Kookaburra Inn

... gun. We had to make it back to the Apollo depot by 3pm and still had 650ks to go. Having dropped the bags off at the Kookaburra inn we made it to our destination with about a minute to spare, we did some deals, paid some bills and walked out into ...

... novelty after spending almost 2 weeks in a small campervan and the room was upside down! We were pleased to leave the "Kookie" Kookaburra Inn as it dark and dingy and looked forward the the luxury of Brisbane City Backpackers. When we arrived we were told ...

... looked really inviting, especially after being on our feet for a good wee while.  We even saw my first up-close kookaburra but we would have to leave our exploration of the gardens to another day.  There was also the Queensland University of ...

... amazed to discover even a small supermarket stocked gluten free bread, we went in search of the Coachman's Inn. As we arrived, Terry, the owner, was feeding a kookaburra with some raw steak. Up until that time we had not realised that they are carnivorous ...

... go out for dinner, that way we could spend as much time as possible in the cabin as it was pretty special. On our way out a kookaburra landed on the balcony where the owner had put a bowl of raw meat so we hand fed her for about 20 minutes getting plenty ...

... Seattle! Caught a perfect (and rare) sunny day to head to the zoo on Saturday. Seattle Zoo has an Australian section, wallaroos, a kookaburra all on its lonesome, emus and some birds. The sun was shining and I was surrounded by animals from home had a ...

... are raised. We saw wombats, wallabies, kangaroos, cockatoos, possums (different than ours in USA), Tasmanian devils, koalas, kookaburra, and spotted quolls. The park specializes in trying to preserve the Tasmanian devil which is in serious danger of ...

... still only saw about 1/10 of the whole expo!! It was such a huge area. The Australia pavilion put on a bonza show, complete with a kookaburra cuddle and a lamington at the end!               The British pavilion had ...

... Black cockatoos Koalas Emus Kangaroos – red & grey Black wallaby Yellow footed wallaby (Quorn) Echidna Blue wren Kookaburra Little Penguin Water rat (sea) Red back spiders Red parrot thing (quite common) Magpies Red rosellas Pink gallahs ...

... like very large pigeons at one of the beaches we stopped at on the way. Ate a delicious meal accompanied by amusing kookaburra who was fed steak tenderloin to keep him away from the dining guests lunches.Back onto the little ferryboat whereupon Camilla ...

... had our packed lunch in the car park, and Mum had a huge piece of cheese taken out of her hand by a very cheeky kookaburra. After lunch we went back to our campsite after a few hours driving around Basket Swamp National Park which was close by. The ...

Another night in Brisbane. Didn't get up to anything. Stayed in a lovely hostel which had the most curious Alsation Dog. He loved being part of the action. We had a quick bite to eat around the corner that evening and had an early night. Off to Noosa ...

The last stage of our excellent value Greyhound bus pass left us in Brisbane, from where our final flight to Christchurch, New Zealand was booked. First though, we staggered our way to the hostel - not having had to walk anywhere ...

We had breakfast in the hostel, fresh fruit and trail mix purchased from Woolworth's the day before.  We also spent the morning hanging around the hostel - I read while Skippy edited pictures.  There are several other folks staying here and ...

We departed Cairns early and got into Brisbane by lunchtime.  We headed into town for lunch and and ended up eating in an Asian joint that served everything covered in brown gravy.  I referred to it as the Asian version of comfort ...

Well after an amazing time in Aortorea, the land of the long white cloud, it was time to nip across the ditch to see the wonderful wizzes in Oz. So it was Kia Ora to Kiwis, Watties and people with unfeasibly large eyes and tongues and say G'day ...

Day 109 of Andy and Suez's Great Adventure I think that we were both in shock at waking up today with no hangover, given that we had been expecting to be drinking beer all day at the cricket.  The one plus point of the tickets being in the ...

Day 108 of Andy and Suez's Great Adventure The Ashes Well, today was the day.  I think it was a day Andy had been looking forward to a wee bit more than he was letting on.  To be honest, even I was a bit excited - Australia versus England in ...

Day 107 of Andy and Suez's Great Adventure Following our walk along the river a couple of days ago we had decided that we needed to explore the City Cat a little to experience what is described by Lonely Planet as a great way to explore more of ...

Day 106 of Andy and Suez's Great Adventure We were walking a lot today again.  I read an article in a magazine earlier in the holiday and it said that people of mine and Andy's age should be getting at least half an hour of exercise 4 or 5 times a ...