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#CatTravels: Walking along the South Bank

By Catherine Toth Fox • November 28, 2012 • #CatTravels

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We got a late start, but it didn’t matter.

Brisbane wasn’t waiting for us, but it still had room for stragglers.

We started walking from our hotel — we’re staying at the Sofitel Brisbane — toward Queen Street Mall, a few blocks away.

We were heading to the South Bank Parklands, an area on the southern shore of the Brisbane River that has parks, grassy areas, the Wheel of Brisbane and — get this — beaches.

About 11 million people visit South Bank Parklands each year, and it’s easy to see why. There are restaurants and shops and ice cream carts everywhere. It’s a walkable, runable, bikeable stretch, too, and folks were out and about all afternoon.

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We were mostly interested in the inner-city beaches, which were not what we had expected. (Video on this coming soon.) It was more like a hotel pool — with sand. Strange.

Now we’re on our way to Chinatown for some dim sum and then taking a river taxi back to South Bank for dinner.

Whenever I find Internet, I’ll post more photos. Thanks for being patient!

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4 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah Dave November 29, 2012 at 6:32 am

    CAT: Awaiting photos of bathroom! LOL

  • Reply M November 29, 2012 at 6:34 am

    Hello Cat!
    You found internet!

  • Reply trevor November 29, 2012 at 6:47 am

    Still got room for stranglers ?

    • Reply Catherine Toth November 29, 2012 at 10:02 am

      Yeah, yeah, it was a typo. And I couldn’t find an Internet connection to change it. Ugh!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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