New Year’s Eve

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Rainforest trail

A gentle stroll through the leech-infested tick-laden forests.

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Rainforest

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Rainforest Canopy

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More rainforest

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Strangler Vine

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Trees.

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More trees

mossy log

Mossy log

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Different mossy log

The forest blocks the breeze, so it was a little sticky.

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Into the Mountains

Off to D’Aguilar National Park. The hypothesis was that it would be a little cooler in the mountains. It’s actually a little warmer if anything, but there’s a bit of breeze to take the edge off it.

Forest:

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Forest

Valley:

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Valley

View from the lookout.

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Panorama

Caterpillar:

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Caterpillar

…and on into the rainforest.

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South Bank Cultural Precinct

We spent the afternoon pottering around the Gallery of Modern Art, the museum and the Art Gallery.

This fantasy painting is about eight feet across. It’s absolutely stunning.

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A rainbow-themed installation.

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A tapestry.

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Trompe l’oeil flowers.

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Taste. Not yours. Can’t has.

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And some life-size humpbacks.

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Brisbane CBD

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Boxing Day Dinner

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Christmas Lunch

It’s 34°C on the deck right now. Due to a rare conjunction of meteorology, forethought and common sense I have not spent the last three hours doing battle with a hemispherically-inappropriate turkey. No potatoes have been roasted. Brussels sprouts are entirely absent.

Instead, we made a prawn salad with tomato flatbreads.

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Laying the foundations.

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Baking the flatbreads. You can never have too much bacon.

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Christmas Dinner. Contains all four of the major food groups – mayonnaise, tomato sauce, bacon and tequila.

The 2007 pinot/chardonnay bubbles rounded it out nicely.

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Christmas Day

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The view from Mount Coot-tha on Christmas Day. 32°C

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The Christmas Loot

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The Rain Dance Works!

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