The pilgrims are on the move again.🏃
We left behind torrential rain in Northland so special thanks to our wonderful neighbours who are keeping an eye 👀on our place and to Graham & Gayle for the airport run. After a flight change switcheroo, thanks to Air New Zealand, we arrived in Brisbane at 7.15am on March 25th. The sun was shining and it was hot, hot, hot. We had the VIP treatment with my brother and the fabulous Narelle picking us up and whisking us off to brunch at Cooper's in Manley. Cracking start to our trip ...views out over the sea and great company 💓
For autumn the temps here in Brisbane are amazing, it feels like full on summer to us. Average temp 28°C with gorgeous sunny days and clear skies. Everyone here gets out early for their walks as you'd melt later in the day.
This is the start of our trip to Europe, next stop is an overnight in Bangkok and then three weeks in Vietnam. What a time to be travelling. Eeek. We booked our tickets well before Christmas and now the airspace over the Middle East is looking very uncertain with flights being cancelled and flight re-routing. We will be flying through Doha at the end of April so we have our fingers crossed that the airspace will be safe by then. So far we've had no change notifications 🙏
We've had a fantastic time exploring the Redlands coast with a lunch overlooking the Scarborough pier and beach.
The public parks and community facilities are amazing. Everything seems so well cared for and not had the you know what kicked out of it as we see so often back home. The wharf had such great facilities for the fisho's with the filleting benches looking well cared for and clean!
We had another day exploring the Glasshouse mountains, visiting Maleney and Mapleton. Talk about lunch with a view!
We could see right down to the coast. The trees and foliage were so lush and sound of the cicadas was amazing!
Everything's bigger in Texas, strike that .. Brisbane 😁
The bird life here is stunning. Magnificent Osprey, cheeky Lorakeets and very friendly Magpies. The 'Three Amigo's' came to the door every day looking in and clearly signalling it was time to be fed a wee treat. Beautiful warbling birdsong...they literally were singing for their supper. You could spend hours watching them, so entertaining.
Redlands is a beautiful area of Brisbane. On our last night we had fish & chips at Wellington Pt and caught the sunset....an absolute stunner.
The park and wharf was full of happy, quiet family groups just enjoying the gorgeous evening and being together.
Birkdale and Redlands Coast missing you already.... we'll be back.
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