Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Brisbane is Lame

Hey. I arrived here in Brisbane on Sunday morning. It's an alright city, not much to do though and the hostel I was at was pretty crappy. Everyone there was working so they weren't around much and everyone knew eachother, so it wasn't very fun. Oh, and my room was a total disaster zone; crap was everywhere. So, after wandering around the city for a few days looking at a few things I'm moving on to Cairns tonight. The thing is that the hostel is downtown which empties out after 5pm and all the stuff closes so there is literally nothing to do. On the bright side there is a really cool street downtown they've closed off to traffic and is an outdoor mall, there are some really nice parks and pools and the place is spotless b/c they enforce their $150 littering fine to the max.

Their version of the Gardiner looks like a million bucks and isn't falling apart (yet).

My first Australian lizard. Found him outside the state library in the bushes.


The Australian version of the seagull. These things are everywhere eating out of garbages and around outdoor restaurants. Look at the pecker on that thing, it could do some serious damage.


One of the really nice parks. This trellis thing was really cool.


A tree with purple flowers?! Do we have one of those?

The coat of arms at the state courthouse.



Night shot of the city. I like the bridge and have walked over it a bunch to get to the free internet on the otherside.

6 comments:

Aaron Paas said...

Would you estimate that that is the most dangerous pecker you have ever seen?

Aaron Paas said...

Final tally for Gas across the country: $484

Congratulations to everyone that voted for Chris Bosh's earings, you are correct.

Ian said...

pics with the new camera look great rob.

what was that long white hall? where was that?

Rob Nelson said...

that was in some system of tunnels that i got lost in for a bit looking for a payphone. On a side note, somebody use 10-10-320 to call me.

Kelsey said...

Hey you have my book with you all the way in Australia?! (according to your books-read list) Did you like it?

j.groen said...

i hope the warm weather helps out your tan, mine is fading fading gone.