To Brisbane

After just a few days in Sydney we took a flight to Brisbane on Tigerair, the local super discount airline.

We're now at about the same latitude as Northern Natal. The Great Barrier Reef starts about 200 km further North.


Brisbane is home to some two-and-a-half-million people and a heck of a lot of yachts. This is where we plan to buy our boat.

This one turned out to be a lemon ....  Looked great online

This one was rather nice inside. But for various reasons it would not be practical. There's no place to sleep for starters.

After a few days of viewing boats up and down the coast we took a day off  yacht-shopping to visit a Zoo of local animals.


Kookaburra ....

Weird giant lizard ...

Lots of cute Koalas ....

 And of course a 'roo