Saying goodbye to Brisbane and the Gold Coast

It's the end of my time here in Queensland now, and so before leaving Brisbane (I'm flying back to Melbourne from Coolangatta so I'm heading back to the Gold Coast again first) I had one last dose of eastern water dragons.  My friend and I went out for coffee at a gardening shop close to her home and while I was calming sitting there, minding my own business and sipping my coffee, these two little guys ran across the deck we were sitting on and over my feet.  One of them disappeared over the edge of the deck into the greenery below while the second one took up vigil, almost directly underneath my chair, to wait for his friend.

Not a bad way to start a morning is it --- I'm getting my morning coffee and saying "goodbye" to Burleigh at the same time.  It's Good Friday today and these folks are definitely taking advantage of what is always considered the last weekend of the summer season.  And depending on the state, Easter weekend also marks the start of school holidays so for some there's a two week holiday ahead of them, not just a four-day weekend.

And then this is the friend who came to visit while I was having breakfast this morning.

And now it's time to say goodbye to Queensland as I head back down to Melbourne for the Easter weekend and then back up to Wodonga to see the gang there again as it is school holidays now for them.