Poor Brisbane
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stephbgI was in Brisbane in December 2008 for my cousin's wedding and the chance to meet tigers. This is an excerpt from one of my blog entries at the time and it's a shame to think of all those lovely facilities being given a dunking, never mind a dose of fast-running wreckage.
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The River
Brisbane city has much more river frontage than Perth, by way of the Brisbane River's sinuous path. You can walk for miles along cafe-front boardwalks, parks, facilities, and gardens. The river itself is not quite as pretty as the Swan, being brown and full of storm debris, but they've taken advantage of what they have. I did not find out if the river had jellyfish.
The Mangrove Swamp
You heard me. A stretch of riverfront along the botanic gardens has been preserved and supplied with amusingly rotting wooden walkways. It was high tide on our first visit and so I was disappointed to miss out on the little crabs, but we went back on another day and spent a pleasant--indeed steamy--half-hour or so spotting tiny aggressive wildlife.
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I don't think those little crabs are going to make it :-(
So much of the locals' commentary about the city featured the words "and this is where the water reached in 1974". My folks were actually there on holiday at the time (perhaps fortunately sans offspring) and got to stay an extra four days. About 100m from their hotel buildings were flooded up to the first floor, but it's a hilly place and they stayed relatively (in a non-drowny kind of way) dry.
There's a flat bit of the city in a loop of the river that looks like it would flood if two people sneezed at once, but the actual high water mark on the cliffs in other parts represents a staggering volume of water. It helps the imagination to remember that the ocean tides were (and will be again) involved. That flood wasn't just rain, it was the sea.
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The River
Brisbane city has much more river frontage than Perth, by way of the Brisbane River's sinuous path. You can walk for miles along cafe-front boardwalks, parks, facilities, and gardens. The river itself is not quite as pretty as the Swan, being brown and full of storm debris, but they've taken advantage of what they have. I did not find out if the river had jellyfish.
The Mangrove Swamp
You heard me. A stretch of riverfront along the botanic gardens has been preserved and supplied with amusingly rotting wooden walkways. It was high tide on our first visit and so I was disappointed to miss out on the little crabs, but we went back on another day and spent a pleasant--indeed steamy--half-hour or so spotting tiny aggressive wildlife.
...
I don't think those little crabs are going to make it :-(
So much of the locals' commentary about the city featured the words "and this is where the water reached in 1974". My folks were actually there on holiday at the time (perhaps fortunately sans offspring) and got to stay an extra four days. About 100m from their hotel buildings were flooded up to the first floor, but it's a hilly place and they stayed relatively (in a non-drowny kind of way) dry.
There's a flat bit of the city in a loop of the river that looks like it would flood if two people sneezed at once, but the actual high water mark on the cliffs in other parts represents a staggering volume of water. It helps the imagination to remember that the ocean tides were (and will be again) involved. That flood wasn't just rain, it was the sea.
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Date: 2011-01-11 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 01:53 am (UTC)Hang on, Brisbane.