Brisbane City Sights

November 23, 2007. We did the City Sights tour today. The tour bus included many points of interest throughout Brisbane: Post Office square (Brisbane's first general post office established in 1872), City Hall (home to the Brisbane city council), Commisariat Casino (a convict period building that was used to distribute food and tools), Riverside Center Stock Exchanges and Sunday Markets, City Windmill (built by convicts in 1828 and the first industrial building in the city), Spring Hill (once the source of the cities water supply), Roma Street Parklands (16 hectares of gardens and water features), Transit Center (built in 1986 to house the new coach and rail station), Suncorp stadium (home to the old rugby league), Mt. Coot-tha (overlooks the city), Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens (where we started), Regatta Hotel (heritage listed Regatta house built 1874), Park Road (Cafe Society precinct for shopping and dining), Museums, Southbank (cafe, shops, sandy beaches), Maritime Museum (South Brisbane Dry docks), City Lookout (at Kangaroo Point), Chinatown in Fortitude Valley (named after the ship fortitude a free immigrant ship in 1849), and Anzac Square (Shrine of Remembrance houses the eternal flame and memorial sculptures). And we saw many of the sights on the tour already from our trip downtown yesterday, but City Sights offered some commentary on the sights and allowed us to get on and off the bus throughout the day and it included access to the ferry system.

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