Jacarandas in Brisbane
Saturday, October 17, 2015It's the season where the beautiful Jacaranda trees starts blooming! So I went on an adventure to some of the popular points of interest to show you how beautiful they are!
1. The University of Queensland
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| Forgan Smith Building (1), one of the heritage-listed sandstone cloisters enclosing the Great Court. |
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| Steele Building (3) |
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| Saw this shy Masked Lapwing near Forgan Smith Lawns |
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| UQ Lakes |
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| Love the reflection! |
Just for your perspective, UQ St Lucia is such a huge campus and it takes so much walking up- and down-hill to get to one place to another. Great workout when you have to run to classes!
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| Woolloongabba Busway Station. Bus Route 29 runs from UQ Lakes station to Woolloongabba station |
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| Brisbane Cricket Grounds, aka The Gabba |
3. Kangaroo Point
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| Took the bus from Woolloongabba station to Main St. Walked along the Kangaroo Point Riverwalk for quite a while to get this view. Brisbane CBD as viewed from Kangaroo Point Cliffs |
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| Vanilla Ice Cream and Strawberry Ice Cream to cool myself down |
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| Kangaroo Point Cliffs. I was a little bit trembling (not that I have fear of heights) whilst taking this photo from a very steep flight of stairs. |
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| St Mary's Anglican Church |
4. City Reach Boardwalk
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| I crossed the river from Thornton Street Pier just below the Cliffs to Eagle Street Pier with the CityFerry. Walked quite a bit to Boundary Street just to get this shot and walked to the CBD. (It's a long walk just in case you don't know) |
5. Cathedral of St Stephen
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| This is the side door of the Cathedral. There was too much shadow to shoot from the front and there's a wedding going on as well. |
6. Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane
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| Parliament House, George St, near QUT Gardens Point. Saw another wedding just in front this. The City Botanic Gardens is actually opposite this Parliament House so hence the newly weds and their guests were mingling around.
So that's about it for my adventure today. Guess how many steps I walked today.......
The highest temp today was 30℃ and all I had was a pair of sunnies. Good enough. Shorts, no hat, no sunscreen. So I ended up with a sunburnt scalp and super tanned face (except around my eyes), neck, arms and legs. Haha!
So that's about it for my adventure from 8:30am to 5:30pm today. Thank you so much to those who stopped by and read this until the end! Do drop your email on the chatbox on the right so I know who you are. Or you can just comment below. Hehe.
Till next time! xx
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