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Sayōnara

Adrian Cooke — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:47:47 +0000

I read a long time ago that “sayōnara” means “if it must be so.”

Great George St., Paddington, Queensland

Until next time, then.

A beautiful day in the River City

Adrian Cooke — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:54:25 +0000

Elena on the Citycat, en route to the Queensland Art Gallery:

View the Brisbane Citycat set on Flickr

Jolly’s Lookout

Adrian Cooke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:32:43 +0000

Jolly’s Lookout is one of my favourite places in Brisbane:

D’Aguilar Range, overlooking Samford Valley (view the set)

Jolly’s is in the D’Aguilar Range on the western side of the greater-Brisbane area, and about 30 minutes drive from where I grew up.

A Google map of the area

The lookout was built in the 1930s and is named after William Alfred Jolly, first Lord Mayor of the modern City of Brisbane. (Jolly was a conservative, but he turned down a knighthood, so he can’t have been entirely bad.)

The Cookes spent a lot of time at Jolly’s Lookout back in the day, especially for those early Sunday morning breakfasts of which Pete was so fond, and when I was still biologically capable of rising before 7 a.m. A few Gilberts were lost to the surrounding scrub as I recall, being a less than completely accurate kicker and not enough of a hero to fetch them back from the sharp slopes of Mount Nebo.

I made a Flickr set for old time’s sake.

Roo the day

Adrian Cooke — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:00 +0000

Elena finally gets to meet some Aussie animals:

Flickr photo set from our trip to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary