Keeping Cool

Well, the Lord provides , doesn't he? Despite being not able to remember the theme for the Brenda Photo Challenge, and then not having a clue what I would post when I did keep looking it up...(well, there are thousands of photos on my computer, and many of them would be suitable, but I also like to be topical and up to date)....I had to go into the city yesterday to New Farm, which is just beyond the city and on the bank of the beautiful Brisbane River. So I went into the old New Farm Park, where I could drive around, and also park and get out on the riverbank, and take these photos! There is nothing like being on a city cat on the river on a warm day...for the cool breeze coming off the river to cool you down...what a way to travel!
Now despite it being winter in Queensland here, and the nights being quite cool..as I mentioned in a previous post it can get down to zero...lately 2 degrees (celsius) overnight, more correctly in the early mornings, it can also be quite warm during the day, and so it has indeed been beautiful weather with the maximum temperatures up to 22 -24 degrees! Soon it will be up to 26 degrees again...and over that by the summer every day. So it is important still to be careful when out in the sun! The river is always a cooling thing isn't it...as indeed the water? Not many people swim in the river though...they mostly go down to the beaches in the bay closeby or to the north Sunshine coast beaches, or of course to the even more famous Gold Coast an hour to the south. Where the designated swimming beaches are supposed to be shark proofed. But Beautiful!! What a way to keep cool!
Then shade is essential in our Australian climate...these shade sails popped into my line of vision yesterday, and begged to be photographed! A becoming very common way to provide shade.
But of course there is nothing like a good old shade tree is there? In this case a famous Moreton Bay fig tree. I think. I am pretty sure. Nothing like sitting beside the water under a shady tree to cool off...winter or summer. So who's coming to visit then?

But my favorite and fastest way to cool off...especially on the tennis court on an above 25-30 degree day, is of course to just pour water over my head. I'll spare you a photo. In fact, luckily I don't have one. Now I know the others at tennis must think I am a little , well, crazy, but it sure does the cooling off thing for me who seems to suffer from the heat more than the others!! Of course if it is over 35 degrees, well, then it is the pour water over all the cothes too...but I am not likely to be found playing tennis on those days. I am getting too old! Can you tell the house isn't airconditioned?

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