Not quite what really happens is the trucking companies pay of lobby groups to call for roads

read the history of Urungan station, interesting.

Yep! Spot on 😢

@ashthegreat1 thanks indeed for that! I have so much fun making these

Id love to see yr work on Macleay Island and the other SMBI’s. Their stories are rich and need telling 👍

yeh, this dude is good......does his research and impressive video footage and topic (and editing / production).....walking the suburbs gives real validity. Brisbane has some real shitty history and some real shitty boring land mass / suburbs. I live in Sunshine Coast now, but I lived in Brisbane for 50 years (Woolloongabba (when Norman Hotel still served beer through a hole on Ipswich Rd), Park Ridge (1980s), Holland Park West, Belmont, Holland Park, Upper Mt Gravatt, Boronia Heights, Salisbury, Coopers Plains, Toowong, Ascot, Clayfield, Coorparoo, Wishart, Camp Hill, Kenmore Hills, Mt Ommaney, Chelmer, Bulimba). I drove Cabs in the mid 90s for 3 years. WalkaboutWithRob should hire me on a retainer (I'll be happy with a pie and iced coffee for the day). 😅😅🤣

@ASCM thank you most kindly. Really glad you got something out of it.

@shellebelle53 I really did have fun with this one! The first day was a bit flat with all the dull weather, but I was getting good stuff, but the next day's filming was bright and sunny and I was beside myself with joy. Doing what I love doing, being free and exploring and learning and sharing it with others. Really glad you enjoyed this one and thanks so much for the cool feedback. Now that I can identify dingbats, I will add them to my atrocity list.

@walkaboutwithrob it definitely translated through to your video and it was lovely to see 😊

@SunshineSomeone671 I don't know about an avalanche, more like pocket money but every bit helps.

@sandramackin9817 thanks!

@yvonneb2327 thanks! I too am from Sydney.

@margrietoregan828 I had a lovely lunch there last Saturday. Couldn't have been better!

That was a corner store when I was young, I used to get my "5 for one cent" lollies from there...!

@anthonykennedy5324 You're welcome mate! Had fun making this one.

Nicely caught - gotta tie all those televised news media reports, lol

@ninjamoves3642 Oh, when was it established? I always thought the first European cemetery in Queensland was at Eagle Terrace in the City. That was established in 1825, the year the settlement from Redcliffe moved down to the Brisbane River.

@@walkaboutwithrob Cleveland was for many months seen as the site of the 1st settlement before they chose the Brisbane site. There is a small park called Scotts Park which has a few dozen gravesites most unmarked. The Eagle Tce site would be of similar age but the Cleveland site might be bit older. Scotts Park is Heritage listed

@@ninjamoves3642 I'll have to disagree with you this. The Cleveland Pioneer Cemetery aka Scott Street Park was founded in 1858, thirty-three years after the founding of the first cemetery at Eagle Terrace in the City. If the criteria for the oldest cemetery is those that are still in existence, then the Nundah Cemetery predates the Scott Street cemetery as it was begun in the 1840's.

@@walkaboutwithrob a real cemetery that dates back the dawn of time try the strip of bush between Stretton & Toohey Forest .. the area behind Sunnybank Rugby is an ancient burial ground for Jagera ..along Bulimba Ck....the first europeans to step foot on Queensland happened at GJ Walter Park according to whats written on a plaque down there on the foreshore

@@ninjamoves3642 Who were these first Europeans to set foot at the GJ Walter Park?

Thank you!

@janeixtar4498 thank you so much for your kind feedback. It seems like Gipps wasn't the only person to get stuck in the mud there! Great fish and chips at the Point and I've recently dined again at the Courthouse. Still quite posh - and the food was delicious. So keen to go back!

Deal me in. @@walkaboutwithrob

Thanks!!

He’s done Warwick :)

@SteveMack Yes I walked along Middle Street so would have passed where your shop once was. I do recall seeing the Fish on Fire shop too. I'm enjoying my time here; nice house on a canal. You must have some historic family photos of the area.

Unfortunately no, as my sister only moved there within the last 20 years.

Thanks! No video as yet about Caboolture, though I am keen to this year.

In my language, a dingbat is a lady in her mid 60's to mid 70's who is ostensibly full of life and goes out for long walks in sweat pants and designer jackets, but spends most of their time gossiping and pushing in in cafe shop customer lines.

Yeah odd..

I was in a joyous mood that morning...

Railways are a useful mark in the landscape to help learn how an area has changed over time. Though the tracks and stations may be gone, they are remembered in things like street names or how the land has been reshaped.

​@@walkaboutwithrob very true. however that does sound like a long way of saying 'i am indirectly interested in railways'.

@@Emilyp4082 Nah. Train lines are embedded in the landscape just like roads, paths, buildings and so on. They are part of the story like everything else. But no more fascinating to me that than those other elements. Cross my heart.

​@@walkaboutwithrob i will be continuing to investigate this matter further

Cleveland station is not a good place to go for the public loo, trains have on more one occasion slid on leaves up into that section of the station. Though the station is a good place to sit for a light show in a lightning storm as you get to see the library and council buildings getting repeatedly stuck by lightning

I think you missed the point...it failed at becoming what is now Brisbane City. Yes Cleveland in its own right is thriving but it is not the city that it was intended to be.

@@kidfreejones I think you also miss the point. It was Ipswich that was aiming to be the capital in place of what is now Brisbane city. Cleveland was only intended to be its port. It is the same as the current Port of Brisbane, while Brisbane city is the administrative center. The biggest failure was Ipswich, because it failed to become the administrative center. Cleveland would have been a poor choice for a port as it turns out, because while suited to the smaller ships of the sail era, it would have become obsolete as ship sizes started to increase, and would have probably needed to be moved to the mouth of the Brisbane River eventually.

@@artistjoh fair points

Not yet but keen to explore there

Interesting... My son lives a couple of houses away from them on Moreton Island.

@@abettermankind9761 cool

Roflmao! “Dingbats” are definitely worse than magpies! Oh wow that made me laugh - “dingbats” is an expression I haven’t heard anyone use in bloody donkeys years! Are Dingbats just frivolous and uncouth!? Now surely, that has to be the real referendum question!

@@1ihws Sounds like a good idea...except the $400 million cost of a referendum.

@@AussieJohnny well thats what happens when people are fuckheads and have and use all the wrong information, with no permission to do so in the first place, isn’t it “dear” … stupid people often think they can fool other stupid people, and sometimes they even manage to completely fool the clever ones too!

@rmar127 yes, that's the man.

@@walkaboutwithrob oh cool. I love researching railway history. Not so much because I’m into trains, but more from a point of view of how the railway networks influenced the development patterns of the early settlers. For instance there are now towns quite a few miles away from a previous settlement bearing the same name as when the railways came through, the new site was better for the alignment of the railway.

@@walkaboutwithrob have you done any videos on the abandoned Brisbane valley or the old Beaudesert lines

@@rmar127 I touched upon the Beaudesert line in my video about that town.

and Biggenden?

All good Cleveland doesn't want people who's minds are swung by a single strangers video Ciao bella !

best pool in redlands

nope,... Langlands at Coorparoo or interschool comps at Chandler...

Are you able to access any sort of accommodation, or do you sleep rough most nights?

@@walkaboutwithrob limited accommodation so mostly out under the stars so to speak but the people are lovely and it’s a rather nice area in general so I find it as enjoyable as one can in such a predicament