During our stay on the East Coast we visited and stayed few more places worth mentioning.

Brisbane. We used Brisbane as base for two occations. We stayed there one night when we flew there from Sydney and one night coming back from camping near Glass House Mountains. We didn’t see much in Brisbane. Just went to see a movie one evening and had a walk in Roma street park during the day. It is a really nice park just in the center of the town with well maintained flower garden and a lot of birdlife and bearded dragons. 

Daisy Hill. A half an hour drive south from Brisbane there is a Daisy Hill’s koala sanctuary. The sanctuary visit was free of charge so we decided to stop by and see some koalas. The koalas are mostly sleeping during the day and they don’t seem like real animals. They are like stuffed toys curled into a ball on a tree branch. We also did a couple of small walks around the sanctuary. There was a lot of walking tracks offered around the park but at the time of our visit most of them were closed because the park rangers were burning parts of the forest.

Maryborough. On our way back from Agnes Water to Brisbane we stopped to eat in this small charming town, the birth place of Mary Poppins. We happened to be there on Sunday, when in this sleepy town nothing was open but one little cafe.

D’Aguilar National park. We spent the last two nights camping in Archer campground. The campground itself was the most basic from the campgrounds we stayed at and around the area there was almost nothing to see. But there was a lot of life in the area. Turkeys were on alert, waiting that some food would drop while we were cooking. Kangaroos were jumping in the bushes in the evenings. And in the mornings we were woken up by the laughter of kookaburras and some birds that sounded like a fight scene from Star Wars, like tens of laser guns firing at the same time. 
During the last day we went for a drive in the countryside in search for a walking trail. The driving roads there were fun but a bit scary. Really narrow roads with snakelike turns with lots of up’s and down’s. After 40 minutes driving we found a walking track called a Somerset trail. It was a 13 km trail making a loop in the national park. The trail was easy to walk and it was nice with the changing forest scenery, but after seeing the scenery in Blue Mountains and Springbrook it felt a bit dull.