After the heat and activity of the weekend we had a catch-up typical Sandgate day on Monday and on Tuesday we went into Brisbane. On the way I got a haircut and a pedicure at Toombul whilst Brian went on to Roma Street looking, unsuccessfully, for 05!
The main aim of the visit was to go to the Roma Street Parkland and how beautiful was that?! In 1995 when I visited mum it was an area of old yards and dumps overlooking the railway and now it is an elegant, beautifully planted and maintained oasis garden and parkland in the centre of the city. There are world acclaimed plantings of subtropical flora, wetland species, rainforest and arid areas giving an all-round blaze of colour and spectacle. Cool walks take you round balancer lakes, into ferneries, bamboo thickets and palm courts. Native birds, especially Grey Fantails, Wood Ducks and Fairy Wrens, insects and reptiles greet you at every turn and the trees are full of birdsong.
A lovely experience and we are due for a return visit on a sunny day when I have my camera to do it justice.