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Bringing Down Brisbane posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004
After I was warned a week prior to flying to Brisbane about my friend Kate reuniting with her ex boyfriend, it was a cold morning on the couch in her house after my first night of visiting. Thankfully the reason for traveling back 20 hours down the coast to Brissy was geared towards the Offspring Concert.
After being acclimatized by the warm weather, every morning here seems to offer no good reason to roll off the couch and attack the frightfully cold early hours of mid June in Australia.
With Josh and Candice in town we had to make the most out of the few days that we had before their hired(rented) Hyundai Santa Fe SUV would carry them down the coast on the wrong side of the road.
Kate arrived home from work just 5 minutes after I made it home from being utterly lost walking back from the big city, also being just 90 minutes before the Offspring concert was to kick off. The dear(expensive) price of tickets were easily justified while Kate and I enjoyed from inside the park. Without tickets Josh and Candice enjoyed the noise from outside the park. Excited after hearing a brief story of chills and thrills, I needed to see what I was missing outside of the park that they experienced. The following night I was visited and attacked by the equivalent of common canadian raccoons. Possums are a much slimmer, as well as being nocturnal they enjoy law bending visitors that feed them. I also had the chance to find out the hard way that holding out my finger without food to an animal partially blind, is a great lesson to be learned before being attempted.
The next few days were compiled with fornicating kangaroo petting, wild vicious koala hunting and the search for the smallest driest waterfall on Mount Coo-tha.
The free museum sparked our creativity since nothing else in that building could keep us entertained. Now that Josh and Candice have continued their travels, my words are these…. You’ll meet many friendly people along the way, the best way to repay any favours that have been granted, is to pass that act of kindness on to others that can make the most of it. Stay safe and keep to the left.
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