FACILITIES

• Accessible path to the picnic table and water bubbler connected to the footpath along May Street
• Shaded playground on softfall surface, with climbing challenges, horizontal ladder, slide, a nest swing
• Separated stand-alone double swing 
• Picnic area under established trees overlooking the play areas and park bench on the opposite side
• Exercise equipment: sip up bench and stretching pole 

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Who is Lores Bonney?

Maude Rose (Lores) Bonney was one of the most remarkable flyers of her time.

Aiming to be the first woman to fly from Australia to England, Bonney learned how to overhaul engines and had her aircraft modified for the journey. In April 1933 she left Brisbane. Ten days later, caught in a tropical storm, she attempted to land on the coast of an island off Thailand. As she approached a beach, a herd of water buffalo walked into her path, forcing her to land too close to the sea. Her plane overturned and came to rest in the water. Remaining unperturbed, she managed to free herself from her harness and get to shore. She had the plane salvaged and shipped to Calcutta, India, for repairs. On the 25 of May she resumed her flight and on the 21st of June landed at Croydon, England.

In April 1937 Bonney took off from Brisbane and travelled via Indian Ocean littoral countries to Cairo and thence to Cape Town, arriving on the 18th of August. She was the first person to fly from Australia to South Africa.

In 1949 she ceased flying because her eyesight no longer met the required standard.

From 1934 to 1939, Bonney had been Australian governor of the Women’s International Association of Aeronautics. In World War II she served on the Queensland executive of the Women’s Voluntary National Register. Between 1954 and 1956 she presided over the Queensland branch of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association; the national body awarded her its Nancy Bird trophy (1981) and the State branch established a trophy in her name.