Maple Images: New Farm

Jamie had done some exploring whilst I was at work and had taken the City Cat down to New Farm. He spotted the free bbq's there and decided that we should take a trip on the next sunny day that we both had off work.

It turned out to be a about 3 weeks before we both had a sunny day off together, but last Sunday we did. Which just happened to coincide with the 'World press Photo 2012' exhibition that was taking place in the Brisbane Powerhouse gallery in New farm - good timing!

http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

We had decided to make our burgers from scratch whilst we were there so we packed our cool bag with micemeat, garlic, oliveoil, onions, bread & cheese, some pepsi max and Bundy Rum and we were all set. Headed to the Southbank terminal to catch the city cat.

Southbank from the riverside.

You can purchase a 'Go Card' if you're going to be traveling on the cities public transport frequently. It works on the trains, buses and city cats. You can purchase them from the train or bus stations and top up as you use them. You 'Touch on' when you get on the bus/train/ferry and 'Touch off' when you reach your stop. Your fare is automatically calculated. It gives a discount on the regular fare price and as they don't do return tickets here, which I find bizarre, do people only travel in one direction here, or never go home...?

Anyway public transport is good and runs regularly. I would definitely recommend using it. I have even been converted to using the bus!

Its about a 30 minute cruise along the river to New Farm and the view is lovely.

Jetskiers tried to race us.... unsurprisingly they won!

Upon arriving in New Farm to our dismay its was extremely busy. Everyone was out to enjoy the sunshine. Groups of families had emptied their kitchen cupboards of all their condiments and commandeered all the bbq stations!

A girl and her dog enjoying the viewing.

We (or rather I) decided that we should check out the photography exhibition and by the time we were finished hopefully we could start cooking, so we headed to the powerhouse.

The World Press Photo 2012 exhibition was superb. A brilliant collection of photojournalism. In my opinion the photographs from the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami are breathtaking. No matter

how many times I see them I can't begin to comprehend the devastation that is left behind.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/gallery/2012-world-press-photo

A great travelling exhibition that you should see if you have the opportunity!

Unfortunately the afore mentioned families had cracked open some beers and had no intention of moving so we jumped back onto the city cat. As we were approaching Mowbray Park I spotted some BBQs not in use so we jumped off and Jamie started cooking!