Wild Horse Mountain Lookout - Brisbane

Got some good rain during the night which enabled our first good sleep for a while. Had a sleep in till about 7:30am! So headed off to Bribie Island. Took a quick look around the island and then headed south to Brizvegas. Ended up on the Brisbane River just outside of a lovely heritage house on a grassy hill overlooking the water in Newstead. It reminded us of the East Perth type of redevelopment that was going on. Mirvac were doing an amazing waterfront redevelopment of the old gas works site. I think the website was www.oldgasworks.com.au. Their first two developments were about 5 and 7 storeys tall. The were designed for owner occupied purchasers with one remaining apartment left in each building. The cheapest being $2.1m for a 2x2 + study. Apartments ranged from 230m2 for the most modest of apartments through to 799m2 for the 4x4 penthouses. I’d hate to think what they were asking for those!

We found a path around the waters edge, so we decided to follow it as much as possible. The Brisbane River meanders around Brisbane like a snake. We really enjoyed the walk through Fortitude Valley, New Farm and then under the great Story Bridge which is a 280m span bridge which looks like a less decorative version of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It looks equally inspiring underneath as Sydney’s most famous bridge.

We were really surprised at the number of older apartment buildings already in Brisbane. It was quite a large and sprawling city. I guess when we were last here, about 10 years ago, we came in by train and spent most of our time around South Bank and north of there. We really didn’t find much in the city of interest. I don’t even think we found the water on our last trip, so it was a totally different view. We did thoroughly enjoy our walk, even though we were exhausted and walked about 15kms in total we think. It was a long and tiring but enjoyable day.