White Rock is one of our favourite walks, and it always looks spectacular under a blue sunny sky. We are becoming used to early morning starts and picnic breakfasts, so we chased the late setting full moon to Spring Mountain Conservation Park and dined on one of the many picnic tables there. Walking trails vary in length and difficulty. We chose the six kilometre circuit which is a relatively easy walk on a wide well-cleared track. Some parts needed a little rock scrambling as we chose to climb and follow a ridge that gave us excellent views of the surrounding countryside with the skyscrapers of Brisbane looming in the distance. It is now well signposted thank goodness, as we have been known to get a little lost in the past. In fact one of our group (not mentioning any names) once turned the two hour walk into a five hour one because she was lost. Part one of our day successfully fulfilled our hunger for food and hiking, but the day was yet young, so we headed into Ipswich to explore the landscape through art. Arthur Boyd (1920–1999) is considered one of Australia’s most significant modern artists and the Ipswich Art Gallery's exhibition "Landscape of the Soul" is open until 18 August. We spent a bit of time wandering here before ending the morning with a delicious Indian banquet and a fine glass of wine. All in all, another great day of retirement.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
March 2024
Categories
All
|
- Home
-
Travel Tales
-
Australia
>
- Frazer Island - 2016
- Australian Road Trip - 2017
- Melbourne - 2018
- Warra Races - 2019
- Queensland Road Trip - 2019
- Brisbane to Proserpine - 2020
- Waiting Out a Pandemic in the Whitsundays 2020 >
- North Queensland Road Trip 2020 >
- Qld Road Trip 2021 >
- Uluru, N.T. 2021
- Southern Downs and Granite Belt 2021
- S.W.Qld - 2022
- N.S.W. Road Trip 2023
- Cairns Train Trip 2023
- Toowoomba 2023
- Tasmania 2023
- Byron Bay - 2023
- Train Trip to Adelaide - 2024
- China
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Greece
- Netherlands
- France and Belgium
- Romania
- Russia
- South America
- Sweden
- Turkey
-
Australia
>
- Cruising
- Classroom Quotes
- Poetry Place
- Photo Gallery
- Walking Blog