfect for some sandboarding.

Here's a Razzu wannabe...or maybe its the other way around. Either way, the mo' is in!

And the cheeky little pelican, he would just hang out nonchalantly by anybody that's fishing, but as soon as they caught anything he'd be a persistent little guy, running in to steal the fish. And he was usually successful because of his acting skills...act like you're not interested and the fisherman will let down his guard. Ahhh, wise pelican.