A Great Walking City

Brisbane is a great place to take long walks. These pictures were taken on a few of our wanderings. The three with the city in the background were on a pedestrian bridge that links a huge botanical garden and river front walk on one side to a climbing park and another river walk on the other.

We saw climbers traversing the rocks well after dark, but with the lighting provided by the city it doesn't seem as crazy as it sounds. At this same park, there are numerous clean public restrooms - open at night - well lit - (I know it's shocking but it's true) - AND public "cookers"(gas stoves), free.













We saw this beautiful pelican (huge) down on the sea shore, in a town not far from the boat.
Where we also ran into the lawn bowlers.













In other news, Dave flapped his wings hard and arrived at the airport early this morning, bearing great cruiser gifts: a second dinghy, a whole spool of rope, and little things we left such as a waterproof laptop bag. In turn we treated Dave to a bicycle ride on the left hand side of the road and his first Australian beer.

We're still in a holding pattern about the boat, waiting for funds to clear, so we are land bound for a few more days. Maia is getting closer to being ours.