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sabato, 25 agosto 2007
11th July – Steve Irwin Park/3

And these are the last pictures from the park.


LIZARD


CROCODILE


DINGOES
Further than those you have seen, there were many more, like wombats, snakes, and so on... including the Tasmanian devil which was always running so fast to get it in a good picture!
The minivan caught us some minutes before 5PM to bring everyone back in Brisbane.
Just the time to drop-off from it and to get my baggage in the hostel and I was ready to go to the airport to fly back to Sydney. Everything was TRULY coming to the end.

Postato da: DexterH46 a 11:26 | link | commenti
holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

venerdì, 24 agosto 2007
11th July – Steve Irwin Park/2

I go on with my collection of pictures from the park.
In the second of this list you can also see Steve with one of “his” crocodiles! ;-)


KOALA


STEVE AND A CROCODILE


ME AND SOME CATTLE (WHICH ONE?). AUTOMATIC PIC!


CAMEL

Postato da: DexterH46 a 22:04 | link | commenti
holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

11th July – Steve Irwin Park/1

The last day in Brisbane hasn’t been spent by me in Brisbane actually.
Before leaving from Italy I promised to some friends that I would have gone to the Steve Irwin Park. And I did. A promise, once again, is a promise for me. For those who don’t know him, Steve was the legendary man who became popular for his time spent in preventing some species (especially crocodiles) from being hunted until they would have disappeared. Unluckily he died while he was shooting a documentary about the marine life, hit by a stingray spine in his chest.
I took the crock-connection bus to the park, and started my visit. Since it’s wuite hard to give the description of every single moment there, I put here some pictures so you can choose your favourite animal and, next time, go to the Steve Irwin Park in case you are in Australia. It’s roughly 70/80kms north of Brisbane, a very short distance in this country.


TIGER


ECHIDNA


KANGAROOS


TORTOISE

Postato da: DexterH46 a 11:02 | link | commenti
holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

giovedì, 23 agosto 2007
10th July – Second day in Brisvegas

For the second day we decided together that I would have gone around alone in the morning and early afternoon, then Connie would have picked up later on to go out together with the same friends of the day before, and it was not a bad idea since we had a lot of fun the previous night.
The first thing I visited was the Nepalese Pagoda in Southbank.


Then I crossed the river and walked on the other side.
One of the buildings I met was the Casino building. Then a few steps further, the Former Treasury Building.

After a visit to the QUT – Queensland University of Technology – where I asked some information to see whether or not I would have in case had some opportunities to come back to Brisbane I went to the near Botanic Gardens.
In that day and a half in Brisbane I thought I just ended in an unlucky situation in Sydney, and that being those 900 kms up north would have probably been much different, so I thought about a second chance in OZ.
In the Botanic Gardens there were not as many flowers and plants as in the Sydney Botanic Gardens, but it still was a cute green place, next to the river, in opposition to the concrete of the city.

Then I went back home, passing next to the Brisbane River taking a picture at the sunset.

It was dinner time, so the group gathered again. This time we went to a Chinese place where we could take the food from the carriages of a toy train that was passing at regular intervals next to our table.

Then we headed to The Valley, where we entered into a pub. The group, formed by me, Connie, Owen (an Aussie guy from Darwin) and Lara (the German girl) had a lot of fun this night as well.
The previous one, when Owen went to the toilet for a while, we gave him a prank with Lara’s mobile. When he came back he was sure it was either me or Lara (only Connie knew the three of us), but we were so good in proving we were not guilty.
And on the second night, when I went to the desk with Owen to order some beers, we put even more confusion in him since I left my mobile with the girls and they called him with a new number. My number. But I was with him! And we joked talking about two girls who were sit in a table next to ours, then talking about other old people hanging around in the pub and so on. Funny night, as the one before. Unfortunately it was also the last one. On the way back I gave Connie my “friendship mug” as a present, and said goodbye to the others, with the hope of seeing them again. Meeting Connie in Nottingham had really been awesome, I had been very lucky and I am proud of having such a friend!

Postato da: DexterH46 a 11:06 | link | commenti
holiday, brisbane

lunedì, 20 agosto 2007
9th July – Welcome to Brisbane!

I arrived in Brisbane after fourteen hours spent on a train, I think I slept for just two of them. It was something like 6.30AM when we got into Roma Street (Transit) Station.


I ate something because I was starving, then I went to the first hostel on my sight to get a bed to sleep in the following two nights. I went to TinBilly. Nice place, very clean... but I wouldn’t suggest you to go there. I had to pay extra money for the storage room the last day, the internet was NOT free, and so on.
Then, at around 10AM, Connie came and picked me up from the hostel!
Everything looked incredible... we met in Nottingham, we said each other “goodbye” two years earlier, knowing anyway that it would have been very hard to meet again, but we did. This made me happy and smiling again.
We had a late breakfast in a tiny place not very far from the river. I suddenly noticed a “crazy” thing: they even had a pizza called “Valentino Rossi”! I could not leave the place without taking a picture of it!

Then we went back to the car and Connie drove us to the lookout from which is possible to have a great view of the city and everything that is around it, from the Gold Coast south of Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast north of the city.


The day went on with a visit of a park in the afternoon and then a visit to an art museum where we could find some colourful works of an artist, as well as other works made either by aboriginal people or other artists.
Then Connie brought me back in the hostel, where I met my roommate, an Austrian boy who was leaving the country the day before me, and who had been an exchange student in Hobart, Tasmania.
When it was dinner time Connie came again to the hostel, then we picked up two more friends and all together went to a Thai restaurant where we chatted a lot, joked and, of course, enjoyed the food!

Postato da: DexterH46 a 09:36 | link | commenti
holiday, brisbane, journey/flight