Anyway, it's just to the west of Quota Park, on the other side of Petrie Creek. It's got some very grand murals, attractive open spaces, benches, and play areas, and it's generally rather classy.
It's going to be part of a continuous chain of parks and walkways stretching several kilometres through the town.
Funny thing though, it doesn't seem to have a name yet. I'll keep looking at the maps and through the council info. And maybe report back!
Banks St Reserve in Alderley, in Brisbane's inner north-west.
The Eggmolesse Environmental Park is in that part of lowlands Buderim that adjoins the grounds of the Immanuel Lutheran College. It's got tracks and boardwalks (some still under construction), and labels to identify some of the rainforest trees.
Eggmolesse, by the way, seems to be a name associated with blackbirded kanakas ('sugar slaves') of 150 years ago. The land in question here was donated by George Eggmolesse in 1988.
Maleny has quite a few attractions. Quite the place in many ways. I checked out the Mary Cairncross Reserve yesterday, and wasn't disappointed.
It's not just a park or patch of rainforest with public access. It's got an excellent little network of easy walks, all well curated with educational signage etc. It's got a very fine little visitor centre too, a treetop walk, a cafe, and last but not least, magnificent views of the Glass House Mountains.
In 1970 a crew of Ecuadorian expeditioners landed near here, after completing the then world's longest raft journey. They had sailed 13,700km on their balsa wood vessel, La Balsa, to highlight the likelihood of such journeys across the Pacific taking place also many centuries ago. They arrived here after 161 days, and thereby doubled the distance covered by Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki in 1947.
More here, courtesy the Sunshine Coast Council: La Balsa arrival story
I'm always game for a new 5 km early morning exercise circuit.
Here's a corkscrew tree!
Still a very nice place though. For some reason, Google Maps thinks it's Noosa Botanic Gardens. It's actually the Noosa Parks Association Park, or something similar, and it's at the western end of Hastings St in Noosa. Google Maps has done this to me before. Noosa Botanic Gardens is actually a few kilometres to the west, on the banks of Lake MacDonald near Cooroy, and here:
I'd been wondering how much of the hillside was still in a fairly natural state, and whether you could access it and make your up through the bush.
Well, one place you can do this is the E J Foote Sanctuary. Sergeant Foote was a war hero from WW2, whose family owned the hillside. They donated the land that now forms this very pleasant reserve.
