Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast

Australian Sojourn – February-April 2025 • Part 9

I recently spent four days in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, visiting friends from my college days and my teaching days in Goulburn. Here are a few pics from my time "up north."

Above: Dinner with Enid, my dear friend from uni days in Armidale (1984-86) – Thursday, March 20, 2025. I last connected with Enid in Melbourne in 2014.

Above: Dinner with friends from my year of study in Canberra (1987). From left: Mark, Lana, Jilly and Andrew – Monday, March 24, 2025. I hadn’t seen Mark and Lana since 2010, and Andrew and Jilly since their wedding in 1988.

Above: My dear friends Jeremiah and Kristy and their children Frankie and Sonny – Sunshine Coast, Sunday, March 23, 2025. I last saw them all last May when we celebrated a very special birthday.

Above: With Jeremiah, Sonny and Kristy. We’re in Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine Coast – Sunday, March 23, 2025.

Above: With my dear friends Raphael and Millie – Sunday, March 23, 2025.

Above: Enid and I enjoying an Aussie breakfast with a view! We’re in Manly, an eastern bayside suburb of Brisbane – Friday, March 21, 2025.

Above and below: At dawn on Saturday, March 22, Enid and I did the King Island Walk. At low tide you can walk out to the island from Brisbane’s Wellington Point.

Above and below: Visiting Montville, a town in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The Glasshouse Mountains are in the distance in the photo above.

Above and below: In Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine Coast – Sunday, March 23, 2025.

Above: A dog named Bo.

NEXT: Gunnedah

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Travelin’ North (2006)
• Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast (2010)
• Townsville (2016)

Australia Sojourn 2025:
• Return to the Great South Land
• Heavy Seas and Grey Skies
• In Birpai Country
• Journeying South
• Goulburn
• Fairy Bower Falls
• Melbourne
• Where We Belong