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The ‘Discover South Bank’ trail

One of the two Trixity trails exploring Brisbane, the Discover South Bank trail is a wonderful way to spend 2-3 hours in the cultural heart of Brisbane. Art galleries, museums, restaurants, bars and hidden gems around every corner, no wonder 11 million visitors each year make the journey.

The South Bank parklands were built following World Expo 88. The lovely Arbour, which is 1 km of over 400 curved steel columns creating a walkway covered with bougainvilleas, provides a beautiful shady walkway which you may find helpful at some point in the trail.

The Brisbane sign was originally built for the G20 summit in 2014, it was made out of plywood and was only intended to stand for 4 weeks. In 2015 it was reinforced which is just as well as we reckon if/when you pass it on your Trixity trail there will be people clambering all over it for that must-have holiday snap.

As with all of our trails you can stop the clock every time you enter a correct answer (just don’t request the next clue until you’re ready) which will give you plenty of time to take a dip in the man-made Streets Beach in the picture, well worth it on a hot day.

When you order your trail, you’ll be sent all of the info you require to make the most of the day discovering Brisbane’s South Bank. Here’s a little picture we took at the start point, it doesn’t require a spoiler alert and it won’t help you …. I just thought it was ‘different’. Maybe some of the locals will recognise it?

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Explore Brisbane

Brisbane, the River City, BrisVegas, the capital of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia …. and one of our favourites. As it’s only an hour’s drive away from us this was one of the easier cities for us to create our Trixity trails in, so far, we have two ….

  • Discover Brisbane
  • Discover South Bank

Although it only has about half the population of Sydney, Brisbane gets a huge number of visitors with around 11 million people coming to the South Bank parklands annually – that’s a lot of people wanting to explore Brisbane and hopefully we can help them with one of our trails.

As usual, the first task when setting up the trails was lots of research and even more slogging around on foot – this was in the days before the proliferation of electric scooters which now either enhance your exploring ability or are a H&S menace, depending on your viewpoint.

One of the lightbulb moments for us was finding the free ferry (Brisbane City Hopper) which runs from North Quay to Sydney street (8 stops in total), 7 days a week, every 30 minutes – it’s an excellent way to get around the city and we had to include a short trip on it in each of our trails, just for a stop or two.

With the beauty of South Bank, numerous museums and art galleries, a man-made beach, hundreds of restaurants, bars, cafes and a wonderful sub-tropical climate Brisbane is a wonderful place to take the challenge of a Trixity trail.