Explored Brisbane

Monday, July 9, 2012

I am hiding in the fig tree.

A path through the garden

The kids and I explored Brisbane today.  We had breakfast at Pie Face and were off.  First we went to the Botanic Gardens across from our hotel.  The trees and plants were labeled which is nice since they are so different from ones we see in America.  The birds are different, too.  We liked the big  white bird with the long black beak.  It looked like it should be an evil character in a cartoon. 

The strange bird we like.  It is an Australian white ibis.

Goodwill Pedestrian Bridge

We then headed towards the Goodwill Pedestrian Bridge.  We wanted to go over to Riverlife.  It is a place where you could rock climb and rappel.  It ended up being a rather long walk and the rappelling we wanted to do wasn't available at this time.  The website never gave specific times.  We were bummed and tired, so we hopped on a water taxi and headed back to the hotel.  The kids swam before we went to Queen Street Mall for ice cream.