Pajareo sin fronteras

I had intended for our stop at  Sandy Camp  to be our only wetlands visited during our limited time in Brisbane, as we were hoping to spend a little more time in rainforest areas. However, after losing more time in traffic than expected the previous day, it seemed that driving an hour out of our way to get to the rainforest birding area would make it difficult to both get to our target museum destination (yes, we actually did do things unrelated to birds on this trip) and where we intended to stay that night, halfway down the coast to Sydney.  Thankfully, it appeared there was a happy medium:  Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Preserve , located near the edge of Moreton Bay, was more or less on the way between our AirBnb and the museum. I was happy, since there were a number of birds I'd missed out on in Sandy Camp, and Tinchi Tamba held a few birds we were unlikely to see anywhere else, especially Mangrove Honeyeater and Mangrove Gerygone.  We arrived at the wetla...

Our first (and only) full day in Queensland was a doozy, although (mostly) for the right reasons. For the morning we had plans to visit the Sandy Camp Wetlands in Brisbane for birding, followed by a stop at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. The afternoon was going to be a mini-trip down south to the Gold Coast for a whale-watching trip. It was a full day with a lot of driving, but lots of good things to do and see.  Unfortunately, things didn't start out perfectly: it turns out that Google Maps isn't always great for navigating confusing Australian expressways, and we ended up taking a wrong turn and getting a bit lost, arriving in Sandy Camp an hour later than we expected. With that delay, we ended up postponing our trip to the museum for the following day, making this a day entirely composed of driving and nature activities- my least favorite and favorite activities, respectively!  Thankfully, things improved when we got to Sandy Camp- because there were birds of...