Heading south now, from the sub-tropics to the temperate zone.
last day in Queensland
Tag: australia
Phaseolus lunatus
Thylogale stigmatica
buttress roots
I sat on the rainforest floor to sketch these fig buttress roots, but within a few minutes found myself to be leech food. I hurriedly plucked about six of the little buggers off my legs and arms and abandoned the location. Mt Glorious is indeed glorious, if you love rainforest, and don’t mind leeches.
Streptocarpus caulescens
Kigalia africana
I caught the CityCat ferry over to New Farm Park and went for a wander. The sausage tree caught my eye!
Brisbane
Fun little city outing with Cali.
Tui’s garden
Acacia podalyriifolia
Many of the green spaces in this suburb have more grass than tree cover. But Alice Mawson Reserve is thick bush. I spent an hour or two meandering through, and when I emerged I was greeted by a couple of kids on their scooters. “Isn’t it great in there?” they yelled enthusiastically. “Did you see any spiders or snakes? Did you see any koalas? Did you see any lizards? How big?”
I pulled out my sketchbook and they exclaimed over it. The boy said excitedly “I draw too! Every day!” Then they were off on their scooters. The whole interaction made me smile. A couple of nascent nature journalers, perhaps?
glass house mountains
The Glass House Mountains are a group of thirteen hills that rise sharply from a plain on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The mountains lie within the traditional lands of the Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi people. First Nations Australians hold a rich legend surrounding these mountains, with Mt Beerwah being especially significant as the “mother” of the range.
Both Indigenous groups request that visitors refrain from climbing Beerwah and Tibrogargan out of respect for their sacred importance, a call they have voiced publicly since the mid-1990s, to little avail. In Gubbi Gubbi tradition, climbing Mt Beerwah is believed to bring bad luck.
My daughter and I did not climb Mt Tibrogargan—we circumnavigated its base, and saw some really cool invertebrates, flowers, and birds, as well as views of more distant mounts.
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