Day Three - Latrobe

This entry is pretty much simply to brag that we saw a platypus in the wild!! One of my goals this year, before even dreaming up Tasmania was to see a platypus in the wild, it just turns out tassie has an abundance of wildlife and thus the chances of seeing a platypus were pretty good, especially in Latrobe, home to the platypus. My research told me dawn or dusk were our prime times, though since we spent much less time in Railton than expected we decided to wonder around latrobe's park to get a feel of the area and return back later before sunset. Not to carry the suspense any longer, at 1pm a platypus swims right past us, not only did it dispel the dawn/dusk myth it was also completely non shy as we sat watching it fish for food for about fifteen minutes or so. Definitely one of the coolest moments of our trip.

After being way too efficient with the day, we decided to press onwards to tomorrow's itinerary, crossing a few more big things off the list and checking out Devonport's lighthouse.

By the way I came up with the best accidental puns of the trip this day

Heading to find the big spud, I said to Ben "keep your eyes peeled"

And then on the way to the big apple and after getting slightly lost I told Ben,

"I'm not too cut up about finding it"

And after telling Ben I was pretty sure I saw a quoll he remarked "I'm not qualified to comment"

We cracked each other up :)

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Brisbane Big Things

A few Brissie Big things to add to the list..the ever growing list I might add!
It will be fun when I can compile them altogether :)

"Big Cicada" in Southbank. I don't know if this can be claimed as a big thing, as it's more of a sculpture sitting outside the Brisbane Museum and Art Gallery. When scouting for big things the internet is my only guide and I think sometimes people claim something when perhaps it isn't really a 'big thing' :P

The Big Boot as someone that grew up in Brisbane, I've seen the boot undergo a lot of changes, it's back now to it's original brown which is nice

My friend, Emaya, came along with me, for the next few big things, some more dissapointments though, you've be warned!

First up Yatala's Big Pie. You can't really get a good glimpse of this one, so it was two thumbs down from us

The pie's also weren't as great as I remembered them!

Next was the "Big Gun". Two words for this one...DON'T BOTHER! I think people got confused with this one cause the shopping centre is called the 'Big Gun'. The shopping centre was quite frankly, whack with a Small Cow and a Big Bull as well...random

I would definitely rate the Big Bull over the 'Everday Sized Gun' but since Queensland already has a lot of big bulls, I wasn't impressed :P

We then discovered the best big thing of the day the Big Redback Spider!

After almost missing him (you have to drive into the landscape shop, peeps!) we were pretty thrilled to see there was an actual toilet in the outhouse

Thanks Emaya for your rad posing

Which brings us to the last Big Thing of the day, the Big Apple, again kids, do not bother! Stupid cheap trick of writing "big apple" upon this very small apple *shakes head in disgust*

 the addresses are listed on my flickr site, just click each photo

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