It’s Ferry Day

The sun was shining as we left the apartment and headed for the Ferry to get us, in the first place, to the other side of the Brisbane River.

From there we took the City Cat down river to the sea, but the boat stopped after visiting a few pick up and drop off points at Bretts Wharf. As there wasn’t much to see at the wharf we stayed on board then headed back up the river and got off at Bulimba. During our trip we had heard the ferry conductor talking about good places to eat and Bulimba was discussed. We got off the Cat and headed up Oxford Street to the small, but well off town of Bulimba where there was a good choice of places to eat. We had a very nice lunch at a restaurant called ‘Licorice’ and then headed back to the ferry and continued our journey to the other end of the Cat’s route at the University of Queensland. In Brisbane it’s almost like being in Hong Kong as there are so many Asians in this country with lots of kids going to the University here.

The river journey is very interesting and we passed many old houses and many new apartment blocks. It’s a bit like Weybridge where they tear down the old houses and put up blocks of flats from 8 stories up to 40. The journey on the Cat from one end to the other lasts about 45 minutes and the ferry moves very fast indeed. At one place on the river there is a main road which runs along by the river where you can see the cars etc and we could see that we were slightly faster than the vehicles on the road.

On a previous journey on Monday we had noticed that there are a number of ‘workers’ who only have to cross the river in about 10 minutes and they are home from work. So this is a nice place to work.

Tomorrow we have to check out from the apartment we are in and head for the station where we join The Sunlander Train to Cairns. This should be great but fattening based on the menu’s we have seen and it looks similar to a cruise liner and I guess we will be without internet for the next two days.