Hemmant Quarry Reserve is a tiny parcel of bushland just off Wynnum Road. The 24 hectare park's access is via Fleming Road, where there is a small car park A walking track, part bitumen and part boardwalk, loops around the park with great lake views and plenty of spots to sit and enjoy the peace. In the early 1920s, a quarry opened to provide gravel for roads being built in the area, but in 1936 it was flooded by an underground spring and the quarry subsequently closed. Today it is a wonderful waterhole, home to freshwater turtles and eels and an abundance of birdlife. As we walk we always catch up on the events in our busy lives, and last week was particularly interesting to say the least. Amid news of one of us about to become a granny, one of us whose son and partner bought a house, one whose sister-in-law got lost for two days, then found while bushwalking in the Northern Territory, someone sprang the news that they had won a new car. What a week! We proceeded on to Ropley Road Park after our short walk around the quarry and celebrated our many blessings over morning tea and bubbles, then took another walk. We came across some tiny railway tracks which we followed through the bush. We found out that the Brisbane Bayside Steam Railway Society runs train rides on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month.
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