Being in Sydney over 3 months, this last leg of our Australia trip seems to be going fast, even though we have 2 more months to go! Today, we headed down to Surfers Paradise and then on to Byron Bay, and then come back to Brisbane for another whole week.
We haven’t really seen too much of Brisbane yet, even though I appears to be really nice. Two days ago, we just decided to hang low and stay in our room at one of the Brisbane boutique hotels . Then after only napping for about an hour, we went out and found a bar right in the city center and the Grand Prix was playing on the huge screen. After having a few drinks and watching the Grand Prix, we, still had pretty much of a lazy hazy day. We walked about the city a bit, grabbed a bite to eat and headed back to our hotel for the night.
Yesterday had more happening. We hired a car and drove to the Glasshouse Mountains and then on to The Big Pineapple. The Glasshouse is a series of volcanic plugs formed when the lava cooled. Captain Cook named them, he thought they resembled the glass foundries that were just outside his home town of Yorkshire. As for the native Aboriginals, these mountains are extremely significant and have something to do with Dreamtime. They named the plugs, Tibrogargan, Beerwah, Ngungun and Coonowrin. I think I like Glasshouse Mountains better.
After a short hike in the Glasshouse National Park, we drove north to the Big Pineapple, it’s definitely a tourist destination and Queensland has turned it into a theme park. It’s free and we went inside the pineapple and there’s a shop inside, naturally.
We drove on to Sunshine coast and drove all along the coastline, which takes us back to Brisbane. We made it back in time to go see Green Day and Simple Plan perform in concert. What a nice way to end a day.
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