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| Fishing boats in Moreton Bay, Scarborough |
Exploring the peninsula as it’s called, the suburbs outside of Brisbane, includes the upscale “beach front ” towns of Redcliffe, Scarborough and Woody Point. We walk from our Moreton Bay Boat Club Marina (M.B.B.C. ) slip along the docks to the fish markets with the local fishing boats parked outside. This is quite the crowded fresh fish market with a huge variety of catch!
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| Big bugs for sale at the fish market! |
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| Fish head for sale! |
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| Green lip mussels...yumm! |
One day we rode the bus the entire peninsula to get the lay for the land” ..we ARE old people! Riding the bus for adventure! We stopped at the Redcliffe Museum and learned of the early English settlers, a mix bag of convicts, soldiers and families who first tried a go of this swampy land. After only 8 months they moved the settlement south to Brisbane...the deserted homes were called "dead houses" or "oompie-bong" by the Aboriginal natives..and the name Humpybong stuck!
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| Strange names... |
Breakfast in Scarborough this morning along the Redcliffe open market promenade with new “host” friends, David and Lanie. These are the folks we met in Fiji who offered us rental of their boat slip for a few months. They keep their 42 ft sailboat on the dock in front of their home in Newport, a high end suburb complete with private docks- boating canals.
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| David and Lanie, our Moreton Bay "hosts". Cruisers we met in Fiji. |
Moreton Bay Boat Club was their first boat slip until they bought a new home that included a private dock at Newport. Now, they try to rent the old slip…that’s where we come in… happy to have a place to land for a few months! David and Lanie have been very gracious hosts inviting us to join with friends and showing us the sights.
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| Our "home" away from home! |
Did you remember the BEE GEEs , the rock group of the 70”s? Turns out they immigrated from England and grew up in the Redcliffe area. The town has a whole outdoor wall of photos commemorating them! Amazing, guess a town has to claim fame from something...whatever!
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| The baby Bee Gees! |
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| A whole photo wall devoted to the Bee Gee's ...funny. |
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| Marina walking... |
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| Moreton Bay |
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| Redcliffe area is where we are on the map... |
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| Brisbane and north in the state of Queensland, where we are. |
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| Rains every afternoon with thunder and lightning! |
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| But, clears into the evening... |
More adventures to come as we explore the Queensland peninsula...
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