Last 2 days in Bundaberg

Two days before we headed South we rented a car. Did a bunch of grocery shopping and then in the evening went to the Mon Repos turtle beach/research station where you can watch the logger head turtles come up the beach in the dark and lay eggs.

There was about 30 people there that night and we were divided into two groups. We had to wait about an hour until the ranger spotted a turtle was coming up beach and then we were led down the beach in the dark and stood behind the turtle as she dug a deep hole with her flippers to lay the eggs in. Apparently as long as we stay behing the turtle it is ok they don't leave.
The ranger put a flashlight on ground by hole so we could see better. Then the turtle proceded to drop eggs one by one until she layed 165 eggs and then covered them up with sand and smoothed it flat to hide where eggs were. The ranger stuck a stick in the ground to mark the spot, then the turtle proceeded back down the beach to the water. The ranger then decided that the eggs were laid at the high tide line and needed to be moved up a bit. So she dug up the eggs and dug a new hole higher up and handed eggs to all of us to carry up to the new hole. The eggs are about the size of a chicken egg but have a leathery feel. The hole process took about 3 hours and we got back to the boat about 11:30pm.

The last day before leaving we went for our last bike ride down a nice seaside trail. Often when cycling on the nearby roads, Magpies will fly at your head screeching loudly then circle around and come at you again and again following you for a half mile. We noticed a lot of cyclists have 6 inch twists of wire sticking out of the tops of their bike helments, which apparently discourages the birds. Other people paint a face on the back of their helments.