Yes, yes, I am aware that I mixed a couple languages in the title, but hey, isn’t that what English is all about!??!?

So let’s see… After a long stint at work, I was given the chance to go down the mountain to Brisbane yesterday! Huzzah for that, mang! So I wound up staying with my friend Tane (pronounced “tah-nay:” it’s Maori) in Logan, which is a suburb of Brisbane. We got in after dark Thursday afternoon, so we just went to his place and enjoyed a few beers. Today, on the other hand, was quite action-packed.

First off, we went on a big long walk through Daisy Hill State Forest which, incidentally, is Australia’s largest koala sanctuary. While there, I got to see my first wild koala. QUITE cute, I must say. Did you know that they sleep 20 hours per day? Also, did you know that there is only specie of them? I didn’t either. Oh, and they roar. Well, more appropriately, they bellow. Check it out.

After that we went up to Mount Coot-Tha and overlooked Brisbane as the sun set. On the way back down the mountain, I spotted a feathertail glider. I felt quite privileged, considering that Tane hadn’t seen one in about 6 years or more, and he’s a guide.

So yeah, I head back to O’Reilly’s tomorrow for more fun in the rainforest. However, before I go, a quick funny story!

So I have already talked about strangler figs, and if you haven’t read that post, click here. Now that you know about strangler figs, may I continue? Thanks. Once upon a few days ago, I was leading a group of British tourists on a tour, and I took a moment to point out that there was a lily growing on an epiphytic fern which was growing on a strangler fig which, in turn, was growing on a host. Essentially, it was a hemiphyte on an epiphyte on a parasite on a host. I explained this to my pommie guests, and the dad (ever the quintessential British guy) shook his head in disgust and scoffed, in high British fashion, that the whole situation “was thoroughly immoral.” Immoral. I nearly burst out laughing right in his face.

Oh well. Poor pohms.

Okay everyone! I’m off to bed now! Cheers!