Brisbane

We had caught the bus to Brisbane and booked into a hostel and first things first we had to go look for a pub that was showing the Liverpool champions match...

Brisbane is fairly small so navigating it was pretty and soon enough as always we found an irish pub that advertised the match starting coverage at 3am in the morning and you had to be in before then as it was a lockin..so we headed home for a kip and set our alarms for 12am and then headed back to the bar and got there for 1am - very strange as that is normally when i start suffering from concrete head syndrome and need to go home... or dance more! When we arrived in the place was packed with liverpool supporters and i even met some belfast lads from the lisburn road at home!!
Half time was even better as they handed out bacon butties for all... so at about 8am in the morning we eventually made it back to our beds and the body clock was then thoroughly screwed up...

We only had 2 days in Brisbane but that afternoon instead of shopping or drinking we headed out to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary to get up close and personal with some of Australia's wildlife...

The sanctuary was class and just the ticket for a hangover as you spent the day walking around amongst the kangaroos, crocs, koala's etc feeding them...
You got a bag of food for a dollar and away you went feeding whomeever you wanted to get near to..it was well cool and the animals were so tame.

We then got to have the photo opportunity with the koala - ours was called Crumpet and she was cool bit heavy though and needed to lay off the aul eucalyptus for a while mind!

We decided to round the day off with dinner and drinks in Brisbane's casino, but as soon as we got there we were told we couldnt get in! flip flops and shorts etc not allowed - i think it was just the backpacker thing and they probably thought we were going to steal the loo roll from their toilets! (not far wrong!!) haha
So we ended up at the trusty old golden arches!

The following morning we were headed for Syndey for 5 days and to meet up with some old pals...