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MY WORLD number 2

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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 ...