Traveling with Ray Owens

Our flight from Auckland, New Zealand to Brisbane, Australia was quite nice. I rewatched a movie. City of Angels with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage. Very touching movie.

We arrived and took a taxi to our hotel which wasn’t ready yet but they stored our luggage while we ate lunch at a pancake place that was in an old church building. It was an interesting place with good pancakes, ok eggs and not so great sausage.

After lunch we took an Uber to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. Turns out they provide sanctuary for many other Australian animals as well.

We bought entry tickets and special time to get up close and personal with a koala. We had about an hour to wait for our koala time slot. We decided to walk around the sanctuary. It is pretty large and the place has a maze of paths and gates and dead ends. It was hot and void of staff. What happened was that we were lost trying to get back to the koala starting place. We almost died! We finally made it back with a minute to spare. We did get in line to be with the koala and the line moved slowly. Penny was able to get some water and we were very refreshed by getting to pet the koala. It was a great, really great, experience. We then sat in the koala kingdom. An open area with picnic tables and trees full of eucalyptus leaves with cute koalas in abundance. We also had visitor who walked in or flew in. See the pictures.

We then got an Uber back to our hotel. And I went to a grocery store very nearby to purchase some dinner foods. We are staying in Adina apartment. We have kitchen stuff and a washing machine and dryer. Penny has been doing laundry while I went shopping for food.

Tomorrow we start our island cruise.