Queensland Capers: Pool Progress

The weather has been significantly better this week! Hooray!

The box and steel guys finished the box work Thursday and are commencing the steel reinforcing this week, at this stage the engineer is booked to inspect the steelwork Wednesday and the concrete sprayers booked for Thursday. Fingers crossed this time next week we will have a sprayed pool. The concrete has to then cure for two weeks before tiling and pebble work can be finished.

Looking North-west

Starting to look like a pool

North-west corner

Ready for steel.

I have been doing a fair bit of walking lately, mainly around the Mt Coot-tha forest. There are numerous walking tracks and mountain bike trails in the area. I have walked most of them now and have been enjoying the walks varying in distance from 6 - 10k, the bush is quite picturesque and it certainly makes for an enjoyable tramp, although the hills are a challenge. I haven't seen much wildlife, however today I managed to see three different Lace Monitors, this one was just a few metres in front of me when he started to climb the tree. It didn't take him long to get all the way up there!

Long way up there!

I couldn't get photos of the other two because the were super cunning and kept moving to the opposite side of the tree from me as I tried to skirt around it to take the photo. This bloke had a different strategy, just climb real high and not worry about hiding.

Safe now!

Colleges crossing is now open again so I thought I would go back and have a look at it without the water. The first thing obvious apart from the road itself was the destruction that the water had caused. The recreation area on the south side of the river was destroyed, the playground looked like it had been crushed like tinfoil.