Blown Away in Brisbane
Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city. It’s the hub of Queensland culture, offering glimpses of the past and the future.
Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city. It’s the hub of Queensland culture, offering glimpses of the past and the future.
You can view the old historic windmill built by convict labour in 1828. Or you can go to the new Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art. Or take an inexpensive river ferry cruise on the Brisbane River to South Bank and its market, and and even all the way upriver to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. River ferries— CityCat, SpeedyCat and CityHopper — are regular public transport in Brisbane, along with the Brisbane Busways and an incredible 689 km of mostly electrified suburban commuter railway lines.
Up several bends in the river from downtown, the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is the world’s first and largest koala sanctuary. Established in 1927, it now shelters about seventy species of Australian native animals in a beautiful natural bush setting. Along with the koalas…
