Archive for November 12th, 2007
Bribie Island commute
November 12, 2007Bribie Island is just up the coast from Brisbane and it was about an hour’s drive this morning, going the opposite way from the in-bound commuter traffic. One of the joys of living in Queensland’s largest city is how quick and easy it is to get to beaches, forests, or mountains.
After being here more than two years, we’ve even begun to have favorite places that we know from previous visits. One of those is Buckley’s Hole Conservation Park, the “hole” being a lake only a hundred yards or so from Pumicestone Passage, the strip of sea water that separates Bribie from the mainland.
Since we’re having a cooler-than-normal spring (summer starts December 1 here and this area will be toasty by Christmas), we were glad of our windbreakers as we walked between the pond and the passage looking Read the rest of this entry »