On the city skyline

Every day, every time we walk around our apartment, we look out over the city skyline. The buildings stay the same, but the mood changes with the weather and the light.




Brisbane has a lot of rainy days, but also a lot of sparkling days like this one.

And then one day I did a bit of a double take - hang on! What on earth is that? I'm sure that wasn't always there.



Over the course of the next few hours it changed position, until finally it returned to its original position.

We talked about what it could be. Maybe an observation deck, or a revolving restaurant - but it didn't seem to have any floor to it. Maybe some sort of radar thingy .... or ??

We went and asked Mr Google - though it was hard to know what to ask. "What's that thing on the AAMI building?" didn't yield any useful results.

Then we discovered it's not really just the AAMI building, but Central Plaza.

That's when we discovered what it's for! It's so that they can wash the windows!!

Can you imagine dangling from that thing?



The other day we saw this thing, and expected to be able to see it move lower - but it never did, and the bar moved the full 360 degrees and popped back into place.

Maybe it's so new they have never had it in operation properly yet.