More Old Queenslanders
Out and about today, I came across these two old Queenslanders, as I was exiting a car park over the road. A Queenslander can be a person who lives in the State of Queensland, as I do, in Australia. Or a an old house that was built in the same state. Today I am mostly talking about the houses. They are older wooden houses, with corrugated iron roofs, mostly with a verandah, but not always. Quite often elevated, to allow cooling breezes to flow underneath, since our subtropical climate is mostly warmer rather than the few weeks of winter weather we experience in the middle of the year. Dear Nimoola here on the right, has clearly seen better days. With a couple of broken windows in the front there, I doubt that it is occupied at the moment. the one on the left in the original photo, on the other hand, is much cared for and loved by the looks of it. Many of these old houses are sometimes used for businesses in local areas. Or bought up, put up on stilts and built underneath for extra r...