LonePineKoalaSanctury@Australia-Day3

Date: 18 July 2011, Mon
Weather: 23'C,16'C,9'C (max,mean,min)

Route:
Breakfast@Sunnybank -> Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary -> Maleny [Glass House Mt lookout - Mary Cairncross Park - McCarthys lookout - Howells Knob lookout - Gardner's falls - Balmoral lookout - Gerrards lookout] -> Montville -> Flaxton -> Mapleton -> Numbour



Morning view from Jenny's house

9am... would like to look for Dimm Sum restaurant...but we can't find it... follow the GPS... and it bring us here... OK, never mind... Hong Kong style breakfast at Sunnybank, Sunnybank Oriental... breakfast set... we knew that it might has a large portion, so we just ordered 3 sets and just cost us AUD29.80

~10am, arrived Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary - is the World's first and largest koala sanctuary and rated one of the 'Top 10 zoos in the worls" by AOL. Entrance fee: 32 per person. (Expensive!)

10:30am, Lorikeet feeding. They provide the birds with a healthy meal of oats, cereals, vitamins and minerals to supplement their natural diet.

Left top - wombat.
11:15am - Koala presentation. Actually just giving some intriduction of Koala by the staff. Not a show. Alfonso buy me a photo capture with hugging the Koala... this cost AUD25 :)
1st time hug the koala.. in order to do this, I must follow the intruction given by the staff... how to hug and how to stand... so I can't have my own pose :S

Kangaroo! We can buy the food from counter and feed them. They are free move and poeple easy to reach them. They do not afraid of the people... maybe already get use to it... you touch them... no big response from them... that's why we can easily get a picture with them :)

12:15noon, Sheep Dog Show. See, Alfonso love the dog very much!
Left bottom: Wild pig?

Sheep Shearing Show

~1pm, lunch at their Cafe. Burger AUD10, Fish&chips AUD9.50, Mocha AUD4.50

Top: car plate number, BANANA2... funny.
After out lunch at around 2pm... we go to visit other places.

On the way go to Glass House Mt

Disappointed... is the a Glass House Mt? Doubt~
Well, we go for Info Center and ask for any interesting places or not. This the route they recommend us.

1st - Mary Cairncross Park (view point)


2nd, McCarthys

3rd, Howells Knob... not in the map that highlighted... luckily Alfonso wanted to come here... nice view.

Scene from Howells Knob

4th, Gardner's falls. Can't see the fall... or can say is a very 'small' fall... nothing there actually.

5th Balmoral lookout
6th Gerrards lookout
Just a scenery... nothing much there. Sky is getting dark... just around 5pm.

Get a Petrol 1st... in order to let us continue our journey...
we passed by the small town Montville -> Flaxton -> Mapleton and come to Numbour town which slightly bigger town to look for our dinner. Less car, less people... most of the shop already closed... it feel like we are in the 'ghost town'... a bit scary. Yup, we found it... Thai Restaurant.

Thai Connextion Restaurant@Nambour... AUD65.20. Very nice... hot and spicy food under cold weather... :)
We would like to go to toilet... the boss passed us a key and asked us go up to get a toilet upstair where the stair case is next next to her shop. That is the property office's toilet.

************** out skirt ~ the end ***************