We walked down to Regatta pier on Saturday morning, ignoring
several large lizards on the way (we are *so* over lizards), to catch the
CityCat into town. We got off at QUT, and then crossed back over the river to
spend the morning in the Maritime Museum .
The centrepiece of the museum is the River class frigate HMAS
Diamantina, which was built during WWII and saw service in the Pacific theatre
in 1945, and was also involved in the Japanese surrender. The ship is open
apart from the lower engine room deck, so we clambered all over from the bridge
and wheelhouse to the guns, which we were able to rotate and elevate, and down
through the captain’s, officers’, and ratings quarters. There were also
displays about the construction and history of the ship, and a good sense of
how crowded life was aboard a ship like this in wartime.
Also in the museum is the Ella’s Pink Lady, a pink yacht
sailed around the world by a teenage girl, Jessica Watson.
Inside the museum building itself are various models of
sailing and steamships of significance to Queensland
Afterwards we re-crossed the river on the Goodwill bridge, and
set off for the Eagle Street Pier to find somewhere to have a spot of lunch. I
had identified this area as a good place for lunch from the leaflet emporium of
yesterday, but when we got there, we ended up in a restaurant not listed in any
of the publications I’d collected. We surmised that this was due to it having
only just opened, clearly replacing one of the incumbents. It was called the
Kingsley Steak and Crabhouse, and a quick glance down the menu told us why. I
had a craving for some crab and as it was lunchtime we stuck to a simple menu
of king crab, bresaola with truffle oil, chips and spring beans, washed down
with a couple of glasses of wine. Followed by some extremely decadent desserts...and very nice it was too.
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| Vanilla, strawberry, white chocolate cheesecake |
That was about the extent of our adventure in Brisbane
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