Sadly we had to leave Flaxton this morning and move on. On our way we stopped for coffee and a croissant at the lovely local French restaurant. The proprietor is friends of Dene and David’s and we had a lovely reception. We headed straight off from there and back through Brisbane, across the Gateway Bridge and down towards Canungra. there we joined the...
Mooloolaba seafront was very neat. Even the ibises are very well trained and only cross the road at pedestrian crossings. The ibis was historically rare in urban areas, but since the 1970s has decided that it would like the better facilities and in particular the better food scraps offered in towns and cities. They are most commonly found in open public areas, often...
After a rain storm last night, the weather still couldn’t be described as a classic Queensland spring day – grey and cloudy – but it did keep the temperature down and made it quite a comfortable day. We started with a walk around the Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve. This is an area of 530,000 square metres and was donated to the local council to...
The forecast wasn’t a classic this morning, but we should know never to trust forecasts. It dawned hot and sunny … So, we headed off to catch the Cityhopper again, only to find that we had just missed one. Given they are every half an hour, we figured we might as well walk ahead of it and allow it to catch us up at some point. It never did catch us up, so...