A beautiful day. The Brisbane sun is much more tolerable when you are moving through the water on your vessel, away from the sludge of the river. For those of you who don’t know, the Gold Coast Seaway is this weird channel (one of quite a few) that runs from Moreton Bay all the way […]
Brisbane
Brisbane to Southport
It’s an oddly comforting feeling turning up in places that you have some familiarity with. True, we often don’t penetrate further than a kilometre or so inland, but we do have to forage for supermarkets, boat parts, bulk food shops, libraries etc and this means that we get a reasonable knowledge of the area we […]
Brisbane
A brief stopover in Brisbane was what was planned – long enough to catch up with the Almost-Bus-Dwelling-Cousin and get a sail fixed. However, the aforementioned cousin texted me just after we’d gone over the Wide Bay bar – there was some work for me in Brisbane – so 24 hours later, we were motor […]
Brisbane to Gold Coast Seaway
We left Brisbane at daybreak, found a 24 hour fulel dock at City Gate Marina, dropped $120 on diesel/petrol and filled our totally empty water tanks. It felt good to be on the move. The longer I was in Brisbane, the more I liked it, but I because simultaneously less and less enaboured of the […]
West End Markets & Brisbane Open House
The past weekend was a blast, albeit a rather tiring blast. At West End Markets (where we travel to by dinghy) we scored fruit and veg bargains… Bananas – $1 a kilo Pineapples – $1 each Avocados – 3 for $6 Vine tomatoes – $3 a kilo Green beans – $1 a kilo Plus GF […]
Brisvegas
Unintentionally we arrived in the school holidays, meaning there were library activities aplenty… but there was also the scourge of the homeschooler – Other Kids Everywhere. We like the other kids, we do – but in horde proportions? Only just tolerable. Yesterday, however, Queensland children Went Back To School. We…went to the State Library, the […]
City City City
Moored in Brisbane we are in a perfect position – to my right I can see the botanic gardens, to my left is a restaurant, the cliffs and a walkway. Each time we have stood in a city street and wondered where the library… the bookshop… the supermarket is, someone has stopped and asked if […]
Inskip Point to Brisbane – an overnighter…
We spent two or three nights in Pelican Bay – a tiny spot near Inskip Point where the ferry takes 4WD’s to and from Fraser Island. We were waiting for benign conditions to cross back over the Wide Bay Bay – a spot that has claimed its share of vessels. We motored over the bar […]