28.04.2014 - Brisbane

Natascha was awesome and took a day off and so I got a personal tour of Brisbane. Even so it was raining
from time to time we hopped on a boat and did the Brisbane-River-Cruise. I always like doing boat tours,
especially when just being somewhere for a short time, cause it gives you a unique perspective of a city and
you also get some information about the city you wouldn't get by just walking through it.
After the boat cruise we headed for the city centre cause I needed an Australian SIM-Card and we also wanted
to go up the city hall watchtower. It was a lovely view from up there and the small museum in the city hall was
nice as well. We then got something to eat in a food court and drove to the Koala sanctuary afterwards.

Well Koalas are really lazy and relaxed animals, in fact they hardly moved at all but managed to look cute even
in the most ridiculous positions. The sanctuary was basically a small zoo with almost every native Australian
animal. There were Dingos, Cassowary, Flying Foxes, Opossums, Emus and of course Kangaroos and two
Platypus!
We walked into the Kangaroo corral flanked by to Emus, weird feeling walking right next to these huge birds. At
the far end of the corral were at least 20-30 Kangaroos lying around or eating. You could go up close and feed
them. They were not shy at all and seemed to be really friendly and cute ... as long as you feed them. Natascha
was holding a bit back with the feeding and so that Kangaroo was really demanding. I on the other hand
seemed to manage better and all those little buddies I feed were happy.

We ended the day with some yummy sushi and went to bed early.