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Australia Day 9: Koalas!

3 July 2025 • 293 km / 182 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 4 July 2025
  • Australia 10

We started this morning with a visit to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. Such adorable creatures!

A grey koala clinging to a tree trunk amid eucalyptus foliage, holding a leaf to its mouth with one paw while its tongue is visible. Dappled sunlight falls across its fluffy fur and the surrounding greenery.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia
A close-up of a koala with soft grey fur, large fluffy white-and-pink-edged ears, and a prominent dark nose, surrounded by green eucalyptus leaves in dappled sunlight.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia
A koala clings to a slender eucalyptus trunk, gripping the bark with its claws while looking toward the camera, its grey fur and fluffy white chest catching dappled sunlight amid green eucalyptus foliage.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia
A mother koala holding her young joey close against her chest as they cling to a eucalyptus tree trunk, with green leaves in the background. The joey peers out from the embrace, its dark eyes and fuzzy grey fur visible against the mother’s thick fluffy coat.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia
A grey koala clinging to the fork of a tree trunk with its sharp claws gripping the branches, surrounded by green eucalyptus leaves in dappled daylight. The koala has a pale belly, fluffy white ears, and a large dark nose, and rests its body against the bark.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia

We then took a meandering road trip through the inland hills before arriving at our resort in Noosa Heads.

A grassy slope of dry golden and green grasses leads down toward the calm blue water of Lake Wivenhoe, with a stand of tall eucalyptus trees on the left and low hills in the distance under a clear deep-blue sky with a faint moon visible.
Hamon Cove Recreation Cove, Lake Wivenhoe, Queensland, Australia
A grassy hillside under a clear deep-blue sky, with a long white shed building and a rusty red shipping container sitting on the ridge. A dark forested range of pine and eucalypt trees runs across the background.
Woolmar, Queensland, Australia
A wide tidal flat at dusk with the sun setting just above a low, silhouetted shoreline of distant hills and trees, casting a band of orange glow that fades into a clear deep-blue sky. Wet sand and shallow channels in the foreground reflect the fading light, with a few tiny distant figures along the water’s edge.
Noosa Spit Recreation Reserve, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia
Three people sit in folding chairs in silhouette on a sandy beach, facing a calm waterway as the sky glows orange along the horizon at dusk, with a tree-lined far shore in the distance.
Noosa Spit Recreation Reserve, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia
A tree-lined shore silhouetted against a glowing yellow-to-blue gradient sky at dusk, with a strip of pale sandy beach and dark rippling water in the foreground.
Noosa Spit Recreation Reserve, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia
People relax along a grassy foreshore at dusk beside a calm river mouth, with some seated in folding chairs and others gathered at a picnic table beneath the silhouette of a large spreading tree. The sky glows orange and yellow above the horizon as the sun sinks, with a sandy beach and distant figures visible across the water.
Noosa Spit Recreation Reserve, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia

Fun fact: I had the chance to shoot this same sunset on my first trip to Australia 29 years ago.

I’m struck by how lucky I was to arrive just as the sun was setting right over the mountain across the way. It being depeer into winter this time, the sun was not as conveniently placed.

Also: After experiencing the depth of Tasmanian winter, it’s really nice to have warm and sunny weather to wrap up our trip.

Brisbane to Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia · 293 km / 182 mi
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