We spent the day pottering. First to Big W looking for a specific cleaning product for the watermaker, then found that store didn't have it in stock. John Uber'd to a brewers shop to buy it. This afternoon we took Hunter and went for a walk along the waterfront and back via the Botanical Gardens. It's a beautiful, well kept garden with all kinds of exotic tropical plants and trees there. The most impressive are two massive Banyan trees growing just by QUT. One of them covers 1.5 hectares. They are breathtakingly beautiful and huge.

This evening we have just experienced a fierce thunderstorm. Hunter usually takes them in his stride but not tonight. One loud crash and bright strike which seemed almost right above us sent him running to hide on our bunk.

We may move downriver tomorrow to the river mouth and are planning to leave Brisbane and sail north towards Bundaberg on Saturday. We will decide where to stop, or not, on the way up there. We are keeping an eye on a cyclone which is forming in the far north, which may affect our passage north.

More tomorrow. John and Ginni