Who’s watching Pistol and Boo?

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has touched down in Australia for a surprise visit with Amber Heard.

Amber Heard and Elon Musk in Broadbeach this morning. Picture: Nigel Hallett.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has touched down in Australia for a surprise visit with new squeeze Amber Heard, with the pair reportedly sharing a flying fox ride on the Gold Coast.

The PayPal founder and actor girlfriend posted shots of their unannounced visit on Instagram and Twitter this morning, sharing a dinner at steak and fine restaurant Moo Moo on the Gold Coast.

TMZ reported the pair, along with two of Mr Musks’ six sons, spent the weekend at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast, where they shared a flying fox.

Ms Heard is busy filming comic book blockbuster Aquaman at Village Roadshow’s studios on the Gold Coast with director James Wan and the film’s executive producer Rob Cowan who were both at dinner last night.

Hopefully the visit causes less legal strife for Ms Heard than last time she was Down Under, which resulted in a guilty plea for smuggling her two Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, in the country with ex Johnny Depp.

It is unclear if Mr Musk is in town for business, with the clean energy entrepreneur last month tweeting that he was so confident he could fix South Australia’s energy problems that Tesla would get a 100MW solar and battery system installed and working within 100 days of signing a contract, or it would be free.

Amber Heard and Elon Musk eat at the Shingle in Broadbeach. Picture: Nigel Hallett

That led to discussions between Mr Musk and Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes, as well as South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Mr Weatherill said after the talks he would personally invite the entrepreneur to pitch for a piece of his tovernment’s $150 million renewable energy pie.

“Mr Musk made a dramatic intervention the other day — he certainly put us on the international map for renewable storage technology,” Mr Weatherill said. “He’ll be directly invited to participate in our tender for a 100mW battery.”

Mr Musk has a number of other interests in Australia with Tesla’s Model 3 electric cars selling strongly and the Hyperloop One high-speed transportation project potentially set to land here sometime before 2020.

The South African-born tech boss late last week announced his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc, in about four years, Musk said.

“If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy,” Musk said in the interview published on Thursday.

“There are a bunch of concepts in your head that then your brain has to try to compress into this incredibly low data rate called speech or typing.

“If you have two brain interfaces, you could actually do an uncompressed direct conceptual communication with another person.”

A Tesla Australia spokesman declined to comment.