Mount Coot-tha

And so just that was also a big thing for those guys.

In Brisbane, mum would take us up to Slaughter Falls, which is out the back of Mount Kutha.

And we were just charged through the bush.

And there's just a love of that and a a connection with that.

Lots of displays on.

And also in Queensland, the Queensland Rose Society and the Floral Arts Society of Queensland have got together for their 2026 Spring Rose Show, and it's being held in the auditorium of Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mount Coot-tha.

Now, today it's 9 till 2.30. OK, 9 till 2.30.

Admission is only $5.

at the Auditorium in Brisbane Botanic Gardens.

That's up at Mount Coot-tha, up on the hill.

And today, 10.30 till 3.30.

Tomorrow, 9 till 2.30.

Okay, so lots of exhibitions, floral art on display, potted roses for sale.

So it's a good one, a good event.

That's up there at Mount Coot-tha in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.

The Ipswich...

There is another one opening at Mount Coosa, and I think this is the next one to open.

And I've stolen a little map from someone that I follow on Strava who did the like proposed Mount Coot-tha park run course the other day and you can see it's a steep one elevation of 256 meters so this is going to be a tough park run as you can probably imagine at Mount Coot-tha it looks like it starts and finishes up towards the botanic gardens area and then I'm going to assume goes downhill to start with this is the elevation map that I got from the person's Strava.

So it actually looks like it goes up for the first half.

You start at just under 100 metres above sea level and then you go up towards 250 metres above sea level.

And it's really good for building strength into the legs.

Yeah, so a lot of benefits.

So just go do the new Mount Coot-tha park route for your training if you're in Brisbane.

Yeah, you can do a little run walk if you want to basically make it a 2.5 kilometre hill sprint session.

And when I was auctioning and helping MC the auction of his massive collection when Len passed, a lot of the collection was bought by the Brisbane government.

And it ultimately went into a collection up in Mount Coot-tha, which I saw.

And this is back in the 80s.

And I saw the collection earlier this year during a Christmas break.

If you haven't done the Story Bridge climb, it's a very unique perspective of the city from up here.

I can see all the way, the gateway, the port of Brisbane, all the way out to Mount Coot-tha.

And

then when you open your eyes, Carla, what do you see?

trust, so much trust.

The one at the bottom of Mount Coot-tha.

That's hectic.

It's

And if you're trying to exit around it too.

Or

getting across to go to Mount Coot-tha.

Yeah.

And we did a hike up, what's the mountain in Brisbane?

Oh, Mount Coot-tha?

Mount Coot-tha, he took me up there a few years ago.

And I said, Dr. PJ, I always refer to him as Dr. PJ.

He's, again, visible in Gladstone, was on the council, owned his own dental practice here.