Monday, November 14, 2022

11 November 2022 Brisbane Australia: River Time and Tea Time

 


We started off with tea and breakfast.  Then we exercised, Leslie with a session of Zumba dancing and off to the pool to swim laps for me.  We took a walk along the river, halfway across the Goodwill Bridge and then continued west and found a few new places that we liked.  There is a walkway that has been recently refurbished with cool art and informative signs.  It goes along the mangroves and past a flood damaged City Cat ferry terminal. At the end of this walkway we happened upon a sushi place.  We stopped in for some sushi and squid.  On our way home we decided to try to find a tea shop that we had researched earlier.  We found it and it was a gold mine of fine teas.  We bought our favorite Gyokuro and also some jasmine green, hibiscus, Japanese monkey king and Japanese lime tea.  The shopkeeper gave us a free tea and it was a tasty Australian sencha.   Score!



On our walk along the river we saw a wedding going on across the river


Dusky moorhens greeted us


A fun statue and fountain we found in the gardens


The Black Boy plant that we saw depicted on the sardine can art the  day earlier


Textured walkways and fencing with fish imagery


Walking along the mangroves


Kookaburra smoochaburra


She's a Lady, whoa whoa whoa, she's a lady


Decorations at the sushi bar


Tea tea everywhere!


Lots of tea pots and tea accessories too


Cash or Tash was his name, even though he is fuzzy in this picture he was a delightful individual




It has been 159 days since we began our Migration