By Subhangi Devi Dasi
Every year over 100,000 people line the streets of Towoomba in Queensland Australia for the Grand Floral Street Parade. This year on the 17th Sept Iskcon Bhakti Centre Gold Coast participated with our Rathyatra cart. Jaganath, Subhadra and Baladev were so well recieved that we won first prize. The theme is flowers so who does flowers better than the Hare Krishnas? The cart was decorated by Sukla Devi Dasi, Rasarani Devi Dasi and Dhruva Das who worked on it for 5hours before the parade. So many people were clapping and chanting and dancing as the cart passed by with more than 50 devotees chanting the Maha Mantra, dancing and pulling the cart. Thanks to the efforts of our Devotee community who enthusiastically try to please Srila Prabhupad by spreading the holy name far and wide. The Rathyatra cart was built by Janmejaya Das our own 'Visvakarma'. Organisers were Jamalarjuna Das, Radharanipriya Devi Dasi, Madhavananda Das, Lochananada Das, Satyaraj Das and Madhu Mangala. It takes a mammoth effort to coordinate.