P is for Passage (updated 27th April)

Okay, as with many other days P is a little tenuous. Passage on a river cruise? Is that a Plausible use of English? If I was feeling lazy I'd just use presentation, but where is the fun in that? 

Conference Day 5: last day today. 

The day started a little later at 8:50am, helpful to give me time to check-out of my conference hotel..

Our first presentation was a Plenary (oh another P) which was excellent. Loads of interesting science today about islet transplants, including some clinical work and some logistical work making donated islets and lab grown beta cells available for research. I wasn't 100% sure I was going to stay for the whole day but some many of the talks were interesting I did. 

Then I had time to check out of hotel 2 and into hotel 3 which I am paying for myself and is 5 mins walk from the station (departing Sunday by train to Sydney). 

Apartment in building 1 was Friday night, building 2 was from Saturday to Friday, building 3 is Friday and Saturday night 😂

By 5pm it was time to leave for my river cruise. 

It started with a rainbow

It turned out the sunset river cruise was more of a nighttime river cruise. But it did come with snacks :0) We headed down river from Southbank.

The headlights of the cars over the bridges were twinkling in the dark.

The river twists so much that you keep changing direction relative to the sun in the west.The river winds around the central business district of Brisbane so your see different sides of it.

 Down river there are waterfront properties, with their own docks.

Then we were heading back again

We finished the tour about 7pm, it did get a little cold on the water with the wind. Nice to know you can feel cold in Australia!