Today was an early start for sunrise pictures! Sun came up around 6:30, and we viewed it from Mount Coot-tha which faces east toward Brisbane, the sunrise and the ocean 🙂 There were all kinds of bicycle riders going up the mountain as we were driving — goo for them! One woman at the top said she goes up there every morning!!
After Mount Coot-tha we headed over to Newstead House. It’s an early settlement house that has been added onto over the years. It’s such a beautiful spot and the verandah is gorgeous! Overlooks the river (Brisbane River of course). It the oldest example of a “Queenslander” style home, the oldest surviving residence, and is part of the Queensland Historical Trust. It reminded me of going to Pioneer Village and looking at our “old” stuff in Canada. There was also my first big ugly spider, we don’t know what it’s called but its a common garden spider — and much larger than our spiders! I’ll post a pic in a bit.
We headed over to an area of Brisbane called Portside where Lori aspires to live someday! Kind of similar to living along the lakeshore in Toronto. Lots of expensive shops, cafés, a movie theatre and its all along the Brisbane River. We had lunch at a fish and chip place called Fresh & Wild, and I had the Flake — which is shark!! (Sorry Shirl). It was good, a light coloured fish which surprised me for some reason. It’s not as flakey or oily as a halibut, so I think a lot of people would like it, it’s not overly fishy.
High/Low:
High: Newstead House
Low: the spider!!
WOD: Ute: is a truck here, very common, that’s like half car, half flatbed.
Carolyn's Australian Adventure 