Come Sunday and it was time to go and see the city. We were staying on the outskirts of Brisbane and so took the train in to the centre, walking on the boardwalk (cue me humming the tune, Every Single Time. You can't pass up a good song like that).
Brisbane has some sights that are nice, in a city kind of way. We liked this strangler fig tree, for example.
And the children liked the river when we stopped for coffee.
This is a bridge.
In the afternoon we took a ride down the river on the ferry to South Bank, which is a nice park type thing. Playgrounds abound, as do coffee shops. The highlight for all of us (those participating and those assisting) was the water park. They seem to have lots of these in Australia, and they're all pretty busy even in the winter, I do wonder how much more so they would be in summer.
Marisca discovered a love of goggles and water jets.
Tom took a little while to warm up to the idea but once he did he also had lots of fun...
... although his fun was somewhat less controlled than Marisca's!
There will certainly be more water playground photos to follow from other locations.
What else about Brisbane? Well, we're not really city people so won't be raving about it. It's definitely a nice river city and we enjoyed coffee and lunch 1 in a nice spot, and lunch 2 in another nice spot. Coffee 2 and ice cream now I think about it. So it must be ok for food as well as for playgrounds and, really, what else do you need?
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