I wonder if any photograph can express some of the wonderful scenes that I have seen across the North of Brisbane. We've trekked our way up to the sunshine coast today and i've had a wonderful day but let me not get ahead of myself. I'll be happy to give everyone a step by step walk through my seriously packed day around northern Brisbane.
We started the day with the drive up past Australia Zoo; this is the zoo set up by Steve Irwing, the Crocodile Man. However, we were not going to do a zoo today. My amazing hosts wanted to give me yet another surprise. Yes, If only you could guess; they brought Africa back in front of me.
We went to this wonderful restaurant called the Key's restaurant. The chef a Ghanian lady who has a story of her own. You can find details of this place online. The taste was phenomenal. I have to say with the limited spices and other limitations of being in another country, I was sent back to my lunch breaks in high school back in Botswana. I think, this is where I should make each one of you salivate with the pictures that I have to show you.
Now that your salivating; i'm going to tell you that this was as authentic as you can get to African cuisine.
The view from the restaurant was not as breath taking however, we did move to another place that made the view from any other place insignificant. To top it off, there was a painter sitting and painting the lovely scene and doing a darn good job at it too.
Imagine this picture in vivid oil colours in the hands of a skilled painter. That was what I saw. I should have taken a picture of that but I did not do that. :( I'm sad I did not. I think that was probably the picture that I never took that i'll regret on this trip. Nevertheless, right behind this scene was a natural tropical forest that we took a friendly trek into.
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What befell me in the forest was a sight that I could not have imagined. From the very dry and semi arid place that Australia looked to be like, I was astounded to see a tropical rainforest with all the fauna and flora right there in the midst of all this chaos. It was unbelievable.
As true to our heritage, we had to be MCCians and enjoy nature as much as muck about as much as possible and enjoy ourselves too. This mixed with the laid back Aussie nature is something to reckon with.
The nature lover that I am, I decided to walk on and continue to observe the undergrowth and after a moment of silence, you see the beautiful animals come to life and go about their daily business. These tiny birds even dared to come close to us as we walked the forest path that was laid out. I caught out on camera though as I peaked into the undergrowth of the dense bush.
We left the forest reserve and went off to take a look out at the lookout.
This was the sight that befell us. From there, it was a quick drive to the Beach. Just to see what Australian beaches were all about but not to really get on the beach. That was for the next day.
At the beach, I just fell in love with the amazing artwork made out of coloured tiles that was made. What it was is still something of a mystery to me but I was awestruck at it.
I could not really get my head around it.
After about another hour of driving from the beach, I was taken to a spectacular sight. This was Noosa, a secluded area where all the money comes to for any kind of holiday this side of the country. Even more amazing was the scenery. In the evening sun, it was picturesque and All I could do was look in amazement as to probably why the settlers first came here and made the place so secluded. We walked into a reserve where they have protected the environment and this made some of the places a little difficult to reach but still, i was good. Just take a look.
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| Looking out into the ocean with the sky decorated with clouds |
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| The Heber Boys Boiling Pot (No pun intended) |
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| The Man |
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| The fantastic duo |
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| Boiling Pot 1 |
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| Boiling Pot 2 (overflow) |
We waited for the day to come to an end and we were rewarded with this awesome image of the evening sun setting over the main land across the bay. These are the colours that I call, beautiful. Gold. Wonder what HE was thinking when he made all this.
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| Sunset over Noosa |
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