We had an early start both of us were up at 6am we had packing and cleaning to finish off before we took the short drive to the airport.
A last 30 minute session on the veranda of the tree-house was spent to say goodbye to all the birds and the lovely scenic view. We thought it was very nice of the local Kookaburra to bring his wife to wave us goodbye, Dawn snapped off a few pictures of them, how sweet.
Our flight to Brisbane was again on time and stress free, we picked up the hire car and drove south over the impressive Gateway Bridge to the suburb of Manly. There we met Kevin and daughter Karen who were going to be our hosts for the next two weeks. This first few days were are staying in Manly at Kevin's home and later we are going south to the Gold coast to finish our holidays.
Late in the afternoon we drove to the sea-front at Manly, it really looked like a run down North-West English sea-side town. Lots of old wooden buildings selling fish and chips and tourist kiosks were dotted all over the place. There was a cold on-shore wind blowing which didn't help.
I managed a 5 minute scan on the mud flats where I saw Australian Pelican, Australian White Ibis, Eastern Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwits, Great Knot and Grey-tailed Tattlers.
We had something to eat before driving back in the dark to our new 'home'.
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