Near to where we live - at 99 Aitcheson Street, Moggill 4070, QLD - the river Brisbane curls its way around a huge u-shaped bend with tall gum trees lining each bank. Our house is practically at the bottom of this bend, only a few minutes walk from the Moggill Ferry, that takes cars and pedestrians across the river from bank to bank daily between 6am and 6pm. We've taken it a few times already, as pedestrians are free and it gives you a great view of the river up and downstream. We've been told there are bull sharks in the river, confined in freshwater having swum upstream from the sea and become locked in after weirs were built to control the river's flow. It's put us off swimming there even more than the murky brown water! There's been serious flooding here, most recently last year. As you walk up the hill towards home having disembarked from the ferry, you trod over a squiggly pink line scrawled 2011 across the tarmac road. It traces the high water mark from last year's devastating floods and shows an awesome rise in water levels. One of the good things to come out of the floods is a lot of rebuilding of riverbanks, with this one no exception. The council have put in a small riverbank park with enough room to play 40:40 'it' (a great chasing game I've been instructed in by the boys) as well as some fun climbing stuff. It's not usually very busy and has become a bit of a hang out for us ...