Letter 15 - 2018 Winter Vacation / Australia

  Well... while people are enjoying their time on Chinese New Year and getting red envelopes, we're not actually in Taiwan, I went for a trip to visit my future university. But most of the trip is about having fun there and trying to see if I can adapt to their weather.

# Trip members: My sister, my mom & me (my dad was working back then)

# Taiwan => Singapore => Brisbane => Sydney => Melbourne => Singapore =>     Taiwan (we only stopped in Singapore to transfer to another plane)

# 15 days in Australia

# My allergy got miraculously healed after I came back from Australia (some of     my mom's friends told me sth about this before, but i didn't believe them back     then, how can allergy be healed, that's non sense, Australia heals allergy, ha!         But somehow it does work )  

# First Stop: Brisbane

#windy, rainy, hot(?)

  I really like birds and there are a myriad of birds in Australia, they are really cute so I decided to introduce all of them to you today, so in Brisbane there's a kind of black head white birds, they are really cute when you're feeding them, they follow you everywhere, and also they have incredible eye sight, if you fed one of them, the others which is standing 25 miles away will also gather arround you, this is the first bird I saw in Brisbane.

yeah, we are everywhere, on the streets, in the parks and also in the botanical gardens.

CUTE

  Of course there are some other birds but now I'm gonna show you my personal favorite one in Brisbane, the black and white bird with it's cute beak! They live mostly around the suburban.

  Other animals you can find it in the woods of  Brisbane... Big lizards, and wild turkeys (I touched one of their tails, soft <3)

Don't want to buy a turkey on Thanksgiving anymore? Tired of  spending so much money on turkey meat? Well... why not consider moving to Australia, a place brimming with herds and herds of turkeys, you can feed them, take pictures of them and maybe eat them idk.

Big lizard oh yeah!!! :)

Moreton island

sand slide, sand slide, swim, swim, swim, and more swim!

also some stunning views. pictures by my sis's phone.

They have some seagulls too, just not that much as Sydney

the kind of tree i like on the island, they are called grasstrees, they grow 1 centimeter per year. i like them because they kinda look like trees with brown beards :) 

Zoo of Brisbane 

  And  highly recommend people to go to the zoo in Brisbane, super cool, wallabies, kangaroos, koalas, wombats and bilbies. 

wombat, I tried to pet one, it's not scared of people, and quite soft and cute.

closer pic of wallabies

Bilby!!! Nocturnal animals, who were always sleeping during day time

Kangaroo v.s wallabies, wallabies are way smaller and shorter, also they are very shy animals, when you feed them with your hands, and trying to get them closer to your body by moving your hand closer to yourself, they will  hold on to your hands with their little claws, super adorable, but if you try harder to pull your hands back to you, they just gave up eating and run away, whereas the kangaroos usually like to get close to you, even if you don't have any food.
(also don't try to pat on wallabies, they'll run away and never come back to you, even if you had food with you, you can pet kangaroos, even if they're sleeping.)

i bought a cucubird, and it can sing if you, press the button on it, it's like a person laughing, it's really really cute, the real cucubird has a really really big head. And some Australian told me the birds sing when its about to rain.

# Next Stop: Sydney

#hot and dry

  i don't really like Sydney, cause people smoke there a lot, though, somebody told me smoking cigarettes there is very expensive.

Street birds

90% seagulls

 The Aquariu

The unicorn fish, jk

i spy my little eyes on something called mermaid

shark with his fish friend

shark tunnel

big shark again

jelly fishy

corals

people feeding mermaid

the pretty mermaid in the ocean

Into the mountain

hell ya

actually there are many cows in Australia

The Blue Mountains

in the cable car

 

Tangaroo Zoo

 Where the peacock is supposed to be ... "inside the fence"

somehow it jumped out, and my sister is trying to take a selfie with it, I'm trying to feed it.

everyone likes ice cream, even peacocks

Wet n wild

wet n wild, we met a french girl on her way to there and we are heading to that place too, so she called the uber, and she said we could ride with her, and we got to the wet n wild, then when we're heading back to the hotel, we can't call the uber, so we asked a handsome staff to help us, and he called a taxi for us, really really sweet :)
also the french girl said i speak good English:)

Universities in Sydney we visited

South West Welson
University of Sydney

# Last Stop: Melbourne

Street birds

seagulls

pigeons

smallest penguins in the world, we saw then going back to their nests from the ocean, they are only twice as big as the seagulls.

MY FAVORITE BIRDS IN AUSTRALIA

CAPE BARREN GOOSE>>>>

Universities in Melbourne

University of RMIT

University of Melbourne