Swimming tour of Brisbane

I’m in Brisbane this week for the Asian Animation Summit - which is fun and lovely way to celebrate wrapping up our most recent project which we delivered to the broadcaster last Friday. The AAS is all about production companies pitching their ideas to potential buyers and investors. So we get to listen to all sorts of fun ideas for TV shows. Some have been great, others creepy, others scary and all of them unique - it’s ben really good so far.

I don’t know Brisbane at all, and so far I’ve only been able to leave the hotel early in the morning, or in the evening for dinner - which hasn’t led to much exploration - however I have given myself the goal of going for an early morning swim in each of the public swimming pools that is within an easy jog i.e <3k from the hotel.  It’s not hard to get up early here as as the sun seems to be  streaming in my window from 4.40am, so getting up at 6am is pretty cruisey and leaves plenty of time for exercise before breakfast.

So here are my reviews of the pools I’ve swum in so far:

Rating : 1 star

Cost: ?

Rating : 4 stars

Cost: $5.40

Only 1k away, this pool was delightful in the sunny brisbane morning. The medium lane had 4 or 5 swimmers but we were all moving at the same pace so it didn’t feel busy.

Rating : 3.5 stars

Cost: $5.40

Distance Swum 1.4k (I got up a bit earlier today!)

This pool was clearly a bit older than Centenary Pool - that’s ok as there’s a feeling of history about it. it was around 2k each way from the hotel and I must admit that the journey wasn’t quite as pleasant - My route passed by lots of closed shops and seedy night venues and patrons thereof..  Also there was a guy swimming breastroke in the fast lane. What’s with that?

Otherwise pretty good. 

Tomorrow I’m going to try the Queensland Uni pool at Garden Point. That means I’ll get to run through the botanical gardens which I’m already looking forward to.