windChalmer: Photos of Brisbane - meeting up with classmates

We booked into the Dockside Marina for a week as we wanted to see Brisbane and meet up with friends.

We took our own local guide LOL!! Lyn sailed down from Scarborough with us and stayed a couple of nights with us. We left Scarborough at 7 am and were tied up by 12.30 I think in the Brisbane River.

Lyn then suggested we go up the river in one of the red city hoppers - free little ferries. They were amazing, came every half hour and we certainly saw lots of Brisbane. Lyn was a wonderful tourist guide and took us on the free red buses, the free Springhill loop and then drove us to the Botanical Gardens out of town.

Met up with Shazz, Al, Tilden and Ken from our school class. Was great to catch up and see that they were doing great.

Our visit coincided with the Redcliff Festival first - spent a great day there watching very fast motor boat racing, jazz bands and bought some wonderful farm fresh vegetables, especially huge avocados and strawberries.

Then in Brisbane, their festival was in full progress. Ian took some great photos of the laser show which we caught the free red ferry twice to southbank.

Industry -mouth of Brisbane River

Dockside near the Marina

Coming into the mouth of the river

For Lyn = Charity Duck and Holy Cow the charter yacht.

Lantern Show at Southbanki

The Laser show was amazing - lights came from the high rise buildings and a very creatively setup barge in the middle of the river, near southbank.

How did the do the curly lights?

A coloured sphere from which music played all day.


The windChalmer in the Dockside Marina. We rolled around when the City Cat ferries roared past from 7 am to 9 pm. However, more comfortable than tied up to pile berths near the Botanic Gardens.

Free Red Ferries plough up and down the Brisbane River every half hour from 7 am to 12 pm! Was just great. We used it for shopping, to go to the movies, to south bank for the laser show and to visit with friends.