We spent two nice days in Brisbane, taking full advantage of the very generous public transport ticketing system: with the bus ticket to the city we could enjoy 2 hours of "free" travel on the ferry along the river. This is the most enjoyable form of sight-seeing, we went all along downstream and back on Thursday, then upstream on Friday. We walked around the city-centre, and spent most of the time on the South Bank cultural and entertainment area. We visited the museum and the art gallery, listened to a free folk concert at the Riverside Centre, I had a plunge in the free city Beach pool on the South Bank, and another free jazz concert on Friday night. Brisbane was very impressive, well organised and well managed, better than Sydney, clean, no graffiti, no homeless people on the streets - hard to believe...
Brisbane CBD from the river Brisbane városközpont a folyó felől |
Saturday we continued Northbound, but only to the Glasshouse Mountains, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. These are interesting volcanic formations, 4-5 steep rock domes raising from a flat surface. We left the caravan at the info centre car park, and went around with the car to a few lookup points, taking in the view. Again we had a beautiful clear sunny day, so we could take plenty of nice photos and videos. In the afternoon we took a walk in the Mary Cairncross Park, a well preserved subtropical rainforest, a bit further North of the Glasshouse Mountains.
The Glasshouse Mountains |
In the rainforest |
A szombati napot a Glasshouse Mountains környékén töltöttük. A viszonylag lapos terepből hirtelen emelkedik ki vagy 4-5 kúp alakú párszáz m magas kopár hegycsúcs, régi vulkánok megmaradt, lepusztult magja. Aztán meg egy épen megmaradt "igazi" eső-erdőben (rainforest) tettünk egy kis sétát, az is nagyon érdekes volt. Jó sokat fényképeztünk és filmeztünk. Este egy kisvárosi "showground" (kb. vásártér, de itt több annál) parkolójában álltunk meg éjszakára ahol szabad kempingezni. Ráadásul egy zenei fesztivál is zajlott itt éppen, de szerencsére elég messze voltunk az akció színterétől, elég nyugodt éjszakánk volt.
Today, Sunday 22 April, our first stop was at Kondalilla Falls near Flaxton, where we did a nice walk to the falls and back with a few hundred stairs for a bit of morning exercise. Then we came down to the coast through Nambour to Coolum Beach, into a beachfront caravan park. The weather is overcast but quite warm. We went down to look at the beach, where a helicopter rescue operation was going on just then, fortunately successful.
Coolum Beach - a successful rescue operation Sikeres életmentés a hullámokból Coolum Beach-en |
We plan to stay here for at least another day, to look around the Sunshine Coast and have a rest, before we continue further North.
Our itinerary is now recorded on a Google Map, check the following link:
http://g.co/maps/wcwv8
Az útvonalunk követhető egy Google Map lapon, itt:
http://g.co/maps/wcwv8
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