More traipsing around the centre of Brisbane today, much like yesterday. It was just another day in the city, until we spotted the abseiling koala.
It's election time in Queensland and everywhere we'd been in the last couple of weeks had been awash with political party placards. It was getting very near to election day and all the parties were trying to get their message across. The Greens chose to get their message across to the voters, the general public and the Queensland government by abseiling down the cliffs on Kangaroo Point with a giant letter on each person's back, spelling out their plea: "Vote to end land clearing". One of them was wearing a koala suit, just to remind people what the issue is (clearing land for grazing purposes is destroying habitat for koalas, reptiles and flying possums). We arrived just as they were setting up and about to descend down the cliff face, and by the time we had walked down the steps to the path at the foot of the cliff they had spelled out "END LDCLNG".
The abseilers prepare to spell it out for the news crews below (and us).
We waited around while the local news crews filmed this extremely slow real-life Scrabble game taking shape. While one of the organisers gave instructions to the abseilers ("C, can you straighten your back up please? N - you need to move a little to the left") the camera crews had their own requests: "Can the koala give us a little dance, wave his arms about or something?"
Manda at Kangaroo Point
Manda
at Kangaroo PointWe spent the day just making use of our off-peak travel passes, which meant unlimited travel on the ferries or buses until 3:30pm but then we had to wait until 7pm to get a bus back to the caravan park. We immediately took Ethel out for a spin to see the city lights and get some more photos of the CBD by night.
Views of Brisbane CBD by night.
