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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vectis Birder" data-source="post: 1467638" data-attributes="member: 43690">I'm now in Brisbane at this absolute shitehole of a backpackers near the station. It's 0730 in the morning, it's taken me two nights on buses to get here and I can't check in until bloody 2pm! Not good when all I want to do is go to sleep. Not only that, the place looks a run down dive, with McDonald's trash everywhere around the computers and chips on the floor. I did consider saying bugger it and going to the Holiday Inn at the coach station - until I saw that it was $239 a night and the check-in time was not a lot better at 1pm. Still at least it's only for a night. :CDid add to the list on the way from Sydney overnight - Cattle Egret, White-necked Heron and, this morning in the park just up from the coach station, Australian White Ibis. That's now 64 species seen, 55 lifers (I've seen Cattle Egrets at home, and elsewhere, and the Ibises last time I came to Aus).</blockquote>