Noosa N.P., Queensland, AU

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The start of a business trip/vacation in Queensland.  We flew to Brisbane (Brissy) rented a car and drove north about an hour and a half to Coolum Beach.  Stayed at the Hyatt Regency resort which was very nice, and while Bill attended his meetings, I drove to Noosa National Park, only 20 minutes away.  Almost immediately I spotted this little koala in a tree, and although he was initially asleep, when I returned from my walk he was awake and I could have reached out and touched him, he was so low in the tree.   Since they sleep about 22 hours a day, it's unusual to find them awake.

In the rainforest, lots of the trees are wrapped up in vines, and look like a tree inside of a tree, like this one.

Saw this big goanna climbing a tree.  Some are dark gray like this one but others are covered with yellow polka-dots, that start out small on the head and then get larger towards the rear, ending up in stripes on the tail.  This is a pic of the coastline in Noosa N.P.