About 1 and half hours drive from Brisbane is Queens park situated in East Toowoomba
Queens park is also home to the Heritage list Toowoomba Botanical Gardens established 1875
During the month of September these gardens are part of the Toowoomba Carnival of flowers unfortunately its too early in the year now for the longest running floral event of its kind in Australia.
The Old Lindsay Street arched entrance.
Also home to some pretty cool play ground equipment.
I would have liked to have a go on this one myself.
I had forgotten they used to actually use stream rollers like this to make roads.
A collection of Australian Native grass tree Xanthorrhoea plants.
They must of had a little bit of rain over night but it soon dried out.
Harding Ave path.
Inside the Botanic gardens
A great place for a parkrun
The parkrun first timers brief. Black and white photo by parkrun volunteer photographer.
First lap and second laps straight ahead, then finish to to right on the grassed oval.
and just follow the arrows around the park past the old Navel Cannon and Alfred Thomas memorial.
First lap done, the parkrun volunteer's and volunteer photographer make everyone feel like a winner. Photo by parkrun volunteer photographer.
The course is very picturesque and pretty fast over all as most of the hills and corners are gradual.
The parkrun course map used to brief first timers so they don't get lost. Start on the green marker then twice around the concrete path, anti clock wise, marked in blue then peel off to finish on the red marker. We would happily revisit this parkrun and try to get a faster time.