Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Tuesday, 8 Mar - Brisbane
"Good morning everybody, it's 0700 and breakfast is being served" is announced over the PA system. There's a new lady at reception, and she's more into her job than the previous one.
Our '90's model Corolla with more than 250,000km on the clock takes us an hour or so south to a mountainous area, Lamington National Park, where we take a 35km, tightly winding drive up 1100m at O'Reilly's. There's a treetop walk over slightly swinging suspension bridges, 15m high. Nothing really spectacular but fun to do. After that a walk in the well set out botanic gardens.
It starts to rain softly. Then hard, harder and hardest. Now we understand the origins of the name 'rainforest'. Simple really.
Our plans to do a couple of walks are washed away and we make a wet retreat, heading down to Canungra, where we started. Nice stop on the way down at a lookout where it's as good as dry and the sky is constantly changing cloud formations, with the occasional ray of sun breaking through. Tamborine Mountain is on the other side of Canungra (where we fill up for the second time today, two lots of just more than 20 l for $20) and it's a good looking area with well kept houses and gardens and the occasional view of the surroundings, where we can see sky-scrapers in the distance and wonder whether it could be Brisbane, about 50km NNW from here.
A last short stop at Cedar Creek Falls, nothing worth recommending, and it's 1630 and we're off back to Brissie.
Yesterday we did 180km, today 270km.
Food is again Asian, a big $19 Chinese takeaway, leaving a full portion for tomorrow. Just like our lodgings in Bangkok, we can use a communal fridge to store stuff.
That's about the only similarity between the two cities, the communal fridge. Where Bangkok is vibrant and unpredictable, Brisbane is just too neat and tidy for me.
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