Mt. Nebo in the Rain. Or not.

On the 10th June 2008 (a public holiday here) we decided to take a trip out to Mt. Nebo, on the north-eastern side of Brisbane, and to go to some of the lookout spots from the Brisbane Forest National Park and further north. The weather didn't look too hot by the time we got out that way tho, clouds had rolled in the previous evening and there was a fair amount of mist about.

We got as far as the Brisbane Forest National Park, and decided to take a short walk along one of their nature trails. M was freaking out about snakes (there was a little signboard up about watching where one walked), and was a bit reluctant to walk anywhere that wasn't paved, but I managed to convince her to carry on. We probably got about 500 metres into one of their 5km walks, through fairly dense bush





before it started to drizzle, and then to rain.

A couple of piccies of part of the Enoggera Reservoir (it looks like something out of Lake Placid, when you get close)...



...and we decided to turn back. Just as well we did, because just as we got back to the car, it started to throw it down. Bright sparks that we were, neither of us had thought to bring an umbrella. We drove a little further north towards Mt. Coot-tha, and stopped at Bellbird Grove, hoping things would clear up, but by then the rain and mist was so heavy and thick that we finally gave up and turned back.

We drove home via Ipswich, just to see what it looked like (just like any other Aussie town), and then from there carried on home and vegged out the rest of the afternoon.

I must say, even with the rain, it made a nice change from all the fetching, carrying, lifting and loading we'd been doing for the past 6 weeks. It was one of the few days - since we got here - that we didn't have to be somewhere or doing something related to moving or packing or unpacking. Just as well, since I started work the next day..