Camp last night is just a bit too close to A1. This is a main north south corridor so heavy truck traffic is nearly 24/7. Sometime in the night things calm down and we grab a nice night’s sleep. Our alarm is birdsong this morning. It is a sweet, clear-tone melody that floats through the air from high in the treetops. It starts as just a few sweet notes then with some experimenting and arranging grows into a lovely melody. It is mostly a solitary songster with only occasional replies from afar. If I have to get up anyway this is a wonderful alarm! I later discover that that bird is called the pied butcherbird. Not a very pretty name for the maker of such a beautiful song.
We hit the road pretty early and stop just short of Brisbane in Beerwah. Kent is pretty happy with the quality of M1, a newly built, divided, limited access motorway vs A1, a two lane, bumpy route that passes through lots of little towns.
Beerwah is our stop because I want to visit the Australian Zoo, founded by Steve Irwin to make sure we see more of the quintessential Australian animals that we are even less likely to see in the wild since we are here a week shorter. Besides, it sounds like fun.
When we stop for fuel enroute we come upon an ice cream shop specializing in lyche based flavors. Kent goes for unadulterated lyche flavor. I try lyche/ginger. Both are quite good  .We have time this afternoon to check out the Glass Mountains NP Lookout. I am to find that the visitor centers are closed, Novel Coronavirus stuff, so no maps or trail information. It is pretty hot anyway, 34C, making hiking not sound very attractive in the heat of the day any way. We find a nice camper park for the night. Pasta with pesto make for a tasty dinner and we are in for a quiet evening.