Last weekend was Australia’s National holiday, aptly named Australia Day. The holiday itself falls on January 26, and this year that was a Saturday. In lieu of the day, we had Monday off, and I took the chance to see a bit of the city. I haven’t seen much of it yet, since I’ve been feeling a bit obligated to sort out this whole homelessness thing of mine (I’ve been temporarily staying at a dorm on campus).

Since the rental market here is controlled by real estate companies, there was none open on Monday, briefly relieving me of that duty. So I headed down the river, to see where the City Cat ferries would go. I took a stop in Southbank, which is an inner city park with a pool made like a beach, sand and all. You can see the “lagoon” on the Our Brisbane webcam. I took a few photos that I’ll put up later.

After getting back on the ferry and riding it as far as it would go in one direction, I decided to time lapse capture the trip home. Follow the link to watch it.

This starts almost at the far eastern end of the trip. I actually started it at the very eastern end of the trip, but an unfortunate combination of wind and waves managed to soak the camera and me. I stopped to clean up and picked up on the next stop.

You can watch full screen if you click the little dot with corners on it in the bottom right of the player.

The last three stops are the most familiar to me, since they are closest to the University, and the last as you can see is actually on campus. Going down the river to the third stop takes you to Toowong, where there’s some shops and a bit of a mall. It’s also the stop to the Regatta Pub, which some of the students have visited over the years…

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