Scout

I spent the afternoon with Eloise strapped into the back of the car scouting out locations from which to espy the fireworks which will light up the city tomorrow.

We mooched around Grange on the city-side of the hill then down to Ashgrove and Paddington to some likely looking spots, and there are some decent views but you need to be camped out in front of someone's house, which wouldn't be ideal.

We were thinking of going up to Mount Coot-tha so we went up there and checked it out, and indeed the view would be very good, but Nicole was talking to some people at work amd guess what, everybody else will have the same idea too. So I checked the possibilities of the road leading up there, but nothing doing I think, too many trees.

When we got back I was talking to the neighbour Peter and he said "I know where you can go that's only 400 metres from here and it'll knock the socks off anything else" and he went and got his keys and drove us up to this hidden-away covered reservoir on a hill not far from where we live. It has 360 degree views of all the city, and we looked up the D'Aguilar Mountains and out across to Moreton Bay, then South to the city.

It looks like a likely spot. 400 metres seems a bit hopeful, but it's definitely walking distance.