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When we arrived in Brisbane, one of our team stayed with friends there, and the other six of us rented a car and drove out of the city. Driving on the left hand side of the road was occasionally an adventure. Other than the rainforests, the parts of Queensland we saw felt a lot like California. Except it was winter, so it got dark early. |
| We drove up the Sunshine Coast to Rainbow Beach, which has 75 colors of sand. This is the Carlo Sand Blow. |  |
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Spectacular views, lots of paragliders, and nice cool sand to walk on barefoot. |
| Those things that look like rock are compressed sand. |  |
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Steve hiking through the forest to Lake Poona. |
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| Jenn rests. |  |
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| We visited the Glasshouse mountains, where I took the panorama above from a lookout. We climbed 253m high Mt. Ngungun, with the view below. |
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At Lamington National Park, south of Brisbane, we visited the treetop walk in the rainforest. |
| JB on a lookout in the treetop walk. |  |
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Lamington was very scenic. |
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| Overlook of Brisbane. |  |
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Brisbane at sunset. |
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| The hostel in central Brisbane where I stayed with JB and Jenn after the Emersons went to the airport. |  |
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Brisbane put out a banner to welcome me. |
| Museum of Brisbane, actually. |  |
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The Brisbane River winds through downtown and is crossed by several nice bridges. There's an artificial beach, complete with saltwater and lifeguard. |
| The Goodwill Bridge |  |
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Views from the city hall clocktower. |
| "The energy of a mozzie in a nudist camp." |  |
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"This area is monitored by CitySafe Cameras" I guess I feel safer. |
| Brisbane street scenes. |
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