MY WORLD number 2

Welcome to my beautiful world. Brisbane is a bustlling city on the banks of the Brisbane River, and is the capital of the State of Queensland in Australia. I will let you look up the history for yourself! Otherwise I might get it wrong! The above photo was taken at the University of Queensland, which is located also on the bend of the river at the suburb of St Lucia. A great place to study but not the only one in the capital. There is also Griffith Uni , and QUT, Queensland University of Technology. There are other tertiary institutions scattered around the State, which is very large, and diverse. From the long coastline of beaches, and the Great Barrier Reef in the North, to the Great Dividing Range which extends from the north to the south, a couple of kilometres inland...beyond which are various fertile farming soils of plateaus, mining areas, as well as sparse outback areas of cattle and wheat and sheep properties.


In the leafy suburb where I live quite close to the University of Queensland, the wildlife like the scrub turkey is protected, and makes itself quite at home in both the leafy outdoor cafe at the uni above to the leafy backyards below...like mine!

The photo below is of the University of Queensland at St Lucia.

Of course, the best place to see the city is from Mt Cootha...quite near the city. Brisbane has a bustling city heart, but the suburbs sprawl almost from the lazy Sunshine coast beaches an hour and a half to the north, to the busy Gold Coast beaches an hour to the south.

Brisbane City suburbs...on the Brisbane River...

Interesting architecture ...a restaurant on the top of Mt Cootha....

In a sub tropical city there are many and various gardens and trees....

and many Gum Trees! There are downpours of tropical storms...mainly in the summer...that is in a normal world. Most of Australia has been in a severe drought for many years, and is badly in need of several "more than normal" wet seasons!

The views from a back verandah out to the Great Divide..beyond which extends the fertile Darling Downs, the centre of which is Toowoomba for the surrounding pastoral areas.

A tropical summer storm approaches...

But mostly the skies are quite often blue! And at this time of the year, punctuated by the glorious blue purple jacarandas.

The architecture ranges from the ornate and ostentatious...

to the humble workers cottages which people still occupy as they were a long time ago, or more often now, buy and renovate, especially in suburbs close to the city....

a typical old roof....with the ubiquitous gum leaves lying there ready for the home owner to remove before the storm and bushfire season starts.....

and a cute old picket fence....

To the more useful and practical architecture....

The river meanders and winds through the city ...dividing it from North to South...

Brisbane City from Mt Cootha...a special photo taken for MY WORLD viewers! Sorry it was a bit smoggy when I went up there last week for you! On a clear day, you would be able to see right out past the city to Moreton Bay.

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