Mt Nebo

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On Thursday June 6, we retraced some of our paths from previous visits. Our destination is to get out of the city and head into the bushland of the nearby "mountains" of the dividing range. You can drive up to Mount Nebo, then on to Mount Glorious and come down the other side to Lake Wivenhoe which is a major reservoir for the city. We had done that before and thought we might retrace that path ... but we only made it as far as Mt Nebo this time.

We first stopped in the Spring Hills neighborhood to see City Park Apartments on Gregory Terrace. We had stayed there several times on previous visits and might have this time had there been room for us. It's a great place for a long stay in Brisbane. Convenient to the city centre, spacious well appointed apartments with balconies, parking garage, there's even a little pool and a nearby city pool. Our AirBnB in New Farm doesn't compare.

We headed west out of the city and first stopped at the Walkabout Creek Discovery Center. You're in bushland here, there's walking trails complete with warnings about snakes (sic!) and a pretty smallish reservoir made by the Enoggera Dam where people swim. Today they were sunbathing, I suspect the water might have been a little cool. I was able to take a brief walk down to the water. Some of the trail was briefly closed for a wedding under the trees. There's a spot there especially for weddings. I think there's also a special room at the cafe to host the reception after the wedding.

We stopped here because we have fond memories of a lovely little restaurant that used to be here (I think it was call the "Green Tree Frog Cafe"). It was a white table cloth hidden gem back then. These days it's a much larger open air restaurant but not fine dining. I ended up having "fish and chips" yet again. I think Kate had a salad plate with fried haloumi (the Greek cheese).

The road up to Mt Nebo is a narrow two lane affair and wanders along a mountain ridge. There's not much room for the locals to pass doddering tourists like us and there was some construction. Kate found the drive hard to stomach so we cut our trip short and turned around at Mt Nebo. That's a small town, a village really, only about 450 residents, with only a few shops. But Kate did get to do some shopping. I tried to get some international stamps at the post office but they didn't carry them. I suspect they didn't carry any stamps.

There are some scenic lookouts along the way. The picture above is from Jolly's Lookout which is very near Mt Nebo. There's a William Jolly Bridge in the city very near the GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) where we visited with Ross and I suspect this lookout is named after the same fellow (confirmed by Wikipedia).

There was a winery marked on our maps, and even some signs, but we did not find it. We had stopped in years ago but I suspect it's no longer in production. Another victim of COVID.

Motorcyclists love this road. Lots of twists and turns. That can be dangerous because there's two kinds of people who ride motor bikes: those who fallen off, those who will fall off.