Well what a day its been in SE Queensland. Around lunchtime the storms came rolling in from the NE and stayed with us to about 6.30 pm. Some of the rain is the strongest I’ve seen in years and we’re told this is going to be the norm particularly during La Niña and the years ahead. Good reason not to shift to Queensland if this weather is going to be the norm, then again we’ll cop it back in Melbourne too.

Obviously with the weather hitting us hard we weren’t able to do much today but we did get to Currumbin Wildlife Santuary this morning before Armageddon hit us!

I have to admit I was disappointed. My memories are of all the birds congregating around everyone when you feed them but now feeding time is 0800 and 1600 and we weren’t there at these times, so it basically became a poor man’s Healesville Santuary (in my opinion). Plenty of Koalas and Kangaroos but I said previously it was a bird Santuary with hundreds of birds and that’s not the case now.

We did drive all over the Gold Coast today from Currumbin in the south to The Spit and Biggera waters to the north. Unfortunately it was so dark and combined with the heavy rain and hail it was not a good time fore a drive. We had planned to go for a swim this afternoon after Currumbin but that was cancelled as well. It was a disappointing way to finish off our 3 months in Queensland. We started with a sunny 33 in Mt Isa and finished with a wet and wild 20 on the Gold Coast. So the photos below are basically all from the Widlife Santuary. Yamba and NSW await us tomorrow, our last state before getting back into Victoria after 11 months.