Friday - River CruiseWe had a bit of a lie in before heading off for the day.
The plan was to jump on the City Cat & cruise the river for the day & have lunch somewhere along the way.
Mum dropped us down at the river at the Regatta hotel. We were lucky enough to walk straight onto a cat & we were off down river toward the city.
The city reaches are littered with bridges of all shapes & sizes including the new bridge below that will connect the north to south bypassing the heart of the city.
The next bridge along is the rail bridge.
This horrible thing below is the new foot bridge. It is so ugly! Stupid arty architect students. The question is who let them get away with it? Remember contemporary doesn't need to mean ugly peoples.
Adjacent to the CBD is South Bank. It's come such a long way since it original development for Expo '88. The new ornament, as is the case in many world cities now that "Big Pricks" are out of fashion, is the big Ferris wheel. The world went mad while we were in Canada starting with the London Eye. When we got back, Perth & Brisbane both had one. Weird.
This bridge is actually functional. It connects South Bank to The QUT campus at Garden's Point. Coincidentally, it connects the university to the pubs & clubs end of South Bank. Suspiciously convenient don't you think?
