Southbank

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Confucius  says ...

The old and the new

It's Queensland!

Rainforest walk

Hiding in the jungle

?????

Shan's old stomping ground

Decisions, decisions

The overnight showers were still happening as we packed up this morning, in fact, it was rather murky.  As we headed north, we noticed more and more vehicles heading south – for the long weekend break, no doubt.  From Tweed Heads onwards, southbound traffic was bumper to bumper; so glad we were heading north.  Once across the border into Queensland, the rain and clouds disappeared, the sun came out and the temperature started to rise.

We are staying at the Brisbane Holiday Village, which is about 15 minutes from Southbank and very close to the Westfield Garden City Shopping Centre.  This Top Tourist park is extremely neat (I don’t think a blade of grass would dare grow longer than its neighbours!), extremely large (mainly cabins and permanents), excellent amenities and all the usual pools, restaurant, etc.  We were extremely lucky to get the emergency, emergency overflow site (fortunately we rang a few days ago), which is nice and grassy with power and water, but $51 per night is rather expensive.

This afternoon we made the 15 minute drive to Southbank and Doris found the carpark without any trouble.  It was very pleasant walking along the river front and through the parks and market – lots of interesting people to watch.  Himself also decided that as he is now in Queensland, it is time to wear shorts!  The legs could have done with a bit of fake tan.  We also found our favourite ice cream is also sold at Southbank – made our afternoon.