On Saturday Becca and I went to Stradbroke Island. We got the vehicle ferry there, which was really cheap there and back for walk on passengers. It was a slow trip but pretty. We arrived in at Dunwich and looked around while waiting for the bus, there were a lot of birds-seagulls, pelicans, sun birds, fluffy super-sized sparrows and swallows flying around the jetty. The island had a lot of trees and the bus drove through areas that looked like we were in the outback-not what we expected. We got off at the last stop Point Lookout, it had a boardwalk wrapping around along the edge of the cliffs overlooking the ocean and beaches. The water was an amazing colour, all different tones of blue and turquoise. The photos don't really capture the colour fully. Even though there were a lot of people there it didn't feel at all crowded. The place was also completely dog friendly and many people had their dogs with them. Hmmm still don't think we could take our three monsters. There were lots of little areas to get down to beaches-we only explored a few…ones that had the least amount of stairs. The weather was lovely, it was clear and sunny but stayed cool all day so we could enjoy the sunshine, and the squeaky sand. On one of the beaches I noticed something blue just as I was stepping down and hurt this POP! I discovered it was a bluebottle jelly fish-just as well we'd decided to keep our shoes on. There were a lot of them washed up on the beach glowing in the sun, I couldn't resist taking photos. We didn't think we’d have enough time to explore the other area the bus went so went back to Dunwich. We had a bit of a wait until the vehicle ferry came in so went to explore a sand flat. We pretty much had the whole area to ourselves, save the occasional fisherman and the seagulls and pelicans….and the thousands and thousands of crabs. It was funny on the ferry trip over to the island I’d been telling Becca my favourite beach was one I’d gone to with Nana on the way up to Port Douglas, which was a sand flat and had these pretty bright blue crabs. And what did Becca spot on this sand flat-bright blue crabs. A LOT of them! Solider crabs, which Becca later read are named that because they are one of the few crabs to walk forwards instead of sideways-we didn't even notice that when we were looking at them. Even having spent nearly an hour looking at them. Even having attempted to sneak up on them sideways ourselves, trying to get close enough to photograph. They disappeared so quickly when approached, spiralling down under the sand. I may have been a teeny bit obsessed with them. The photos don't really show the colours properly, but they ranged from light sky blue almost white, to bright jewel blue through to purple tones. It was really mesmerising to watch them move together, they looked like a wave and you could hear the shoosh, shoosh of all their legs moving as one. Becca got a really good video of them where you can hear the noise. We then walked back around along the water and went to look around the jetty area-if we’d had more time I would’ve started sorting through all the shells and coral. The light was beautiful on the water on the ferry trip back. Would definitely go back there again.
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We went to the Sunshine Coast today-sure beat going to work! Shane was getting the suspension on his bike set near the Glasshouse Mountains and it was going to take several hours, so we decided to take an annual leave day and go look around while it was getting done. We went and looked at Baroon Pocket Dam-the water was so still it was like a mirror. We drove through Maleny looking for a brekky spot, but even on a weekday morning it was too hectic, so we went to Montville instead-much nicer. We went to Mooloolaba and went to Underwater World -plenty to look at-fish, seahorses, coral, wee baby turtles. The size of the Barra were very impressive. They looked like some sort of prehistoric creature. I liked the brightly colour jewel fish the best. If only they could live outside in a freshwater pond. The last photo also shows a shrimp-it was TINY, like 5c piece tiny. We weren't there in time for the seal show, but they still swam around in their tank doing backflips and being silly My favourite display was the jellyfish. They'd lit them up with changing coloured lights and the way they moved was really pretty. I could have spend hours photographing them.
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