River Fire

We headed up to the park on top of Highgate Hill (just up the road from our place) yesterday arvo to catch a glimpse of `Brisbane's best night out'. The river fire is a festival which culminates with a fireworks display and fuel dump-and-burn by an F111. The whole thing takes place down at Southbank which you can see quite well from our little park. We rocked up around 2 to get a spot and spent some time chatting to other locals including two of our neighbours.

The rotunda filled up pretty well later on in the afternoon.

The RAAF put on some nice entertainment with their formation flying.

Richard and Sarah (friends who have also moved up from Melbourne recently) joined us later in the afternoon.

The F111 fuel dump-and-burn was pretty impressive, it lit up the entire sky over Brisbane.

The fireworks went for a long time and were timed to music which was simulcast on the radio. It reminded me of the old sky show they used to have in Melbourne.

I'm paying for last night today as my cold has really come on in full force. It is a bit surprising given that we actually got a pretty early night. Oh well good thing it is Sunday and I can stay in bed all day surfing the web.