In search of an excellent two ship cruise terminal

I terminated this listening experience by quietly suggesting he should abandon his aspirations of becoming a stand-up comedian.

Despite my short campaign for the cruise industry, Labor won, elected an inexperienced fool and slowly installed a lacklustre cruise terminal at the mouth of the Brisbane River next to the Luggage Point sewage farm.

I say all this because recently on a coastal cruise, we called into Brisbane. This caused a torrent of complaints from the 4,200 passengers and crew who had ventured ashore on bus tours to the Gold Coast, Mt Tambourine, Australia Zoo, etc. "We spent most of the time stuck in traffic" voiced the Scottish Arran woman, "Did'nae need a cruise to Brisbane for nonsense that we can get at home!" Most others offered up similar headshaking complaints, that their two hours each way stuck in traffic, was just a waste of time and money.

One Canadian couple, returning from the Gold Coast tour, suggested to me, "They really should have a cruise terminal on the Gold Coast , much closer to tourism destinations and no need for four hours ship voyage deviation in and out of Moreton Bay"

"There's a great idea!" I agreed, pondering about the $35,000 I wasted on corflutes attempting to secure a great cruise terminal nine years ago.

At the Captains navigation lecture the next day, he explained about his wonderful environmentally compliant ship, even telling us that the desalination plant feeds 2,000 tonnes of fresh water a day for the 5,000 persons on board, then added "except for muddy rivers such as Brisbane, where desalination doesn't work and we have to buy expensive water from the shore, as we did yesterday".

So, City of the Gold Coast, buck up your ideas and get yourselves a modern efficient Cruise Terminal that can hold at least two large ships!

Stop dithering around!!