FAVOURITE THINGS FRIDAY - BRISBANE'S RIVERFIRE FESTIVAL

While I was up in Hervey Bay on Saturday our city's Spring festival called Riverfire was swinging into action.
Tony decided to go in as there was to be a flypast by some Hornets and he is a bit of an aeroplane freak
enthusiast and he took these photos for me.
As parking costs enough to warrant taking out a special bank loan these days, he caught a bus- a novelty in itself - and was delivered into the centre of town.



These Leopard trees that line the whole street are such a nice splash of green amongst the new towering buildings.

There was quite a lively festive air throughout the city

with bands playing and families out enjoying the warmer temperatures.

The flowers in the Mall were very pretty too.

He walked over to Southbank where all the action was to be later in the night with a fantastic fireworks display.



Crowds were beginning to gather along the river bank in anticipation of the airshow. 

The Performing Arts Complex's bright facade made a lovely splash of colour but the trees in front seem to be dead, perhaps they are a casualty of the floods earlier in the year.

Before long the Hornets made their appearance flying low over the city ,

making several passes, some of them upside down

until they made a spectacular fiery exit.

He decided it was getting too crowded for him and there was a long wait till the fireworks ( and he was all alone and lonesome !!) so he toddled off home.

 Last night we went back into the city to see the Laser Light Show over the river.

It was a lovely night and the lights looked very pretty on the water.

Tony was experimenting with his new camera and tripod so he set it all up on the river bank

 while I found a comfy spot on the grass and we waited for the show to start.

And what a show it was !

It was all set to music played over a loudspeaker system.

With the help of two tugboats spouting huge cascades of water from their hoses, lovely coloured lights danced through the air above the water.

They made all sorts of shapes that snaked this way and that.

Absolutely delightful on a balmy Spring night.

 When it was all over we walked to the busy restaurant precinct nearby

where we joined lots of others getting a bite of dinner ....

before it was off to the bus stop and home.

We may go back for another look before the festival finishes on the 24th.

Cheers.

PS. As you can see most of these photos are Tony's (Bravohorse !!!) but I managed to get a few with my trusty little camera in the difficult night time conditions