26th November 2010
On our last morning in Brisbane, we checked out but left our luggage at the hotel to be picked up later. We wanted to go and explore the Museum and Art Gallery before flying back home. So here's some pictures from that morning plus one video ...
My Appeal
Of course since returning Queensland and Northern NSW have been devasted by the worse floods with people lost or dead. Fundraising appeals are being carried out as we speak and I urge you all to dig deep and help those in their hour of need. We can't help them any other way right now other than donating money to help with the relief and clear up. Sending them prayers and wishes. Most of the places, we visited including Brisbane are deluged by water as Rivers burst their banks, many are homeless, lost their business and some including 4 chiildren at this present time have lost their lives.
To help donate to http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html the flood appeal. For those who can't donate on line there are a number of options. Australia post have announced money boxes will be placed in their post offices on Thursday, banks and even Coles supermarkets are taking donations. This is the best way at the moment.
Once the big clean up gets under way, the slavation army and the red cross will probably be in need of practical items like food, blankets, clothes but they will let us know. Also tradies will be required to help rebuild damaged properties.
Once the floods have sub-sided and relief has been given, people have started to re-build their lives back up, please consider taking a holiday to one of the flood hit regions and buy products locally. I ask anyone, wherever you are in the world to do something to help those devasted by the flood in Queensland and Northern NSW to do there bit.
To give you an idea of the extent of the damage - it covers an area similar to the size of Germany and France combined - Australia is a Big country and this is a Big disaster!
