Yesterday I got out before the sun got too high in the sky to put another coat on the stairs. I then cut the three treads needed to finish them off; made sure they fitted and then put a couple of coats on the bottom side of the tread. One of the treads looks a bit moth eaten but after a lick of paint it looks not too bad, and the timber still has plenty of meat left in it so it will be around for many years to come.

After a bit of lunch I headed up to Brisbane to meet Julie for our afternoon walk around the Brisbane River. When I looked at the route on Google maps it came back with a figure of about 10 km and so this should have been a couple of hours at the most. I told Julie that we only had a couple of hills to negotiate, which was true, and the rest of the walk is by the river.

At the top of Highgate Hill the line on Google Maps follows down to the west of Southbank crossing the river at that point to the North Side. But when we reached Highgate Hill I turned left to go down to the river more directly. I have cycled this route many times over the years and I’m very familiar with the area, however I didn’t quite realise that when walking, and of course not following Google the extra distance was close to 5 km. By the time we reached the river the penny dropped that we still had many more km in front of us. Julie was not too happy about this and neither was I to be honest.

My GPS tracker stopped as we came through Highgate Hill and so I don’t have an accurate distance, but basing it on the number of steps it would be around 16 km or there about. We crossed the river and the final walk along the river was fairly brisk but it was great to finally make it back to the car. We were going to go for some noodles but it was nearly 6pm by the time we got back to Julie’s place and so I headed off home.

I woke up early this morning, around 6.30 and just had to get up. I had breakfast, I was starving but tired. After breakfast the couch beckoned and I once more drifted off into the land of nod for another hour or so.

So today will be a very lazy day. The stairs will get finished tomorrow and then I’ll figure out what to do next. Still got more painting to do and another part of the retaining wall to fix.