Unique Things Tourists Can Experience Only in Brisbane

Occupying pride of place in South Bank Streets Beach offers Brisbane vacationers the rare opportunity to enjoy beachfront activities in the middle of the Central Business District. As a manmade beach, Streets Beach is a safe, lifeguard serving beach hub for the masses. Made up of nearly 4000 cubic meters and an additional 70 tonnes of sand the beach is no ordinary recreational hotspot in Brisbane. Open all week long the beach contains the water equivalent of not one but five Olympic scale swimming pools with palm trees and exotic plants also thrown in for maximum effect. Visitors based at iStay River City or other hotels Brisbane CBD counts among its top accommodation providers will have easy access to the beach.

As the pride and joy of Brisbane's culinary scenes the Eat Street Markets are unlike any other food market Down Under. Made up of a series of food trucks visitors will not be able to find the F&B vendors in a single location, but instead travel around the city's various Eat Street Markets to sample the culinary delights available. Brisbane's West End is home to the popular Boundary Street Markets while the Portside Wharf houses its own Eat Street Markets, the most expansive in all of Brisbane. South Bank is home to the Boundary Street Markets which are also among the city's top Eat Street Markets which are housed in more than sixty shipping style containers.

Often described as one of the most rewarding activities visitors can enjoy on a Brisbane vacation feeding dolphins is a unique adventure families can enjoy together on Moreton Island. Located within close range of Brisbane the pristine island is home to a large number of bottlenose dolphins. The dolphin families who frequent the island have been raised by hand feeding since the first dolphin dubbed Beauty came to the island to receive meals regularly in the 1990's. Stemming from the same family tree the bottlenose dolphins that come to the shores of Moreton Island National Park come sunset also have names and visitors can get up close and personal with the friendly mammals as well.

Home to countless art galleries and museum spaces such as the Queensland Museum and the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane is also home to one of Australia's most popular outdoor art galleries. A brainchild of The Pillars Project this art space is located in the large underpass beneath the South Brisbane railway line. Lined with 7m tall pillars the unusual art gallery showcases the work of local street artists that use the pillars as their canvas.

Named Cork and Chroma this wonderfully themed drinking hole offers those with artistic talent and tendencies to let lose their creative spirits while sipping on the best vintages in town. Offering patrons the chance to brush up on their painting skills and strokes an instructor will guide the amateur painters into creating a work of art while enjoying a bottle of fine wine from Cork and Chroma's cellar.