On to Brisbane

We caught a morning bus down to Brisbane which put us in the city around 2pm.  After checking into our hostel and situating the rest of our travel in Australia, we headed out to explore downtown a little bit.  It's a decent sized city, situated on a river and we spent a couple of hours just wandering through.  For dinner we bought soup from the grocery store and brought it back to our hostel, added the rest of the rice and some couscous and ate it with some rolls.

In the morning we made scrambled eggs with green pepper and onion, then took the bus to Mount Coot-tha. The bus drops off at either the summit or the botanic gardens/planetarium at the base.  We stopped off at the summit first which had sweeping views of Brisbane and the surrounding area.  There were signs to J.C. Slaughter falls, only 1.7 km, and we decided it would be a nice hike. The falls were laughably disappointing. There was hardly a dribble flowing over the rocks.  But there was a picnic area and we ate lunch there.  We hiked back up to catch the bus down to the base. There was a 1:30 show at the Planetarium called Black holes and we decided to watch it.  It was interesting, as I find most planetarium shows are, and was narrated by Geoffry Rush.

After the show we had about an hour to kill so we lazed about in the grass outside the planetarium. We headed back into the city to catch a train to Indooroopilly (pronounced indro-pilly) where we were meeting people at 5:30 PM.  I am going to end this post here so I can talk in depth about the people we were meeting and dinner.