Monday, May 27, 2013

Walking day.


Great day for walking.
歩くには良い日だね。


I needed to go Brisbane convention centre, but before that I decided to walk along the river, because the weather made me walk.
I started from South Bank bus station, walk through the market, then walked along the river. My plan had changed. I walked to West End market via riverside, through the market and little rest at the park for having a lunch and finally arrived at Brisbane convention centre.

この日はブリスベンのコンベンションセンターに用事があったけど、その前に川沿いを歩く事に。
サウスバンクのバスステーションからマーケットを通って、 川沿いを歩いた。その間に計画を変更。最初の予定ではその足でコンベンションセンターにと思っていたけど、あまりにも天気が良く歩くには最適な日だったので、そのまま川沿いを歩いてウエストエンドへ。ウエストエンドではファーマーズマーケットがやっていて、そこを通りぬけて公園を見つけたので休憩を兼ねてお昼ごはん。食べた後は、コンベンションセンターへ…


















Train bridge. 
It seems like birds art on the support post.

電車の通る橋。
橋には鳥が川に飛び込むようなアートが。

















There was another bridge.
Under a bridge art.

もう一つの橋をくぐるとそこには壁面アートが。
アボリジニ風の生き物の絵も見られた。



It was lovely day to walk out.
I had never walked this way, so found things.
I hope find something new next walking too.

今日は歩くにはとてもいい日だった。
いつもと違う道を歩いてみるのも色々な発見があって良いね。
今度のウォーキングも新しい発見があると良いなぁ。

Buddha Birthday Festival





Festival for Buddha
ブッダ生誕祭

I went to the Buddha Birthday Festival.
The weather was very good. Nice to walking along the Brisbane river as well.

ブッダ生誕祭に行って来た。
天気も良く川沿いを歩くにはとてもいい日となった。 
















I reckon this was for Chinese Buddha festival, so there were many Chinese people who were attending the pray.

中国のブッダ生誕祭らしく、沢山の中国人がお祈りに来ていた。


 

















Golden Buddha.
The sun was hitting him, so it was very shiny.

黄金のブッダ像。
太陽の光を受けて神々しく輝いていた。 
















Pray area at the hall.
Different from Japanese Buddha.
It was interesting to see.

お祈りのホールにて…
日本のブッダ像とは違うね。 
















Starting to drop the sun... then turn on the lanterns.

日が落ち始めて、提灯にも明かりがともり始めた…

















Quite pretty at night time along the river.
I do not go out for taking picture at night time, but I should go bit more...

夜の川沿いは明かりで素敵だった。
夜に写真を撮る事は殆どないから、また行こうと思う…

Sunday, February 03, 2013

After the bad weather. 悪天候の後。




Looked at the river...
川を眺める…

It was really bad weather few days ago... Lots of places were flooding and blackout.
One day it was really nice weather, so I went out for a market. After that I decided to went down to city and walked along the river.
何日か前までとても天気が悪くて、一部の地域では大洪水になったり、停電が何日間も続いた。
天気も回復して、とある日は青空で外に出るには最高の日だった。なので、マーケットに行こうと決めた。マーケットに行ってから、ふと街に出て川沿いをのんびり歩こうと思い立った。


City view with work ship. 街をバックに船を撮る。
















There was not many debris on the river. However they were still working on the river. I saw a ship which was many debris on.
Water level was still higher than normal day. Around the river, it was almost recovered from the terrible weather few days ago.
川は思っていたほど瓦礫や流木は流れていなかった。でも、まだ川の上では、瓦礫や流木を船に乗せて仕事をしている人達がいた。
川の水量は普段より少し多かった。川の周りも荒れた天候から殆どが回復していた。

Australia day. オーストラリアの日


Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, oi, oi.
オージー、オージー、オージー。オイ、オイ、オイ。




After back from the Coolangatta, I had party at friend's house.
Yes, this day was special day which is called Australia day.
クーランガッタから帰ったこの日の夕方から、友達の家でパーティーがあった。
そう、この日はオーストラリア・デーと言ってみんなでオーストラリアをお祝いする。


Lamb burger. ラムバーガー















It was really yummy burger. My friend cooked for us and made myself into a burger.
I had very nice time. Thank you for inviting me my friend.
とても美味しい、ラムのハンバーガーだった。友達が料理して、自分達でオリジナルのハンバーガーを作る。
とっても楽しい日だった。パーティーに招待してくれてありがとう。

Trip with parents. 親との旅行。

My parents coming to Australia.
お父さんとお母さんがオーストラリアに遊びに来たよ

We went to Gold Coast, Brisbane and Coolangatta.
The weather in last few days were not so good, because of ex-tropical cyclone. However I had really nice time, so as my parents.
今回の旅は、ゴールドコースト、ブリスベン、クーランガッタ。
最後の数日は、サイクロンだった雲の影響で天気があまりよくなかったけど、とても良い旅になった。


Walked around Surfers paradise.
サーファーズパラダイス散策。  



From Q1 building. Q1ビルからの眺望。














Beach at Surfers paradise.サーファーズパラダイスのビーチ

















Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
カランビン動物園

Lamb ラム















Lamb was at shaving sheep.
ラムは羊の毛刈りのショーの所にいたよ。

Kookaburra ワライカワセミ

Walked around the forest area, we found wild Kookaburra.
森のエリアを歩いているとワライカワセミを発見。

Kangaroo カンガルー















Trying to sleep in the middle of the path...
道の真ん中で、のんびりお昼寝しようとしていたよ。

Koala コアラ
 



















Very cute. Baby Koala was on mum or dad...
赤ちゃんがお父さんかお母さんの上に乗ったよ。かわいいね。


Walked around the condominium.
泊った所の周辺をお散歩。

Frangipani プルメリア















It was so pretty.
散歩道に、綺麗に咲いていたよ。

We arrived the Mermaid beach.
マーメイド海岸に到着。 

Jellyfish クラゲ















We saw many jellyfish like this at the beach.
I thought bluebottle, but it seems like called Jelly Blubber. I checked online.
同じクラゲがいっぱい浜に打ち上げられていた…
ネットで調べたら、ゼリー・ブラバーという種類みたい。

Attention!! 海の状態を知らせる看板。



















Memory...  思い出。



















You can see the Surfers paradise beach faraway. It was nice memory...
遠くにサーファーズパラダイスの海岸が見える。良い思い出だったなぁ…


We went to Brisbane. Stayed at my friend's house. Thank you so much.  
ブリスベンの旅。お友達の家に泊らさせてもらったよ。ありがとう。

Story Bridge. ストーリー橋















We took a City Cat to see around Brisbane.
Under the big bridges, cliff of kangaroo point, nice riverside houses, power house, etc...
We had nice drink at Max Brenner in Portside Wharf.
シティーキャットと言うフェリーに乗ってブリスベンの街を見学。
大きな橋をくぐったり、カンガルーポイントの崖を見たり、川沿いに建つ綺麗なおうちを眺めたり、パワーハウスと言う古い建物を見たりと色々出来たよ。
ポートサイド・ワーフにあるマックス・ブレナーで美味しい飲み物を…


My friend drove up to the Mt Coot-tha.
Very beautiful view from the lookout. We also had dinner at restaurant. It was nice view as well. After the dinner we went back to lookout to see night view.
友達が車を運転してクーサ山まで連れて行ってくれた。
展望台からはとても良い景色が見られた。景色を見た後はレストランでの食事。レストランからも良い景色が見られたよ。
晩御飯を食べた後、夜景を見に展望台へ… 

Before the sunset. 日が暮れる前…



Night view. 夜景。
















On next day, we took buses to go to Mt Coot-tha botanic garden.
It was little shower, but not all the time which was good.
次の日はバスを乗り継いでクーサ山植物園へ。
小雨が時々降っただけで、大雨にならなくて良かった。

Lotus flowers. 綺麗な睡蓮。















There were beautiful lotus flowers at the pond.
沢山の睡蓮のお花が咲いていたよ。

Unknown fruit. 良く分からない実。















I am not sure what fruits were they. This fruit was every where around this fruit.
There was a girl with family. She said 'Tomatoes'.
何の実か分からないけど、この実の周りには同じ物がな沢山落ちてた。
向かいから女の子を連れた家族が 歩いてきた。女の子はお母さんに「トマトが落ちてるよ。」って言っていた。


This botanic garden is really big. There are two part of garden. We talked both.
There was a little lake too. Not only pond.
この植物園は、2つのエリアに分かれていてとても大きい。でも、両方とも散策した。
ここには、池だけでなく小さな湖もある。


Lake with totem pole. 湖水にたたずむトーテム・ポール















It was bit of rain while we had lunch, but after stopped, so we could take nice photo from lookout.
昼ごはんを食べている時に雨が結構降ったけど、食べ終わった頃には止んでいた。だから、展望台からは上手く写真を撮る事が出来た。

View from lookout. 展望台から市内を望む…
















We moved to Coolangatta for next day. Because of the ex-tropical cyclone, the weather was miserable. Sometime heavy rain since day before the night. (We were lucky it was not heavy rain while we were at botanic garden.) Also lucky that when we went to bus stop from friend's house, rain was stopped. We took about 3 hours to Coolangatta. 
クーランガッタに次の朝出発。前日の夜から、サイクロンだった雲の影響で大雨が…(植物園に行っている時に大雨にならなくて良かった。)幸運にも友達の家からバス停まで、雨が止んでいてくれた。バスと電車に揺られながらクーランガッタまで約3時間の旅。

We were at hotel and had cupper at our room. Then we decided to go out, before gets dark.
We walked around the seaside where had footpath. Sea was really angry. There were white waves and some were high.
It was very strong wind. Shower was a little bit which was lucky. It was only just went the hotel, the rain was starting hard.
ホテルの部屋で少し休憩。そして、日が暮れる前に散策に行く事に決めた。海岸沿いに歩道が作られていて、そこをのんびり歩いた。海はと言うと、白く波立っていて、中には結構高い波もあった。
一部の所では、風がとても強かった。時より雨も降っていた。ホテルに着く前位に激しい雨になった。海岸沿いを歩いている時でなくて良かった。

The sea condition was bad. 海は荒れていた。















There were some surfers were trying to catch waves. Some part of ocean was really white by waves.
この荒れた海の中、波に乗ろうと何人かのサーファーの人達がいた。
 
Beach at Coolangatta. クーランガッタの海岸









I reckon we were really lucky that the weather was not too bad.
Day after, it was heavy rain and strong wind. Some part of Australia were flooding and blackout for a while...
My parents were lucky too. If they took off Australia next day, lots of flights were cancelled.
今回の旅は結構天候に恵まれていた方かも。次の日からは天候が荒れに荒れて、一部では洪水の被害や数日間停電になっていた。
お父さんとお母さんもラッキーだったと思う。オーストラリアを出発した翌日は殆どの飛行機が欠航だった…

New starts.新しく始めます。

I decided to write Japanese as well.
It will take bit longer to update. However it will be a good.

新しく日本語でも更新を始めます。
時間が少し掛るけど、今まで写真しか見れなかった人も楽しめるようになったら良いなぁと思います。

Friday, January 04, 2013

International Space Station

ISS night


Last night was most brightest day to see ISS (International l Space Station). However in my area was overcast, so I could not see any at all.

I asked Planetarium where I found this news on Facebook. They said the time is twilight, so it may not bright as last night.

Last night I could not see. And this time is hard to see from the house, because of lots of trees. My homestay mother drove for me to MT Coot-Tha. First was near the TV station, but we were not sure, we can see or not. Then she drove up to the lookout.
It was bit brighter, because of the city lights. However I could find one light that is moving.

Yes, finally I saw it.

I'm so happy to see it, because I was really looking forward to seeing it.

That is my photo which was best one from my photo collection tonight.
Just under the Jupiter. 



















F 8.0
SP 10"
ISO 80

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

New Year Eve and New Year

The end of the year and New year.

Finale of 2012 was really gorgeous night.
Many things were done in the end with friends.

Took photos of bridge.
Time past, changed scenery.
What a lovely... 
















 
























Bar was served free finger meals.
Spring roll, calamari, prawns, prawn sushi, trout and raw oysters.
Most of them were seafood. I really enjoyed the meals. That what I missed in Australia and the end of the year I had these in free of charge.
Belly dance and fire show were great as well.
Moved to near the pub, but it was reserved by events, so we couldn't go in. After one drink, we moved to another pub. Last time of pub crawl the year.
Dancing at pub with friends were great.
Finale of the night was fireworks.
I took photos, but not great to put in here... sorry.
It was gorgeous. Red,blue, yellow. etc... Lovely coloured fires were in the sky. 
I really appreciated to my friend who was invited me.
I could done so many things in one night.
What a nice finale.
Especially living in overseas, since Christmas to New year is one of the most loneliness time if there is no family or relatives around...
I am so lucky to have such a lovely friends who can spend with...
Thank you my friends. Thank you God for giving me a gorgeous night...

Christmas Eve and Christmas

Merry Christmas!!

I spent a time with friends, one of friend's family and relatives.
It was lovely time.

On Christmas Eve, we went a bus tour for Christmas illuminations.
There were so many houses lighting up.
Play music, toy tank engine, Jesus Christ, Santa, presents and so on...

One of lovely illumination

1 sleeps til Santa
































In the morning of Christmas day...
 
We had lovely pancakes.

Fruits and cream















After we opened presents, we had lunch...
Lot of yummy meals.

Everyone brought meals















Gorgeous table setting




















It was a lovely Christmas Eve and Christmas...
Thank you so much for everyone.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Market day...

South Bank

 I got invitation from my Japanese friend who used to work in centre where I am working.

It was lovely weather to walk around. Before I went to the market, I was walking around the riverside. I had lunch near the GoMA.
Not many people were walking around the area, so I had really nice relaxing time.

There were few views from my lunch spot. 

Interesting architecture















River view



















 After the lunch I had little bit walk around the riverside...

Green and blue















I walked to the market. Market was not really big, but there were some artist's shop.

These are some arts from my friend (Erin)...

Art works...















Doll...



















Erin makes many things...
Her artwork feel warmth of the heart, lovely feeling and relaxing mind...

I will leave her blog address and online shop links...

Erinswindow
http://erinswindow.blogspot.com.au/

Online shop
http://www.etsy.com/shop/erinswindow

Brisbane Open House

Special Day

 It was Brisbane Open House day.
Many places were open to public. Most of the places were free entry.
I found this event day before the night, so I could not go few places, because some places were need to book.
Even thought I could go lot of places and see the secrets. I learned history and behind the story.
The weather was little bit hot day. However great day out for taking photos.

There were some photos from the day...


Albert Street Uniting Church

Stained-glass















 It was a bright day, so stained-glasses were shiny and light in to the church...


I found another church...

St Andrews Uniting Church

Roof tiles















 We could go around almost freely entire the church.
I found this little back porch are...

Inside was nice arch shaped open space.

Pipe organ and altar















 When I was walked around the church, organ player was starting play pipe organ. At first I was actually just next to the pipe organ. I was sat on a chair near by. I listened sound of the pipe organ. I have never hear pipe organ really close to me. It was few meter away from the pipe organ.
After I moved to the main area which many benches are located. I listened the music from the pipe organ. It was really relaxing and felt something special.


I walked many places which I can not put photos... Sorry.

Queensland Maritime museum

The end of the day, I went to Queensland Maritime Museum.
Usually it cost some to enter this place, but this day was special, so it was free to enter.

 I walked into a ship called Diamantina.
It was interesting to see he inside the ship as well as clothes people were wearing.
 
Uniform















Special day...
Open to public, under the ship.

I could walk bottom of the dock.
From the ground, we still see the size of the ship. However from the under was different world. I actually felt the scale of the ship. 
It was great experience. I am not sure how to explain this feeling, but I really enjoyed walking under the ship.

One of the screw















Museum staff told me a spot where I should take...

Tip of the ship















Usually we can not see this part, because under the water or not open to public.


This day I had really amazing experiences.
If I were here next year, I really want to go again.

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Photography day.

Brisbane City Botanic Garden

It was lovely weather, so I decided to do photo shooting.

I just started to walk in the botanic garden...
I found interesting piece of wood...

Empty inside...















Wondering around then found something again...
I could not see it, so I walked closer.

Something written...



















When I up my head, it was a nice view.
I can see a Kangaroo Point.



















Back to botanic garden...
Walked around found some kind of creature.

Can you find it??
Creature is on the rock...


















Interesting gardening art.
Can you see them??

 Happy yellow snail.















Dinosaur or Snake















Walking in the botanic garden, found something important...

Memories of flooding.

Top 1974
Middle square on the line 2011



















The weather was good, so I found shiny object...

Dark and Bright


















Gate to the heaven...
 

















It is botanic garden...
I have not introduced much flower yet.

Cactus flowers...
Pretty orange flowers. 
 













Big flower gardens.
Part of this... All together looks like the sun.














Pretty flowers...
Pink trumpet tree.
















My favourite photography of the day...

Calm moment...























It was lovely day to go out.
Nice relaxing time at gorgeous botanic garden...
Thank you for giving me a happy and calm day...