Yesterday we traveled from Biggera Waters to Morayfields, both suburbs of Brisbane. Colin and Rita, who drove us here, say that the slogan for Brisbane is "beautiful today, perfect tomorrow." And that has certainly described the weather we've experienced so far. It was a beautiful drive yesterday but despite all the signs warning of kagaroo and koala crossings we saw neither. We dropped Tegan off at her house (see picture) and then continued to Morayfields.
Now we're staying with my Uncle Bob, Aunt Jenny and cousins Jill and Lesley. They have 5 acres of property--two acres of yard with mostly native fruit and other trees and then the remaining area which is left fallow and leads up to a dam. We took a walk through the yard with Bob and Jenny identifying all the trees--African tulip (see picture), camphor laurel, bananas, several types of lemons (including the sweet lemonade) and oranges (mandarin, naval and valencia), mangoes, ficus, ice cream bean tree, macademia nuts and jaboticoba. I was pleased to try the jaboticoba (see picture of berries) since I had read about it on a website about exotic tropical fruits. The fruit--seen in a picture above--are grape-sized with one large seed and a relatively inedible skin. The flavour was grape-like with a bit of black current and blackberry mixed in. It's not a fruit that I would regularly eat but it was great to try. Jenny gave me a jar of homemake jaboticoba jam.
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