The day started with the highlights of yesterday’s Tour de France stage. It’s routine now. After breakfast, Tim, Alfred and I played some Aussie rules football in the parc across the street.

Our first attraction today was the Coot-Tha lookout, north of Brisbane. A quick stop to enjoy the view, and we went to the nearby Simpson’s waterfall for our lunch break and a short hike to the falls – there wasn’t much water, which puzzled us given the rainfalls just a few day ago.

We then drove to Wellington point, at the very end of a peninsula just east of Brisbane, on the Coral sea. We walked on a narrow, emerged sandbar to King Island, and came back just as the tide was starting to submerge the bar. It’s winter, but 20deg and sunny. Feels like a good summer day in Norway. For locals however, judging from how uncrowded it was at Wellington point, it’s clearly winter.

This ends our stay in Brisbane and the second week of our holidays. Tomorrow we’re heading to Gold Coast and Brunswick Head, a bit further south.