Brisbane River Cruise

The past few days Dad and his partner have been in Brisbane visiting. Yesterday we went on a river cruise of the Brisbane river, which was really nice. We haven't had much time to do much touring around Brisbane ourselves as we have not really had the money so it was nice to do something touristy and see a little bit of Brisbane from the water!

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Cyclone Marcia has been visiting us in Queensland for the past 3 days or so. Although thankfully down in Brisbane we haven't been caught in any bad or destructive winds, the rain has been endless!
We have spent Thursday, Friday and this morning (Saturday) bunkered down in the house as its just been bucketing down!
The cyclone has mainly broken up by now, but what is left of it is moving towards Brisbane this morning. The Bureau has predicted heavy rainfalls and chance of severe thunderstorms. So again, we stay inside and wait. I don't really have any photos (other than this one from Thursday night) and a little video i just took outside the door.
We are safe and hoping the rain eases up soon!

Weekend Riding

Saturday was quite a nice day here in Brisbane, not too hot - fairly warm and dare I say it, pleasant weather. We started our Saturday with a visit to the West End Davies Park Market, had some cheap breakkie (potato rosti with eggs and salmon, yum!) and bought out produce for the week. We then decided to go for a ride out to South Bank, we havn't really been out there much and wanted to check it out. It's a lovely bike ride along the river, which is nice not competing with cars for road space. We checked out Streets Beach, which is a man-made beach on the river front (strange Brisbane but kind of cool?!) and rode our bikes around to Kangaroo Point, which was really scenic and lovely. We also walked through The Collective Market in South Bank, which had some really cute things, but not really the type of stuff we have money for at the moment. Afternoon was spent doing study (blegh!), but overall a nice Saturday.

Also, the last photo is a tart/cake creation I made during the week. It was a hazelnut dark chocolate tart (but i used almonds instead). It was SO GOOD. The recipe was from VegieHead.com.au and the tart base was amazing, using ground almonds, coconut sugar, coconut oil, raw cacao and slivered coconut. Delicious!