Brisbane

Some photos I took in the capital of Queensland.

The Brisbane River, the city and the Story Bridge from the botanical gardens.

The birds are shameless scavengers.

Still in the botanical gardens, I ran into a two foot lizard.

On my second day in Brisbane I bought a new Kodak camera with 10x zoom and 7.1mp for what I thought was a bargain at AU$192. All the better to zoom in on lizards.

Later, I wandered into the Museum of Brisbane which had some modern art in it. I liked this:

…And wondered what this was:

Nearby, a quaint little church is dwarfed by modernity.

This one is merely surrounded by it:

Down by the river again, this time looking towards the botanical gardens, which are in the distance behind the boat.

On the following day I caught a “City Cat” – a passenger ferry – and went right up the river, through the city, into the suburbs and even into industrial areas near where the Brisbane enters the Pacific.

 

The “Pacific Sun” – a few miles from the mouth of the Brisbane.

I later saw this ship when I was flying over Brisbane.

When the City Cat brought me back I got off on the south bank where they have a Brisbane “eye” and a fake beach. I sat on the grass in the sunset reading a book by Niall Ferguson: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.