As the heat wave continues we did another early morning walk, this time across the Hinze Dam wall and surrounds. The dam is full and overflowing, and everything is very green. The most fun part of the day was our visit to the House Down Under at Pacific Fair. It provided plenty of great photo ops, though sometimes it felt a little disconcerting walking on the ceiling.
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The Breakfast Creek / Yowoggera Bridge and Lores Bonney Riverwalk extension is now open, providing an active transport link between the inner city and northern suburbs. We always enjoy a river walk, so this week we decided to test out this new bridge. We made an early start to beat the heat, meeting at Apollo Road and taking a ferry across to Bretts Wharf. The ferry staff are always incredibly polite, helpful and entertaining, and today was no exception. They are such great ambassadors for our city. We had forgotten it was Valentine's Day, but they hadn't and a picture was organised in its honour. The walk was cool at this early hour and we enjoyed the river views and art work along the track. When we arrived at Newfarm Park a lovely surprise awaited us. Leanne, who was unable to do the walk due to an injury, greeted us with a delicious brunch of French toast, bacon crème fraîche and fresh berries. Life doesn't get much better than this. We decided we needed to walk further along the river after that big meal, but the weather was heating up and after a couple more kilometres we caught a ferry back to Apollo Road.
Moreton Bay extends some 125 kilometres from Caloundra in the north almost to Surfers Paradise in the south. It contains around 360 islands in total. This includes the populated Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra Islands collectively known as the Southern Moreton Bay Islands. We took a series of ferry rides this week to explore this part of the bay. Our first stop was Russell Island where we began with coffee, cake and bubbles to celebrate another birthday. Then we explored on foot. Russell Island is the largest of the Southern Moreton Bay Islands with a length of 8 kilometres, a width of nearly 3 kilometres, and a population of close to 4,000. |
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