Happy New Year still..

We haven't heard from us for a while. But we are still doing great.

We spent New Year's Eve - as I said - in Noosa with a nice fireworks at 9 p.m.. we slept through the one at midnight. 🙈😉 On New Year's Day, we spent some time at the beach in Noosa, strolled through the town a bit, did some shopping (only Nadia successfully) and enjoyed ourselves.

On 02.01., we made a stop in Mooloolaba on our way to Brisbane, where we visited SeaLife, spent some time at the beach, did some shopping (unsuccessfully).. and then landed in the early evening with Nadia's friend Jane and her husband Bossy, who warmly welcomed us, prepared delicious burgers and spent a cozy evening with us, before we slept in a "real" bed again after a long time. George allowed us that for the next two nights.

We visited Brisbane on Wednesday, 03.01., which was not really worth mentioning.. but the evening at Jane's parents', who not only have a 60,000 m2 property, on which snakes and spiders like to show up as well as kangaroos and deer, but also a small brewery, whose beers we happily tasted. We saw our first Huntsman spider.. luckily only a small one. 🙃 🙈 😳

Thursday, we were especially excited and looking forward to it, because we went to a huge water park, the WET'N'WILD on the Gold Coast, where we raced down the Black Hole together in a crazy pace on a float, where we made a loop in the slide after free-falling in AquaLoop, or experienced the ride in Tornado screaming. A great day when we ran through the park for 9 hours like little kids, eagerly trying out and experiencing the next slide. Wonderful!! In the evening, we arrived completely exhausted at the campsite and were greeted directly by a (our first seen) koala, which was hanging directly above our spot in the tree. Amazing!! The dozens of huge bats, which - no shit - had a wingspan of at least half a meter, flew almost terrifyingly around in the twilight. The sight of the koala was quite reassuring and took away our fear, at least for Flo, because he is always scared. 😉 although Batman is actually a good guy.. oh by the way, Flo almost collapsed when he saw an incredibly large spider dangling about three meters above him in the dark while Nadia was showering. 🙄 he then immediately moved the entire car within the pitch. 🤔

Since yesterday, we are in Byron Bay now, after making a short stop in Surfers Paradise and taking a look at the hustle and bustle and the beach there. It's incredibly crowded here, lots of young people, nice bars with live music, which we enjoyed yesterday with a few cocktails. Fortunately, our beach just outside Byron is not as crowded as in the center.. we played in the waves all day today.. like little kids again. A few meters away, there were five dolphins swimming calmly. Awesome!! 🤗😃👍

Tomorrow we will continue towards Sydney, where we will say goodbye to George on Monday and then explore this city for two days.