A bit of everything

This is going to be a quick update because we're in a McDonalds in Airlie Beach catching up on emails and stuff. I'll get right to the good stuff. We saw a platypus in the wild yesterday!! We went to a campground in Cape Hillsborough on Wednesday and Thursday and met a really nice couple named Gary and Louise who lived in the area and Thursday night Gary lent us a fire drum he made out of an old washing machine drum and an old car wheel so we could have a fire. We weren't allowed to burn anything directly on the ground there. We also met their 32 year old son Colin who hung out with us at the fire. He was going to the place we were planning on going to the following day so we followed him there. We stopped off at his house and had a nice shower and his friend Sully showed up and we drove off to Eungella Dam, its pronounced YOUNG-gulla. There were supposed to be some more of their friends there but we couldn't find them and it ended up being just the four of us. We had a great time, we just drank some beer and sat around the fire, they brought a slingshot with them and we had a bit of target practice at some cans. Somehow we ended up whittling, Sully was making a spoon, Colin decided to do a fork so that left me with the knife. Yes, I carved a wooden knife with a real knife, the irony was not lost on me. We made a roast with a camp oven and had some veggies and a stuffed pepper to go with it. Pretty good night overall. Then yesterday we split paths and went back to a place called Broken River on the way back is one of the best places to view wild platypus in the country. After a few hours waiting till dusk and another our after that our patience paid off and we saw one out in the river diving down to feed and coming back up a few times.

We are only about an 8 hour drive from our final destination now so it'll be pretty slow going from here. Hopefully we'll see a lot more cool stuff.

Some other recent highlights:
In Gherella State Forest we met a group of teenagers camping by us and we went cane toad hunting with them one night with slingshots. Cane toads are a big pest here. We shot a few of them and got chased by some cattle before heading back to the fire and making s'mores with them.

In Noosa North Shore we fed wild kangaroos who were hanging out right by our van for a couple days.

We are both covered with sand fly bites and can't stop itching.

There's more and hopefully next time I'll be able to flesh out a few more things. See you soon!